I hope and pray that you and your families are safe from corona pandemic. please take precautions its dangerous- Further related to question I meant problems like low temperature or high viscosity or water production that inhibits oil to flow as oil is viscous, what other problems can a light crude oil transportation have? can the lighter composition with high flow rate be a problem? as we can have issues in heavy crude oil of paraffins and wax,
In addition to what you already know I think 1. High carbon content can be a problem, 2. High pressure drop in the pipeline can also pose a problem.
Low temperature and high pressure conditions in the pipeline in presence of water and light hydrocarbon gases result in formation of gas hydrates. These gas hydrates result in difficult to remove blockages in the pipeline which further result in loss of production, manpower and time.
Deposition of solids that might lead to very high pressure drops, initiation of corrosion in those locations where deposition has occurred are then possible. Lighter crudes carrying capacity tends to be lower resulting in solid's dropping from the main stream. I hope it helps
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