Simcenter Flomaster for oil and gas fact sheet

This three-page fact sheet shows how Simcenter FloMaster, a thermofluid system simulation tool, is applied to oil and gas facilities. It focuses on the system-level questions engineers face in this sector: pressure surge, pressure drop, flow rate, temperature and response time across normal and abnormal operating conditions.

What the document covers

• Solver capabilities: incompressible, compressible and two-phase flow, in steady state and transient
• Injection systems, including checking well pressure during water hammer events such as emergency shutdown
• Pressure relief systems for gas, with the Flow Balancing module used to size orifices and identify choked flow
• Thermal systems in process plants, from preheating utility streams to standby emergency cooling
• Loading and unloading from offshore platforms, FPSOs and storage vessels, and long transmission pipelines with large elevation changes
• Modelling drag reducing agents (DRA), including friction reduction and degradation along the pipeline

It also lists advanced pipe models for non-Newtonian flow, 3D CAD and GIS import, and executable digital twins for operations and training.

Who it is for

Written for process, pipeline and facilities engineers in upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas who size pipes, pumps and valves or assess surge and thermal behaviour.