Optimization in Oil and Gas Pipeline Engineering

Huang, Zheyuan; Seireg, A.

doi:10.1115/1.3231187

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“…The work of Rothfarb et al is also discussed in several surveys on optimization in oil and gas pipeline engineering (Mah andShacham 1978, Huang andSeireg 1985) and on network optimization (Golden et al 1981). A more general treatment of the network expansion problem than that given by Rothfarb et al is due to Olorunniwo andJensen (1982a, 1982b): Future expansion times, sizes, and locations are jointly considered in a two-level hierarchical method.…”

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An Oil Pipeline Design Problem

Brimberg

Hansen

Lin

et al. 2003

Operations Research

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We consider a given set of offshore platforms and onshore wells producing known (or estimated) amounts of oil to be connected to a port. Connections may take place directly between platforms, well sites, and the port, or may go through connection points at given locations. The configuration of the network and sizes of pipes used must be chosen to minimize construction costs. This problem is expressed as a mixed-integer program, and solved both heuristically by Tabu Search and Variable Neighborhood Search methods and exactly by a branchand-bound method. Two new types of valid inequalities are introduced. Tests are made with data from the South Gabon oil field and randomly generated problems.

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