Heavy crude oil processing offshore FPSO

[compo]

Offshore crude oil processing. Does anyone have any actual operating experience good or bad of installing a heat exchanger at the front end of the crude stabilisation process, basically heating oil/produced water and associated gas (upstream of the primary separator/slug catcher).

 

[Elvie]

But what's your question Compo?What type of HEX are you using or intend to use?Suppose is Shell and Tube and the problem is the fouling?

 

[DrillerNic]

Can you give us some more information please? Produced fluids are usually pretty hot, and even offshore, unless you're at the end of a very long flowline, the temperatures into the first stage can be quite high.

Why are you wanting to heat the fluids? Is your question about heat exchangers upstream of the separator generally, of about the specifics of putting one on a floating production host?