Digital Twins with Rigorous Separation Modelling – Key to Optimising Process Operations

Increasingly, process digital twins are being applied across oil & gas facilities to optimize operations.  These digital twins are usually based on commercial process simulation platforms with a detailed representation of the key process operations.  In upstream, midstream and downstream processing, operators target maximization of facility revenue and profit, without compromising safety or reliability. Process engineering teams will have to build a digital twin which represents all the important unit operations whilst embodying sufficient rigour to capture the fundamental system constraints. Phase separation is a key unit operation in many oil & gas processes – how can that be digitalized?

The presentation will include demonstration of a steady-state production digital twin, showing how it can be used to understand the real operational constraints, and the revenue impact these have on facility operations.  Additional material will touch on dynamic digital twins in production and examples from LNG and Downstream sectors.