The engineering of petroleum streams

Abstract

In a multidisciplinary petroleum industry using a wide variety of engineering software, consistent and easy transfer of quantitative data related to petroleum streams is a major issue. Making it more difficult is the lack of crossdisciplinary understanding of the source and utility of streams data. This may lead to misuse of the streams data. This thesis attempts to address the key issues of petroleum streams management and how multi-disciplinary engineering can use and exchange streams data in a concise and accurate manner. Some of the research in this thesis has lead to developments in new state-of-the-art software, Streamz, and all of the applications studied in this thesis have benefited from the Streamz software authored by Dr. Aaron A. Zick.