Program Agenda:
1100–1130 Registration and Networking
1130–1300 Lunch
1145–1200 Technical Section Updates
1200–1300 Presentation and Q&A
Speaker Bio:Dr. Koh is the William K. Coors Distinguished Chair & Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Hydrate Research at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). She obtained her BSc (hons) and Ph.D. degrees from University of W. London and postdoctoral training at Cornell University. She was a Reader at King’s College, London University before joining the Colorado School of Mines. She has been visiting Professor at Cornell, Penn State and London University. She was a consultant for the Gas Research Institute in Chicago and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Associate Editor of the Society for Petroleum Engineers Journal, Chair of the US DOE Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee, and served on the US Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, and on the National Academies NRC committee assessing the US DOE National Methane Hydrate Program. She is also an active member of the joint ASME-AIChE Committee on Thermophysical Properties and organized/chaired/co-chaired sessions. She has been elected Chair of the Gordon Research Conferences on Gas Hydrates in 2018 and was Chair of the International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH9) in 2017. She has established internationally recognized gas hydrate research programs over the last two decades at King’s College, University of London and the Colorado School of Mines. Her research is focused onunderstanding the nucleation, crystallization and inhibition mechanisms and thermophysical properties of natural gas hydrates. She was awarded the Young Scientist Award of the British Association for Crystal Growth, the CSM Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Young Faculty Research Excellence Award (2012), Dean’s Award (2016). She over 160 publications in refereed journals (h-index: 54, 16,800 citations – GoogleScholar), including Science, Physics Today, J. American Chemical Society, and two books, including Clathrate Hydrates of Natural Gases (the “third edition of a best seller” – quote from CRC Press publishers, co-authored with E.D. Sloan).Abstract:
This FTS Luncheon presentation will review selected highlights of the flow assurance presentations given at the recent Ninth International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH9) that was held in Denver in June 2017. The ICGH9 flow assurance sessions were convened in honor of E. Dendy Sloan, in recognition of his Outstanding Career Achievements. These ICGH9 highlights will provide examples of the current understanding, challenges, and approaches of managing gas hydrate solids that can form and plug oil and gas subsea flowlines. Gas hydrates present a major flow assurance problem to the petroleum industry during subsea oil and gas production and operations. This talk will also discuss, within the context of current developments and knowledge-gaps in gas hydrates in flow assurance, the developments performed over the last decade in the Colorado School of Mines, Center for Hydrate Research. The mechanisms of gas hydrate plug formation in different pipeline scenarios, including oil, water, and gas-dominated systems, as well as partially dispersed systems will be reviewed. Development of this mechanistic insight is based largely on multi-scale experimental measurements. This fundamental understanding is being incorporated into engineering tools that can enable the flow assurance engineer to predict if, when, and where hydrates will form, and to formulate possible mitigation strategies.
Acknowledgements: Funding and support is acknowledged from the CSM Hydrate Center Industry Consortium and Adolf Coors Foundation. Special thanks to ICGH9 and the CSM Hydrate Busters (past and present), the talented students, postdocs and staff in the Hydrate Center.
“Selected Highlights from the Ninth International Conference 2017 on Gas Hydrates Management in Flow Assurance,”
Carolyn A. Koh, Jefferson L. Creek, Jose Dapena, Sijia Hu, Hao Qin, Ahmad A.A. Majid, Davi C. Salmin, E. Dendy Sloan, Vishal Srivastava, Yan Wang, Luis E. Zerpa
Center for Hydrate Research, Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401