| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L73029/01 |
| Title: |
ROPA: HYBRID METHODS FOR THE OPTIMISATION OF OIL AND GAS GATHERING PIPELINE NETWORKS |
| Principal Investigator: |
McKinnon, Professor K |
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Sch of Mathematics |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
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ROPA |
| Starts: |
01 August 1997 |
Ends: |
31 October 1999 |
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70,114
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A method will be developed for optimizing the productions of oil and gas which can be applied to a very large fields with up to 5000 subsea wells. The methods will be a hybrid, using programming, nonlinear optimization, branch and bound and evolutionary search; each being applied to different stages of the problem. Smoothing techniques will be developed to avoid being prematurely trapped in shallow local optima, of which there are many. The goal is to produce a system to enable the oil and gas field operation to be automatically optimized, so simultaneously reducing operating cost and increasing income.
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