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Oil & Gas

Optimize Flow. Refine Separation. Mitigate Risk.

Datacor’s advanced process simulation software suite guides engineers to optimize production while meeting safety and sustainability goals.
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Engineering Simulation Tools

Design and troubleshoot multiple levels of your engineering projects with Datacor’s suite of simulation software.

CHEMCAD

Modern chemical process simulation software designed with the engineer's workflow in mind to help efficiently identify innovative solutions.

Fathom

Calculate steady-state hydraulic pressure drop and pipe flow distribution in liquid and low-velocity gas piping and ducting systems.

Arrow

Determine the pressure drop and flow distribution, analyze sonic choking, and model real gases in steady-state gas and steam piping systems.

Impulse

Analyze pumping systems for harmful pressure surge transients caused by water hammer.

xStream

Analyze high-speed, acoustic transients that occur in steam and gas piping systems.

CHEMCAD Process Simulation

Model the entire oil-and-gas value chain in one environment

Steady-state and dynamic tools in a single workspace let engineers simulate gas treating, LNG liquefaction, refinery units, flare/relief systems, and compressor or pump transients. A 2,500+ component database, 40+ thermodynamic methods, and 50+ unit-operation blocks deliver rigorous material- and energy-balance results from wellhead to off-sites. API-compliant routines size PSVs, flare headers, and exchangers for regulatory review.
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CHEMCAD Dynamics

Evaluate start-up and shut-down transients

Time-dependent modelling captures temperature gradients, throughput, and control response for refineries, LNG trains, on- and offshore facilities. Engineers can verify permissive logic, evaluate pressure transients, and confirm that critical parameters stay within API and OEM limits before field testing.
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CHEMCAD CC-THERM

Rate and troubleshoot heat exchangers

Shell-and-tube, air-cooler, and plate configurations can be evaluated in clean and fouled states using user-defined or back-calculated fouling factors. Iterative rating quantifies duty loss, pressure drop, and approach temperature to support maintenance planning and retrofit decisions.
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CHEMCAD Steady State

Size flare and relief systems to API 520/521

Steady-state hydraulics calculate governing relief scenarios, aggregate header loads, and predict back-pressures to each PSV. Engineers can confirm Mach number, velocity, and temperature remain within design envelopes to document compliance and avoid undersizing.
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CHEMCAD Thermodynamics

Assess acid-gas treating and hydrate risk

Comprehensive property methods predict CO₂/H₂S absorption, rich-amine loading, and hydrate-formation temperature across pressure, temperature, and composition ranges. Outputs support solvent selection, heat-exchanger duty estimates, and pipeline operating envelopes for on- and offshore projects.
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CHEMCAD Column Solver

Optimize distillation and absorption columns

Rigorous equilibrium calculations determine minimum reflux and hydraulic limits for trays and packing. Engineers can compare feed-stage revisions, condenser temperature changes, and pressure adjustments to maximise throughput without hardware modifications.
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CHEMCAD CCUS Toolkit

Design post-combustion CO₂ capture units

Rigorous mass and energy balances simulate absorber and stripper performance, quantify solvent circulation rates, and predict CO₂ capture under varying flue gas conditions. Evaluating process sensitivity to flue gas composition and solvent rates inform energy-penalty and CAPEX evaluations.
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CHEMCAD Property Manager

Meet property targets for spec compliance

Track and validate key physical properties such as density, boiling point, or vapor pressure across varying process conditions. Build custom oil assays and model compositional effects on properties to meet regulatory and customer specs, support quality assurance, and avoid costly safety or acceptance issues.
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Impulse

Analyze surge pressures

Transient analysis simulates valve closures, pump trips, and relief events, providing time-history plots of pressure, velocity, and cavitation index. Results support the selection of surge vessels, non-slam check valves, and wall-thickness calculations per ASME B31.4/B31.8.
Perform Surge Analysis
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Arrow

Evaluate compressor-station performance

Gas-flow modelling balances suction headers, predicts compressor polytropic head, and identifies optimal recycle settings. Scenario comparisons help reduce fuel consumption and verify that discharge pressures meet downstream contract requirements across seasonal demand ranges.
Optimize Gas Flow
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Fathom & Impulse

Analyze slurry transport

The Settling-slurry module calculates critical velocity, heterogeneous pressure drop, and pump derating for drilling muds and crude slurries. Engineers can size line ID, select pump curves, and estimate erosion rates to ensure long-term reliability and regulatory compliance.
Evaluate Slurries
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Focused Expertise

We work with customers designing Oil & Gas systems across a variety of applications

Results

Field-validated simulations across LNG, pipelines, gas grids, blending skids, and offshore export lines.
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60 % send-out flow increase
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150 s MOV closure time
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P&I Design
×2 ethanol blend increase
Offshore Surge Control
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75 % pressure pulsations

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