Virtual Pipeline Manager™ - Operating the World's Longest Offshore Multiphase Pipeline
26 June 2002
Coming on the heels of successful installations and recent awards for several high-profile projects worldwide, Multiphase Solutions, Inc. (MSi) of Houston, TX, recently kicked-off another project to deliver its field-proven, real-time, on-line pipeline management system for a high-demand multiphase gathering operations.
MSi’s Virtual Pipeline Manager™ (VPM) package will be installed to help manage the world’s longest offshore multiphase pipeline, originating some 370 kilometers offshore. This is part of a multi-billion dollar gas to power project. This time it is in the Asia Pacific, where the package will be used to provide fit-for-purpose, real-time, on-line monitoring, liquids production management, fast forecasting, and off-line trainer/planner functionalities. The system will provide on-line management and optimization of operations addressing a myriad of issues including gas starvation and deliverability issues since the pipeline feeds a high demand gas-fired electric plant. The package will be used by the client in day-to-day management of operations, planning for the new multiphase production network and for operator training.
About Multiphase Solutions, Inc.
Multiphase Solutions, Inc. is an internationally focused engineering, consulting and software systems company. As an experienced life-cycle solutions provider, MSi delivers fit-for-purpose design and operations tools for the oil and gas production, processing, and transportation industry. MSi provides field-proven, cutting edge solutions for a broad range of the most challenging design, operations and control problems for multiphase and single-phase gathering, transmission, and distribution systems.
MSi markets turnkey asset and pipeline management systems providing monitoring, leak detection, control and optimization functionalities. These fit-for-purpose solutions, including the Virtual Asset Manager™ and Virtual Pipeline Manager™ packages, provide a variety of operational and commercial functionalities based on the unique challenges confronting each installation, addressing even the most complex multiphase and single-phase production and transportation issues.
