Office/Division Program
OSRR
Project Number
1027
Category
Research Initiation Date (Award Date)
Research Performing Activity
DOE-NETL
Research Principal Investigator
Frank Shaffer
Research Contracting Agency
Description
The objective of this work is to further develop and prove a video based method and associate algorithms for calculating flow rates of subsea oil and gas leaks and blowouts. Video from an ROV can be used to measure the velocity of visible features at the boundary of an oil leak jet. Using the theory of turbulent jets, the velocity of visible features can be used to estimate the discharge rate of an oil leak jet.
Latest progress update
The project is complete. The final report is posted below.