Patent ID: 6755255
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: E21B,Y10T

Abstract:
A portable flowline and measuring unit for delivering fluids from an oil well to a production facility, the oil well having fluid conducting means for conducting fluids from the oil well to the portable flowline and measuring unit, the flowline and measuring unit comprising:a flatbed trailer comprising a platform, towing means and wheels, the platform comprising a top side and a bottom side, the wheels attached to the bottom side, a production assembly attached to the top side, the production assembly comprising: (a) a choke valve hydraulically connected to the fluid conducting means; (b) inlet piping connecting the choke valve to an inlet on a two-phase separator, the two-phase separator comprising a gas outlet and a liquid outlet, the two-phase separator further comprising high liquid level detection means and low liquid level detection means, said high liquid level detection means producing a first signal upon the liquid level in the two-phase separator reaching a first position, and said low liquid level detection means producing a second signal upon the liquid level in the two-phase separator reaching a second position; (c) gas outlet piping attached to the gas outlet; (d) liquid outlet piping attached to the liquid outlet; (e) a backpressure regulator hydraulically connected to the gas outlet piping; (f) a control dump valve hydraulically connected to the liquid outlet piping, the control dump valve comprising a discharge outlet, the dump valve further comprising means for receiving the first signal and the second signal and means for actuating the valve, the dump valve opening upon receiving the first signal and closing upon receiving the second signal; (g) the gas outlet piping hydraulically connected to a knockout vessel; (h) the gas outlet piping further comprising pressure reduction means between the two-phase separator and the knockout vessel; (i) the knockout vessel further comprising a knockout gas outlet and a knockout liquid outlet; (j) the knockout gas outlet connected to gas compression means, said gas compression means having a high pressure outlet, the high pressure outlet hydraulically connected to gas discharge means; (k) the knockout liquid outlet hydraulically connected to the liquid outlet piping; (l) a spooling drum; (m) power means for rotating the spooling drum; (n) a flexible flowline wrapped around the spooling drum, the flexible flowline having a first end and a second end; (o) the discharge outlet of the dump valve hydraulically connected to the first end of the flexible flowline; and (p) the second end of the flexible flowline comprising connecting means adapted to hydraulically connect to the production facility.