Oil & Gas. CompMechLab Experience

CompMechLab research engineers have been providing services for leading oil and gas industry companies in the field of numerical modeling and computation for more than 7 years.

The laboratory has successful experience in fulfillment of the thermal and structural analyses of machines and constructions, ferrules, pressure vessels bottoms and covers, modeling of pipelines, chokes, compensators, plugs and other devices which operate at high temperature and pressure values.

CompMechLab offers services in the field of models development and fulfillment of computational experiments for oil and gas industry:

Analysis of strength and vibration of pipelines and risers:
- Consideration of supports f various types (sliding, spring, frontal);

- Consideration of pipeline route type (overground, underground, underwater);

• Consideration of all possible loading cases:
  - internal pressure;
  - thermal expansion;
  - contacts with bearings;
  - interaction with ground or environment;
  - dead weight of a pipeline structure and of a transported medium;
• Life by load cycles determination;
• Modeling of welded joints including the ones with various defects.
   

Strength computation of vessels under pressure: 

• Consideration of vessel support system, thermal loads and dead weight; 
• Analysis of ribs and chokes; 
• Determination of vessel fatigue life by load cycles.

Computation of thermal and deformed state of pipelines with surrounding ground:

• Ground melting and freezing detection;
• Consideration of various climatic factors;
• Phenomenon of a pipeline displacement by a season change of temperature detection.

Modeling of the rock and pipelines acoustic studies:

• Study of acoustic waves in rock distribution with the purpose of oil prospecting fulfillment;
• Acoustic methods of existence and defects and hydrates in pipelines determination development and computer modeling;
• Modeling of leakage in an underwater pipeline by means of acoustic methods;
• Modeling of functioning of hoop strain sensors for an underwater pipeline control.

Modeling of measuring devices and emitters based on piezoelectric resonators:

• Modeling of viscosity, density, pressure and temperature sensors;
• Modeling of ultrasonic emitters.

Modeling of oil extraction equipment strength and vibration:

• Computation of drowned pumps vibration;
• Detailed modeling of fluid flow in a drowned pipe stage;
• Thrust bearing study;
• Packers deformation and hermiticity analysis.

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Visit of Schlumberger representatives to CompMechLab

On January 15th representatives of Tyumen Production Center of Schlumberger, the leading oilfield services provider, trusted to deliver superior results and improved E&P performance for oil and gas companies around the world, have visited CompMechLab. During this meeting CompMechLab engineers presented the results of the completed 8-month research project on vibrations of the high-speed electrical submersible pump for oil extraction.

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Autodesk to Acquire ALGOR, Inc.

Autodesk, Inc. , a world leader in design innovation technologies, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of analysis and simulation software, for approximately $34 million.
ALGOR's computer aided engineering software is used for product design and development in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer products, defense, energy and utilities industries.
"Autodesk strives to offer manufacturers the most comprehensive and easy-to-use Digital Prototyping solution on the market," said Robert "Buzz" Kross, senior vice president of Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions. "The acquisition of ALGOR will add significant new capabilities to virtually test and predict the impact of simultaneous real world conditions like heat and pressure on product designs."

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CompMechLab Research Projects in Oil & Gas

	Simulation of the freezing halo and thawing of soils contiguous to the North-European gas pipeline as a result of seasonal and technological change of gas temperature
Keywords:	North-European gas pipeline, soil, gas pipeline coating, transient non-linear heat transfer, phase transition, gas pipeline freezing, climatic conditions, gas temperature, frozen layer thickness, frost protrusion, gas pipeline displacement
Software:	ANSYS
Year:	2007
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	Finite element 3D thermal and thermo-structural analysis of the catalytic cracking device for various operating modes of the reactor and the regenerator. Estimation of thickness of elements of structures; static and cyclic strength estimation
Keywords:	Reactor, regenerator, multilevel submodeling, thermal stress state, cyclic strength
Software:	SolidWorks, ANSYS
Year:	2007
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