ERCOFTAC Members €290,  Non-members €430

**Seats are limited**

Background, Objectives and Outcome

In ERCOFTAC, the various scientific and engineering fluid dynamic modelling and simulation processes that underpin the Oil, Gas and Petroleum (O, G and Pet) industry are in place. Our objectives through the 2015 seminar, is to harness these processes and present a two day seminar with a main focus on Oil & Gas Best Practice and Technology Trends CFD. The seminar will capture the industrial, and the academic view. Therefore, the presentations are based around the challenges , current and prospective solutions, as faced by the oil companies, the solution providers, the commercial CFD houses, and academia, in the production and transportation of hydrocarbon fuels in an efficient and reliable manner, under a health and safety framework.

Thus, how accurate, reliable, efficient and trustworthy are CFD calculations, in aiding O&G services to continuously extract more value out of their operations, such as deep water extraction, when the sector is experiencing an ever tighter regulatory carbon environment. Yet, when considering that the level of energy demand in 2050 will be such that it will require similar levels of oil and gas production as today, then we see how critical is modelling and simulation, in particular CFD and CFD-FEA!

A main outcome of the seminar is the creation of an Oil, Gas and Petroleum Special Interest Group(SIG) whose purpose is to maintain a leading and up to date agenda on the topic.

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Speakers

Dr. Marianna Braza, Director of Research, IMFT, France
Prof. Faruk Civan, Martin G Miller Chair, U. of Oklahoma, USA
Dr. Emad Gharaibah, Manager, Flow Assurance, GE Oil & Gas, Norway
Mr. Nestor Gonzalez, Project Manager, TNO, The Netherlands
Prof. Ruud Hennkes, Principal Technical Expert, Fluid Flow, Shell Global & TU Delft, The Netherlands
Dr. Samir Khanna, Modelling Advisor, BP Global, USA
Dr. Per Kjellgren, Principal Engineer, Kongsberg, Norway
Dr. Jasper Kreeft, Researcher Fluid Flow, Shell, The Netherlands
Prof. Nadeem Malik, King Fahd Univ of P&M, Saudi Arabia
Mr. Benoit Mallol, Prod Mgr, Fine/Marine, Numeca Int’l, Belgium
Mr. Alex Read, Dir. Busi. Dev, O&G, CD-Adapco, Houston, Texas, USA
Dr. Bruno Sainte-Rose, Head of Office, Lemma, Paris, France
Dr Benjamin Sanderse, Flow Assurance Engineer, Shell Global, The Netherlands
Dr. Georg Scheuerer, VP Prod Dev Busi Ops, Ansys, Germany
Prof. Martin Sommerfeld, U. Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

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	PROGRAMME
	Monday 9 March 2015
8:20	Registration and coffee
8:45	ERCOFTAC Oil, Gas and Petroleum
9:00	Introduction to CFD Applications in O&G	Dr. E Gharaibah
	Sand Particle Tracking and Erosion Analysis using CFD	Dr. E Gharaibah
10:15	Refreshments
10:45	Simulation Methods for Slug Flow in Pipelines	Dr. B. Sanderse
11:15	Slug Flow and Slug Induced Vibration in Pipes	Dr. P.  Kjellgren
12:30	LUNCH
13:30	CFD for Pressure Pulsation and Flow Induced Vibration	Mr. N. Gonzalez
14:15	Flow-inducedvibrations due to multiphase flows in subsea equipment	Dr. J. Kreeft
14:45	CFD prediction for off-shore applications for simple and complex geometries	Mr. B. Mallol
15:30	Refreshments
15:50	Trends and Best Practice in FSI	Dr. M. Braza
16:40	Heat Transfer with Natural Convection – potential subsea applications	Prof. R. Henkes
17:10	Analysis Led Design for Subsea Equipment	Mr. A. Read
17:40	CFD Applications and Challenges in Oil & Gas	Dr. S. Khanna
18:35	Brief Q&A

	Tuesday 10 March 2015
8:45	Coffee
9:00	Simulation of Multi-Phase and Buoyant Flows in Oil and Gas Applications	Dr. G Scheuerer
9:45	Industrial Turbulent Multi-Phase Flows	Dr. B. Sainte Rose
10:15	Refreshments
10:45	Multiphase flow characterization and summary of numerical methods.	Prof. M. Sommerfeld
	Numerical calculation of dispersed multiphase flows for technical processes	Prof. M. Sommerfeld
12:15	LUNCH
13:15	Flow Assurance and Gelation of Oil in Sub-sea Oil Pipelines	Prof. F Civan
14:15	New Approaches to Transport Modelling in Oil & Gas Reservoirs	Prof. N. Malik
14:50	Refreshments
15:10	Round Table Discussion – ERCOFTAC Special Interest Group O,G, &Pet	All
16:00	Close Seminar

Travel & Accommodation

TNO, The Netherlands

Stieltsjesweg 1, NL 2628, CK Delft

Hotels in Delft, and near TNO

Hotel Bridges House

Hotel Royal Bridges