The Systems Induction Distributed Low Temperature Heating and Their Application in the Oil and Gas Industry

Abstract

To improve the energy efficiency of the processes of keeping up the temperatures and heating technological facilities in the oil and gas industry by reducing electricity consumption, the development and introduction of modern technologies and equipment is needed of electroheating. To such means of electroheating includes low-temperature induction heating, which provides a guaranteed increase in quantitative and qualitative production indicators, which can significantly reduce the cost of production, which is important to save energy resources especially with increased tariffs. Various aspects of the development of such induction heating systems are discussed, with a particular focus on ensuring the safety and automation of installations used in the oil and gas industry. The issues of using distributed induction heating in the oil industry are considered using the example of the induction method for oil and gas producing wells with the aim of facilitating the production of highly viscous oil, eliminating tar-tar deposits and preventing the formation of hydrate-paraffin plugs. The results of modelling the heating of the inductor - tubing system at various positions of the load-bearing and non-load-carrying cable-inductor are presented. During the simulation, data were obtained on the temperature of the oil product were obtained under various oil production conditions.