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Conference review Best practices in developing unconventional resources was one of the main themes during the 2012 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), held in San Antonio in October. The conference brought together 11,095 oil and gas professionals from around the world, making it among the top five highest attended ATCEs. The technical program represented all six SPE technical disciplines with an expanded focus on the projects, facilities, and construction (PFC) discipline. New PFC sessions, including a special panel dinner on megaprojects, were part of SPEโs yearlong emphasis on the discipline. Mondayโs opening general session addressed the eventโs unconventional theme with a panel of experts discussing the technological and financial challenges associated with unconventional oil and gas resources. David Hobbs, chief energy strategist at IHS CERA, moderated the panel that consisted of Mark Albers, senior vice president of ExxonMobil; Timothy Dove, president and chief operating officer of Pioneer Natural Resources; Steve Holditch, director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute; and David Lesar, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president of Halliburton. The rush to develop unconventional resources has been an unstructured, chaotic, often costly learning experience that is still in its early days, according to the panelists. Ultimately, the opportunity to develop resources once seen as impossible to produce is likely to be an industry-changing experience. โIt is about transforming an entire industry to operating in a new and dynamic environment,โ said Mohammed Al-Qahtani, vice president of petroleum engineering at Saudi Aramco, during his introduction to the panel discussion on making unconventional resources conventional. The changes they described range from how engineers develop fields to what they say about what they do. The furor over fracturing has forced the industry to address critics who say the technique is a threat to water supplies. โWe need to educate the public to the risks and how we are managing them,โ Albers said. The push to maximize profits and minimize costs has altered relationships as companies consider whether the traditional division of labor makes sense. โIt is a business free-for-all,โ with oil companies buying and running rigs and service companies taking on reserves, said Lesar. The US has become a magnet for exploration and production professionals from around the world because of the boom in unconventional resources, said Holditch. While the United States is seen as a university for those looking to learn shale, much remains to be learned. A favorite phrase among the panelists was, โIt is early days.โ
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- North America > United States > Gulf of Mexico > Central GOM > East Gulf Coast Tertiary Basin > Green Canyon > Block 826 > Mad Dog Field (0.99)
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Wood Group completed Short time scales, high levels of scrutiny, and the design, and the Heerema Fabrication Group started compliance with standards contribute to the trend of the fabrication early last year at its yard in Hartlepool, UK larger and more complex engineering problems. Two huge hinge pins engage Andrew platform in the North Sea, 230 km northwest the process module into the docking hooks, allowing the of Aberdeen. The unit will process oil and gas from the module to sit alongside the existing platform. The module is Kinnoull and Andrew Lower Cretaceous reservoirs. The then tied back and held into position with 40 to 60 tons of Kinnoull field is one of three reservoirs being developed as additional steelwork to become one complete structure.
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- South America > Peru > Tumbes Department > Tumbes Basin > Block Z-1 > Corvina Field > Zorritos Formation (0.99)
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Testing of the CFZ process began at the Shute Creek facility in early 2012. While the total gas reserves associated with the complex sour gas fields are huge, the commercial development rates remain relatively low because of technical challenges and environmental restrictions. (Figure 1). The separation yielded a gas product stream with as low for use in reinjection for enhanced oil recovery. This feature could make data will allow the scale-up of the CFZ facilities to handle carbon capture and storage more economical.
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Very heavy oil is defined as density differences that decrease the the oil becomes more difficult. Physical below 14 API, and extra heavy oil is forces needed for separation of water properties of the crude oil, such as API 11 API and below. Known problematic droplets, higher crude oil viscosity, and gravity, oil viscosity, and water density, crude oils include Venezuelan Merey smaller water droplets resulting from determine the challenges and drive the (16 API), Mexican Maya (21 API), heavy crude oil production techniques. The effect of fines around the droplets, and to achieve effective dehydration. of increased crude oil conductivity interfacial tension. However, there is an upper limit in an AC treater is a decreased Electrostatic fields generate of approximately 300 F for most electrostatic field, leading to less forces that can create conditions dehydration processes.
Asset integrity management encompasses the design, operation, and maintenance of an asset to preserve its integrity at an acceptable level of risk throughout its operating life. Protection of health, safety, and the environment is a critical component of the processes and procedures used to monitor the conditions of offshore surface and subsea facilities and structures.
Gas hydrates form under conditions of low temperatures and high pressures, such as those found in deep water, when ice-like crystalline structures of water form "cages" Carbon dioxide, propane, and ethane can also form hydrates. Because water is conditions at which hydrates form. To avoid salt growth of the hydrate. MEG Independence Hub, the largest natural is normally recovered and recycled, gas processing facility in the Gulf of whereas methanol is used in oncethrough Mexico, began producing in 2007. The project, operated by Anadarko (MEG contained in produced water is for several reasons.
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Barriers often exist that can prevent the of time. If the permit limit exceeds Operators, regulators, politicians, accurate and thorough identification the early stages of production, it and the general public have become and assessment of environmental eliminates the need for having to more aware of and concerned about issues. Robert Holmes, program repeatedly go back to the regulating environmental effects than in earlier manager of oil and gas at Tetra Tech, agency," Holmes said. "We see more clients Few unconventional gas communicate with each other." While improving the recovery of oil production as an example, he said, Environmental concerns have and gas from shale reservoirs, hydraulic "The people doing the subsurface become more widely recognized fracturing has also brought unique assessment may be looking at one by an expanded network of demands for capabilities, capacities, and phase of the project, planning for x stakeholders, including the public.
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- Geology > Petroleum Play Type > Unconventional Play > Shale Play > Shale Gas Play (0.49)
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Options for increasing recovery from offshore reservoirs have taken a technological leap, marking a milestone in the oil and gas industry. Figure 1--Schematic of Statoil's planned subsea gas compression system for the Asgard field. In a 2011 paper (OTC 22411), 40 to 50 km away in 240 to 310 m scheduled for the fourth quarter of the authors wrote that sustaining of water, which produce gas and 2014, with the system expected to go production in gas fields may become condensate tied back to the Asgard B online in the first half of 2015. Aker Solutions Because subsea compressors field's reservoirs will have insufficient said the system will be installed can be installed closer to the wells gas pressure to produce steadily. Using avoid the accumulation in pipelines the same level of power consumption, of monoethylene glycol (MEG) used subsea compressors can sustain higher for hydrate inhibition as MEG flows production rates over longer periods from the Asgard A floating production, of time than the topside alternative, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel resulting in increased total recovery.
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- Europe > Norway > Norwegian Sea > Halten Terrace > Block 6507/11 > ร sgard Field > ร re Formation (0.99)
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Derrick barges lift Apache's EC 336 platform jacket. For nonproducing structures older than 5 years, operators have 5 years to remove the structure. In its latest available data (2010), the BSEE reported that 761 structures need to be removed (Figure 1). Figure 1 Wisch et al. (2004) reported that more than 1,100 platforms were installed before 1974, at which time the 100-year Figure 1 -- The number of structures that require removal storm (a storm that has only a 1% chance of occurring in the Gulf of Mexico. The acquisition of assets also brings with it the Though many of the 1,100-plus platforms met the 100-likelihood that those assets may not have been built or year criterion and incorporated research and experience operated in line with the acquiring company's style, said findings, many still would not meet the API's more sound Win Thornton, vice president of decommissioning at design practices introduced in the mid-1980s. BP. "You are dealing with things that are not that welldefined The Idle Iron NTL, however, is not the single driver of and were not yours to start with." For example, well conditions can present the end of an asset's life, and mitigation of the risk technical problems, such as tubing and obstructions associated with potential infrastructure damage or (fish) in the well, holes in the tubing or casings, sustained destruction caused by hurricanes.
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The Pazflor field, offshore Angola, is the first full-scale greenfield development with subsea separation and boosting to produce two different grades of hydrocarbons from four independent reservoirs. Commissioning begins when construction is completed. The constructed facilities and processes are tested, certified, and verified as ready for the introduction of hydrocarbons for fuel gas, final dynamical commissioning, and startup. The startup phase, defined as the period when hydrocarbons are produced for the first time, is a critical period bridging the transfer of care, custody, and control of the facilities from commissioning to operations. It is the first time that all processes and equipment work together as a system.
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- Africa > Nigeria > Gulf of Guinea > Niger Delta > Niger Delta Basin > OPL 246 > Akpo Field (0.99)
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- Africa > Angola > South Atlantic Ocean > Lower Congo Basin > Block 17 > Pazflor Fields > Pazflor Field (0.99)
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