One of the major challenges of offshore oil production is to ensure a regular flow from the reservoir to the production processing unit. Among the phenomena that may hamper this task is the establishment of slug flow in the production riser, characterized by periodic oscillations of large amplitude in the system flow rates, which reduce the efficiency of the separation plant, subject equipment to cyclical fatigue and cause serious process instabilities. For this reason, several solutions that aim at avoiding the formation of slugs or, at least, mitigating their consequences have been developed in the last decades. Among the most promising solutions are controllers that prevent the formation of slugs by actively manipulating the choke valve and controllers that dampen the slugs in the vessels of the separation plant. In this work, these control strategies are revisited from perspective of intelligent control, allowing the obtainment of results beyond the reach of linear controllers. In addition to a computational model that comprises a production system from the well to the separation vessel, two intelligent controllers were developed in this work. One of them is a hybrid Fuzzy-PID anti-slug controller that is capable of suppressing slugs even in systems without submarine measurements available and with slow choke valve. The other one is a fuzzy slug damping controller, optimized by a genetic algorithm, with high slug attenuation capacity and able to maintain the level within a specified range. Both controllers are tested in several scenarios and have their results compared to those obtained by linear controllers.