Method and device for neutralizing, by controlled gas injection, the
formation of liquid slugs at the foot of a pipe portion greatly inclined
to the horizontal or riser connected to a pipe carrying circulating
multiphase fluids such as hydrocarbons.Flow rate control is essentially
obtained by injecting, at the base of the riser, a volume of gas
proportional to the flow rate variation with time of the gas phase of the
circulating fluids, and preferably substantially equal thereto, when this
variation is positive. This action can be completed by modulating the
injected gas flow by a quantity proportional to the flow rate variation
of the liquid phase of the circulating fluids.Applications: offshore
hydrocarbon production control for example.