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Danny Ochoa

Journal of Petroleum TechnologyJanuary, 2023

Danny Ochoa, SPE, works for SLB as drilling domain champion in the Western Hemisphere. He has been active in the oil and gas industry for more than 20 years, with previous assignments in a wide variety of drilling projects in Brazil, Colombia, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Venezuela. Ochoa has been directly involved in the implementation of technological solutions to drive drilling performance in land and offshore operations. He holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Universidad de America at Colombia and is a member of the JPT Editorial Review Board.

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SPE Latin America and the Caribbean

SPE WebsiteJanuary, 2023

Aldo is currently Senior Advisor at FTI Consulting and Senior Fellow at the UT Energy Institute. SPE is looking for members to volunteer on committees that manage various programs and activities. Your knowledge, experience, and participation is needed to help ensure the success of these SPE programs. See the full list of opportunities. There are many local, global, and virtual opportunities that need volunteers.

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Caribbean, mexico government, north america government, social responsibility, SPE Latin America, sustainability, Upstream Oil & Gas

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Government > Regional Government > North America Government > Mexico Government (0.47)

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Management > Professionalism, Training, and Education (0.47)
Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Sustainability/Social Responsibility (0.40)

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SPE Online Education: Operational Troubleshooting of Separators

SPE TrainingDecember, 2022

This webinar is categorized under the Projects, Facilities, and Construction technical discipline. All content contained within this webinar is copyrighted by Graeme Smith and its use and/or reproduction outside the portal requires express permission from Graeme Smith. Graeme Smith is responsible for process engineering and production chemistry for Murphy Oil's Gulf of Mexico assets. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Monash University, Australia, and is a chartered engineer with The Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dag Kvamsdal holds a master of engineering degree from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology.

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australia government, graeme smith, Institute, mexico government, operational troubleshooting, separation and treating, separator, spe online education, united states government, Upstream Oil & Gas, webinar

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Genre: Instructional Material > Course Syllabus & Notes (1.00)

Industry: Energy > Oil & Gas > Upstream (1.00)

SPE Disciplines: Facilities Design, Construction and Operation > Processing Systems and Design > Separation and treating (0.49)

Technology: Information Technology (0.75)

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Slumber No More: Floating LNG Set To Awaken Deepwater Mexican Gas Giant

Journal of Petroleum TechnologyNovember, 2022

US-based New Fortress Energy (NFE) confirmed on 22 November it had finalized agreements with Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex to develop the Lakach gas field offshore Mexico as a floating liquefied natural gas project. Pemex suspended further development of the field, which it discovered in 2007, amid oil price declines in 2014. The field is believed to be able to yield about 10 years of production, with the possibility of extending the reserve life if nearby Kunah and Piklis fields are developed. The area around Lakach, when coupled with these two fields, has a total resource potential of 3.3 TCF, according to NFE. "Pemex is pleased to finalize this strategic partnership with NFE, a leading energy infrastructure company," said Octavio Romero Oropeza, CEO of Pemex. "We believe this partnership will enable Pemex to efficiently leverage our domestic natural gas resources, fulfill Mexico's security of supply targets, and facilitate gas-fired power infrastructure development in the region."

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awaken deepwater, finalize, gas monetization, Giant, lakach, liquefied natural gas, liquified natural gas, LNG, lng set, mexico government, nfe, north america government, partnership, Pemex, slumber

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North America > Mexico > Gulf of Mexico > Sureste Basin > Salina Basin > Piklis Field (0.94)
North America > Mexico > Gulf of Mexico > Sureste Basin > Salina Basin > Kunah Field (0.94)

SPE Disciplines: Facilities Design, Construction and Operation > Natural Gas Conversion and Storage > Liquified natural gas (LNG) (1.00)

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Mexico's Pemex Had a Plan To Fix Its Flaring Problem but Abandoned It

Journal of Petroleum TechnologyNovember, 2022

In late 2016, to avoid racking up fines for burning too much natural gas, Mexico's state oil company Pemex struck a deal with the regulator to invest more than $3 billion to fix its flaring problem at its most productive set of oil fields. But 5 years on, the little-publicized project has been abandoned, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter, and the environmental toll at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico continues to rise. The broken commitment, which has not previously been reported, highlights the struggles of Mexico's oil regulator to rein in Pemex, a powerful state monopoly that is always closely connected to the government. It also shows how, while countries like Colombia, Kazakhstan and Nigeria have cut flaring by investing in infrastructure and strictly enforcing penalties, Mexico is heading in the opposite direction. Pemex opted to drop the plan half way through completion, the three sources said, as low gas prices made it less economically attractive and political priorities shifted to raising oil output.

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Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Climate change (0.34)
Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Air emissions (0.34)

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Lessons Learned from a Prematurely Ended High-Pressure Air Injection Test in a Light Oil Naturally Fractured Reservoir

Gonzalez Guevara, Jose Antonio (Pemex Exploracion y Produccion (Corresponding author)) | Chavez Morales, Silvia Maria (Pemex Exploracion y Produccion) | Hernandez Hernandez, Thalia Iveth (Pemex Exploracion y Produccion) | Gachuz-Muro, Heron (Pemex Exploracion y Produccion) | Lopez Jimenez, Bruno A. (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

OnePetroNovember, 2022

Summary Sixty billion barrels of oil still reside in the matrix of mature onshore and offshore Mexican reservoirs located in the southeast basins after primary and secondary recovery. Capillary and viscous forces are responsible for this amount of oil retained within the pore structure of the matrix (immobile oil). Gravitational forces are not enough to counterattack these forces due to the high fracturing intensity. On the other hand, laboratory testing demonstrates that oil residing in the matrix could be mobilized by the exothermic reaction that takes place with air injection. Air injection in homogeneous heavy and light oil sandstones and nonfractured limestones, at small or large scales during short and long periods of time, is feasible for producing resources technically and economically nonrecoverable by other means. However, to the best of our knowledge, the published literature does not report any application of an air injection project in naturally fractured reservoirs. During 2015, an air injection pilot test was performed in a light oil naturally fractured reservoir in Mexico, referred to as “A” field. The implementation of the pilot test was preceded by its corresponding laboratory study, which consisted of five accelerating rate calorimeter (ARC) tests and two combustion tube (CT) experiments. The analysis of the aforementioned experimental work led us to corroborate that air and oil react at reservoir conditions. Based on the above finding, the pilot test was conducted by injecting air at a rate of 10 MMscf/D with a wellhead pressure of 4,500 psia for 1.5 years, which was followed by a 1.5-year production period giving a total of 3 years for the pilot test. The results indicate that combustion was successfully applied in the reservoir. However, no oil was produced. This paper discusses the results of a prematurely ended air injection pilot test in “A” field and the main lessons learned from it, which could help in the design and its subsequent implementation in other naturally fractured reservoirs.

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doi: 10.2118/212856-PA

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SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering

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Genre: Research Report (0.88)

Geologic Time: Phanerozoic > Mesozoic (0.68)

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Energy > Oil & Gas > Upstream (1.00)
Government > Regional Government > North America Government > Mexico Government (0.68)
Materials > Chemicals > Commodity Chemicals > Petrochemicals (0.46)

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North America > United States > South Dakota > Williston Basin > Buffalo Field > Red River Formation (0.99)
North America > United States > North Dakota > Williston Basin (0.99)
North America > United States > Montana > Williston Basin (0.99)

SPE Disciplines:

Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Unconventional and Complex Reservoirs > Naturally-fractured reservoirs (1.00)
Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Improved and Enhanced Recovery > Gas-injection methods (1.00)

Technology: Information Technology > Modeling & Simulation (0.46)

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Central and South America Energy Updates -- What's the Latest - SPE Energy Stream

SPE Energy StreamAugust, 2022

Aldo is currently Senior Advisor at FTI Consulting and Senior Fellow at the UT Energy Institute. In today's episode, we will look to dive into the latest energy updates surrounding Central and South America, in particular – Brazil, Guyana, Mexico and Venezuela. Whereas Brazil and Guyana have embraced IOCs (international oil companies) for oil and gas developments, Mexico and Venezuela have largely alienated the IOCs and their potential investment dollars. So, have we learned anything here? What else don't we know about where things are going for each of these countries … and why?

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PEH:Oil and Gas Separators

PetrowikiApril, 2017

General The term "oil/gas separator" in petroleum terminology designates a pressure vessel used for separating well fluids produced from oil/gas wells into gaseous and liquid components. Separation is required for stage recovery of liquid hydrocarbons, producing saleable oil and gas streams, well testing, metering, and protection of pumps and compressors. Separators are required to provide oil/gas streams that meet saleable pipeline specifications, as well as a water/solids stream for disposal. Typically, the oil must have less than 1% (by volume) water and less than 5 lbm water/MMscf gas. The water stream must have less than 29 ppm oil for overboard discharge in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

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Industry: Energy > Oil & Gas > Upstream (1.00)

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Production and Well Operations > Well & Reservoir Surveillance and Monitoring (1.00)
Facilities Design, Construction and Operation > Processing Systems and Design > Separation and treating (1.00)

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Information Technology > Knowledge Management (0.40)
Information Technology > Communications > Collaboration (0.40)

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Production risers

PetrowikiMarch, 2016

Large integrated drilling and production facilities employ Dedicated Drilling Risers which have been part of the industries practice for decades.[1] In 1984 Conoco Hutton facility in the North Sea was the first facility to use the top-tension riser system. In the Gulf of Mexico there are several facilities using the dedicated drilling risers. The drilling risers' work as an extension from the wellbore to the drilling rig which is located on the floating production system. The typical riser configuration considered consists of the subsea wellhead connector assembly, tapered stress joint, drilling riser, tensioning joint, riser landing joint, hydro-pneumatic tensioning system and a surface blow-out preventer.[1]

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Facilities Design, Construction and Operation > Pipelines, Flowlines and Risers > Risers (1.00)

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Information Technology > Knowledge Management (0.41)
Information Technology > Communications > Collaboration (0.41)

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Submersibles

PetrowikiJune, 2015

Submersibles have application in a limited number situations. There are only seven submersibles left in existence, all located in the Gulf of Mexico. The water depth range for submersibles is between 9 and 85 ft, with a lesser depth rating during hurricane season. Despite their narrow water depth range, they still serve an important, although limited, segment of the market. Most jackup rigs cannot operate in less than 18 to 25 ft of water, although a very few can move into as little as 14 ft. of water.

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