{"id":15085,"date":"2020-02-06T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yokogawa.com\/eu\/blog\/renewables\/co-innovate-multiphase-flow\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:59:37","slug":"co-innovate-multiphase-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yokogawa.com\/eu\/blog\/renewables\/en\/co-innovate-multiphase-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-innovate: Multiphase flow measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is always a pleasure to work with different customers, from different backgrounds and countries. In this case, we had the chance to co-innovate together with METISAfrica<\/a> and a major oil production service company.<\/p>\n

METISAfrica is a distributor and system integrator of Yokogawa<\/a> products, such as our ROTAMASS Coriolis flow meters. They created a multiphase flow measurement skid that measures in line the composition of mixtures of oil, water, and gas. It is called SKID M<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When drilling in an oil well<\/a>, a mixture of oil, gas, and water comes out.<\/strong> Several wells are feeding into one big production separator, which separates the crude oil, the produced water, and the gas for further processing. For the well management<\/a>, it is important to have a clear picture of the composition of each individual well. These are checked periodically by the use of test separators.<\/p>\n

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An ideal separator works like this:<\/p>\n

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The use of test separators is well known, but also expensive and they are rather big for moving from one well to another. Oil producers are looking for more efficient solutions.<\/p>\n

How can you measure all three fluids at once without separating them?<\/strong> This is not an easy task. Integrated multiphase flow meters are very complex devices and usually very specialized in terms of application range. A very good solution is to combine standard field instruments and a computer to a multiphase measurement skid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Benefits of SKID M<\/h2>\n

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With SKID M, developed by METISAfrica with Yokogawa components, it\u2019s possible to measure oil, gas, and water individually without phase separation and without any radioactive source.<\/strong> SKID M uses the Yokogawa Coriolis ROTAMASS TI<\/a> mass flowmeter, the pressure transmitter Yokogawa EJX530A<\/a> and the paperless recorder Yokogawa SMARTDAQ+ GX20<\/a>, which has excellent computing power and a very secure data storage. Rotamass TI has an excellent performance with entrained gas, which is the number one concern in the upstream flow measurement.<\/p>\n

In this video, Ludovic Gelly shows and explains the SKID M:<\/p>\n

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