The Pipesim™ steady-state multiphase flow simulator is the flagship SLB well and network modeling software for steady-state multiphase flow simulation. Together with the Olga™ dynamic multiphase flow simulator, SLB provides a complete software solution for design and optimization of production systems.
These notes accompany the release of Pipesim 2025.1. The notes describe changes in Pipesim 2025.1 relative to Pipesim 2024.3. This document should be read by all users of the program. The complete program documentation consists of Pipesim help, release notes, and installation guides.
The SLB Software Support Hub provides useful information about the product, and a knowledge base. Please contact SLB if problems or missing functionality are encountered when using Pipesim steady-state multiphase flow simulator or any of its related software tools.
Production and gas lift injection networks combined in the same model
Multi-point calibration of black oil fluid
Pipeline integrity: maximum allowable operating pressure
TUFFP model upgraded to version 2024
Cloud-based model management
PythonToolkit improvements
Multiphase Flow Modeling: PIPESIM employs a wide range of industry standard multiphase flow communications as well as advanced three-phase mechanical models. This model allows to calculate the flow structure, fluid retardation, shape characteristics of material movement, and pressure drop of all stations along the production route.
Modeling Liquid Properties: PIPESIM provides two choices for the user, one is the concepts of industry-standard black oil, and the other is a range of models combining equation states. Depending on the application, users can choose from a wide range of software features to model a wide range of liquids.
Heat Selection Modeling: Predicting heat transfer accurately is critical in calculating the temperature of the liquid properties in the system, the formation of solids, and in principle for all global thermal designs of the system. PIPESIM performs energy balance calculations calculated for a variety of heat transfer mechanisms.
