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Learning control for riser-slug elimination and production-rate optimization for an offshore oil and gas production process

Simon Pedersen, Petar Durdevic & Zhenyu Yang

Slugging flow in the offshore oil & gas production attracts a lot of attention due to its limitation of production rate, periodic overload on processing facilities, and even direct cause of emergency shutdown. This work aims at two correlated objectives: (i) Preventing slugging flow; and meanwhile, (ii) maximizing the production rate at the riser of an offshore production platform, by manipulating a topside choke valve through a learning switching model-free PID controller. The results show good steady-state performance, although a long settling time due to the unknown reference for no slugging flow.

IFAC Publishers / 2014
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