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About Us

Floxpat Petroleum & Energy Services LTD (FLOPES) is a leading oil and gas engineering company specializing in flow assurance consultancy. The company provides petroleum, chemical and process engineering solutions to the international oil and gas industry. Our methodology is to link together key disciplines to provide practical and economic solutions, thus optimizing the decision making process during the critical conceptual phase of a development project. Our strategy is to attract, train, and retain the highest quality engineers, and to develop new standards in modeling software in order to deliver unparalleled development planning to support our customers.


Flow Assurance

From reservoir pore to the downstream facility, flow must be assured. That is where FLOPES comes in – to make sure everything flows. We have the expertise to solve your flow assurance problems.

For flow to be assured, transport energy driving the flow must overcome resistance to flow. With increasing water depth, technical and Flow Assurance challenges increase. This is primarily due to high pressure and low sea temperature. Onshore fields may also experience cold temperature related problems especially in harsh environments such as arctic circle.

Increasing demand for oil and gas compels Exploration & Production companies to construct longer subsea lines in deeper water. This requires new technologies to monitor, operate and maintain production in more challenging environments.

Impediment to flow caused by either fluid phase behavior coupled with the dynamics of flow and or production-chemistry-related issues in the well bores and flow lines has long been identified in onshore or offshore shallow water environments. These events became more severe in deep water environment as the intervention is very challenging from technical and cost considerations. Naturally, these situations demand careful considerations of fluid phase behavior, fluid dynamics and production chemistry aspects at the design phase of field development.

Developing deep water fields requires substantial investment. The cost for a complete development can approach $4 billion. A deep water well can cost as much as $100 million to drill and complete. If well intervention, re-entry or work-over is required, day rates for rigs can cost $500 thousand /day. The high capital costs for deep water developments, the high intervention costs for remediating deep water systems, and the potential economic impacts of deferred production make the Flow Assurance strategy an essential centerpiece of field development plan. The goal of every Flow Assurance approach is to characterize and manage associated risks that can adversely affect hydrocarbon production. The main risks are from deposition of solids in the wellbore and flow lines due to gas hydrates, waxes, asphaltenes, mineral scale, and napthenates. Therefore, at FLOPESs, we focus on minimizing the risk of flow stoppage while transporting hydrocarbons from the pores of source rock to the destination facility.

Mission

To deliver value-based solution to expand our client's oil & gas investments.

Vision

FLOPES will provide pore to process engineering consultancy services to the major oil & gas companies around the world.