Pipeline Integrity Management System™

MSi's Pipeline Integrity Management System™ is a proprietary, dynamic, rigorous multiphase pipeline modeling application designed to assist operators in real-time, on-line monitoring of the operational integrity of single phase and multiphase pipelines and related facilities. It is capable of fully-integrated, asset-wide monitoring of single-phase, two-phase and three-phase flow in wells, gathering lines, major trunklines, and distribution systems and includes the capability to model pertinent topsides or downstream processing facilities, including separators, scrubbers, compressors, pumps, wing valves, chokes, etc.

At the heart of each MSi package is field-proven, multiphase simulation technology that has been in use in real-time, on-line, day-to-day field operations for over a decade. As such, PIMS is not your garden variety, off-line, design multiphase simulator that others have attempted to retrofit for real-time, dynamic operations. The dynamic model contained in PIMS is a generalized, multiphase-flow model designed and built from the ground-up since "Day One" for exacting demands of real-time, real-world applications.

Features

Ras Laffan PIMS™

PIMS offer a very robust, user-friendly simulation platform for a myriad of Fit-For-Purpose real-time applications, both as a standalone package as well as integrated into the Virtual Pipeline Manager™ platform. PIMS is designed to achieve extremely fast run-time speeds (500 to 200,000 x real-time) while maintaining the computational stability needed for day-in/day-out, real-time, on-line oil and gas industry operations, particularly in multiphase pipeline operations.

Each MSi packages are custom-designed to provide full-range of functionalities including accurate real-time information on the hydraulic and thermal conditions, alarm and advise the controllers on events that can jeopardize operational integrity and provide valuable information on potential outcomes of given operational events and scenarios.

With each package, the Control Room Operators are given timely advance on operational issues, providing valuable information that is always at their finger tips to make quick, informed decisions.

Fit-For-Purpose Applications

MSi's PIMS has been used for a number of real-time, on-line applications, including leak detection and location, predicting liquids accumulation and movement throughout a pipeline network, tracking gas/liquids and contaminant/inhibitor distribution and composition, production blending management advisory, accurately forecasting line pack and unpack dynamics, and tracking sphere/scraper position, hydrate monitoring and inhibitor dosage management, etc.

Example On-Line Applications

• LEAK DETECTION & LOCATION
  Fast & accurate size & location, while minimizing false alarms, multiphase and single-phase operations
  
• COMPOSITION & BATCH TRACKING
  Pipeline multicomponent composition profiles, batch size & tracking
  
• LIQUID HOLDUP TRACKING
  Oil/Condensate & water profiles, total pipeline liquid volume
  
• PIG TRACKING
  Launch alarms, arrival time projections & est. slug sizes
  
• SLUG MANAGEMENT
  Provides slug frequency & maximum allowable ramp-up rates
  
• PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
  Provides well-by-well, to asset-wide production advisory & recommendations
  
• LINE PACKING & UNPACKING
  Comprehensive line pack management & optimization
  
• HYDRATE MONITORING & INHIBITOR DOSAGE MANAGEMENT
  Monitoring hydrate formation tendencies, inhibitor advisory dosage requirements & performance
• CORROSION MONITORING, INHIBITOR & CONTAMINANT TRACKING
  Corrosion hotspot monitoring & inhibitor tracking

Example Off-Line Applications

• OPERATOR TRAINING- coupled with MSi's FDG™ package
  
• OPERATIONS OPTIMIZATION & DE-BOTTLENECKING
• ESTABLISHING RAMP-UP LIMITS & GUIDELINES
  
• PREDICTIONS OF DELIVERABILITY & OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINTS
  
• SIMULATED MANAGEMENT OF PRODUCTION OPERATIONS, LINE PACKING & UNPACKING
  
• PROJECTING OPERATIONAL EVENTS, e.g. well-by-well production, startup/shutdown, pig launch times, etc.

Rigorous Model-Based Leak Detection & Location Package
(Multiphase & Single-Phase Operations)

MSi's PIMS-based leak detection systems provide accurate detection and determination of leak location even in very large, complicated multiphase and single-phase networks, while maintaining robustness and high system availability. MSi's leak detection systems provide the most reliable, robust, accurate, user-friendly solution for a variety of operational scenarios.

As mentioned earlier, the dynamic model contained in PIMS is a generalized, multiphase-flow model designed and built for real-time, real-world applications. It is not a single-phase model retrofitted for use for multiphase leak detection operations.

PIMS is an extremely robust, rigorous real-time, on-line multiphase simulation package. All our packages offer full expansion capability to pipeline and asset management systems, providing fit-for-purpose monitoring, control and optimization functionalities.

MSi currently markets the only rigorous, Model-Based Leak Detection System for a broad range of conditions, including multiphase (e.g. two-phase and three-phase flow) and single-phase flow (e.g. gas or liquid pipeline) operations.

MSi delivers each PIMS-based leak detection package, fully configured to detect and locate leaks on the pipeline for "Day One", coupled with our field-proven "finger-print" pattern-recognition technology, ready for the full-range of transient and steady-state multiphase and single-phase operations.

MSi systems employ one model that can be used for single-phase gas, single-phase liquid and multiphase (gas/liquid and gas/liquid/liquid) operations, for full flexibility in case operational conditions changes in various sections of a given complex network (e.g. offshore gathering lines that are multiphase and on-shore single-phase pipelines that may develop into slack line operations).