SPipe

Short description of sPipe tool

sPipe is a simple surface pipeline sizing tool. It calculates pressure drop in oil, gas or water flowlines. Featuring multiphase flow correlations and sensitivity analysis.

Typical applications include

• Estimation of flowrate with defined pressures at inlet and outlet
• Estimation of inlet and outlet pressures for achieving target flowrate
• Selection of pipeline size
• Estimation of mixture velocity

Main features

• Plot of pressure profile vs length
• Result table with pressure, velocity and hold-up
• Sensitivity analysis
• Using prepared PVT models
• Account for elevation

Interface features

PEngTools sPipe

• Save and share references to saved models with colleagues
• Last saved model on current computer and browser is automatically opened
• Choose between Metric units and US oilfield units.
• Save as image and print plot by means of chart context menu (button at the upper-right corner of chart)
• Download report in pdf format containing input parameters, calculated values and plot
• Select and copy results to Excel or other application

References

Type of problem	Correlation	Reference
Oil and water flow	Beggs and Brill	Brill, J.P. and Mukherjee, H. 1999. Multiphase Flow in Wells. SPE Monograph, Vol. 17, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, TX.
Dry gas flow	Adopted multi-step Cullender and Smith	Cullender, M.H. and Smith, R.V. 1956. Practical Solution of Gas-Flow Equations for Wells and Pipelines with Large Temperature Gradients. Trans., AIME 207: 281.