Why North American markets have shifted to spoolable pipe versus traditional pipeline materials and its implications for Australian operators

During the past 12 years, spoolable pipe has become a widespread preference for in-field gathering and injection applications compared to welded steel and stick fibreglass pipelines. It is now broadly used in oil and gas fields throughout North America, with more than 300 end users, including every major operator. To date, more than 25,000 km of spoolable pipe has been installed in North America for more than 450 operators. Fast installation, lower costs, safer installation, immunity to corrosion and low maintenance in service are the drivers for this rapid success. The technology is well on its way to displacing steel or stick glass-fibre reinforced epoxy (GRE) pipe as the technology of choice for lines up to nominal 6-inch in diameter. Compared to a single 8- or 10-inch line, companies are finding having multiple spoolable pipes in the same ditch to be more economical. Field results have demonstrated spoolable pipe’s immunity to corrosion and have also shown how using spoolable pipes can save 25% or more in costs when compared to overall installed costs for welded steel or stick fibreglass pipelines by significantly reducing onsite construction expense, installation time and onsite manpower requirements, including skilled welding personnel.

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Giant and major-size oil and gas fields worldwide in basement reservoirs: state-of-the-art and future prospects

Georesursy ◽

10.18599/grs.2020.si.40-48 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 40-48

Author(s):

Tako Koning

Keyword(s):

Oil And Gas ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Reservoir Engineering ◽

Future Prospects ◽

Economic Data ◽

The Past ◽

Oil And Gas Fields ◽

Basement Reservoirs ◽

Giant Size ◽

Gas Fields

Oil and gas occurs in basement reservoirs in many parts of the world. The reserves of basement fields are as small as one or two million barrels of oil or gas-equivalent such as the Beruk Northeast pool in Sumatra, Indonesia to over 1.0 billion barrels of oil as in Viet Nam’s Bach Ho field and Libya’s Augila-Naafora field. This paper focuses on three giant-size oil and gas fields and six major-size fields. Exploration for oil and gas in basement has been remarkably successful in the past decade with important discoveries in basement in Indonesia, United Kingdom, Norway, Chad, and Argentina. In order to successfully develop basement oil and gas fields and also to avoid costly mistakes, all available geological, geophysical, reservoir engineering and economic data must be closely studied. Also, it is very important to study analogues worldwide of basement oil and gas fields in order to understand why some fields are very successful and others turn out to be technical and economic failures.

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CANNING BASIN AND GLOBAL PALAEOZOIC PETROLEUM SYSTEMS—A REVIEW

The APPEA Journal ◽

10.1071/aj04028 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 349 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

G.M. Carlsen ◽

K. Ameed R. Ghori

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

North American ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Oil Fields ◽

North African ◽

Canning Basin ◽

Petroleum Systems ◽

The North ◽

Oil And Gas Fields ◽

Gas Fields

There are more than 131 giant and super-giant oil and gas fields with Palaeozoic source and reservoir that are similar to the Canning Basin. These include Palaeozoic basins of North America, North Africa, and the North Caspian Basin of Kazakhstan and Russia.The productivity of these Palaeozoic petroleum systems depends on timing of generation and preservation of charge. Thick Ordovician, Permian, and Triassic evaporite deposits played a very important role in creating and preserving the North American, north Caspian, and north African giant oil and gas fields, respectively.The Mesozoic–Tertiary charged Palaeozoic systems are typically more productive than the Palaeozoic charged systems as exemplified by the north African basins.The Ordovician sourced and reservoired giant oil fields of the North American Mid-Continent are also highly productive. Within the Canning Basin, Ordovician sourced oil has been recovered on the Barbwire Terrace (in Dodonea–1, Percival–1 and Solanum–1) on the Dampier Terrace (in Edgar Range–1 and Pictor–1) and along the Admiral Bay Fault Zone (in Cudalgarra–1, Great Sandy–1, and Leo–1).The Canning Basin may be the least explored of the known Palaeozoic basins with proven petroleum systems. The Palaeozoic basins of North America are the most explored with 500-wells/10,000 km2 compared to the Canning Basin with only 4-wells/10,000 km2.The presence of five oil fields, numerous oil and gas shows and the well density in the Canning Basin (200 wells in 530,000 km2) suggests that further exploration is warranted. Critical analysis of the distribution of source rock, reservoir, seal, timing of generation versus trap formation and post accumulation modification for each tectonic unit of the Canning Basin is required.

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