Leading Edge Flow Assurance Management Strategy to Optimize the Design and Operations, for a Deepwater Gas Condensate Reservoir, Reducing Costs and Associated Risks Through Integrated Engineering Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Cesar Villanueva Alonso ◽  
Oswaldo Espinola Gonzalez ◽  
Julieta Alvarez Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Potential Flow ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Reservoir Management ◽  
Gas Condensate ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Flow Assurance ◽  
Reducing Costs

Abstract Most operator companies work under a philosophy of responding with mitigation strategies rather than prevention ones to flow assurance problems when they arise. Although mitigation strategies help to maintain a stable production, gas condensate fields require the implementation of proactive techniques to be prepared for future scenarios, especially when it comes to deep water environments, since the combination of the changes in composition of a condensate fluid and the thermodynamic considerations of producing in deep water fields increase the frequency of operational problems and therefore, additional costs and risks. Furthermore, the concept of management is not frequently applied to the Flow Assurance area as much as the concept of Reservoir Management. Analogous to best Reservoir Management practices, this concept can be translated to the design and operation in the flow assurance area to provide more robust and precise analysis. Taking these considerations into account, a proactive approach is required, so that operator companies can better prepare and act in an optimum way. This paper presents a Flow Assurance Management Strategy (FAMS) methodology focused on increasing and improving the response capacity through understanding the behavior of production trends, predicting the come up of potential flow assurance problems. By the implementation of this methodology, we are seeking to operators obtain a full perspective of all the potential problems that will eventually can take place in their fields, identifying, when, where and why they will occur, and thus, allowing to set proactive actions to minimize unexpected potential flow assurance problems. The objective of this paper is to share a detailed methodology, which is intended to apply for any kind of flow assurance problem, helping operators to implement the best solution according to their capabilities and to set a base to homologate the concept of management, additionally, a short case in which an optimization study was carried out is shown for demonstration purposes.

Novel Approach to Enhance Field Development Plan Process and Reservoir Management to Maximize the Recovery Factor of Gas Condensate Reservoirs Through Integrated Asset Modeling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oswaldo Espinola Gonzalez ◽  
Laura Paola Vazquez Macedo ◽  
Julio Cesar Villanueva Alonso ◽  
Julieta Alvarez Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Reservoir Management ◽  
Gas Condensate ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Recovery Factor ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Field Development ◽  
Novel Approach

Abstract The proper exploitation for a gas condensate reservoir requires an integrated collaboration and management strategy capable to provide detailed insight about future behavior of the reservoir. When a development plan is generated for a field, the reservoir management is not performed integrally, this is, different domains: geology, reservoir, drilling, production, economics, etc., work separately, and therefore, an adequate understanding of the main challenges, leading to issues such as an over dimensioning of surface facilities, excessive costs, among others. Through this paper, a methodology to improve the conventional field development plan is described, which contains 4 main pillars: Collaborative approach, Integrated analysis, engineering optimization and monitoring & surveillance. The methodology involves the description of a hybrid workflow based on the integration of multiple domains, technologies and recommendations to consider all the phenomena and compositional changes over time in the whole production system, aiming to define the optimum reservoir management strategy, facilities and operational philosophy as part of the Field Development Plan (FDP). Conventionally, the used of simplistic models most of times do not allow seeing phenomena in the adequate resolution (near wellbore and porous media effects, multiphase flow in pipelines, etc.), that occur with high interdependency in the Integrated Production System. With this methodology, the goal pursued is to support oil and gas companies to increase the recovery factor of gas condensate fields through the enhancement in the development and exploitation process and therefore, reducing associated costs and seizing available time and resources.

Deep Water Reservoir Management Using Fast Turnaround Integrated Reservoir Modelling Workflow

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert-Rik de Zwart ◽  
Jose Varghese ◽  
Prasanta Nayak ◽  
Aloke Saha ◽  
Anna Numpang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Water Reservoir ◽  
Reservoir Management ◽  
Reservoir Modelling

scholarly journals Design of COVID-19 staged alert systems to ensure healthcare capacity with minimal closures

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoxiang Yang ◽  
Özge Sürer ◽  
Daniel Duque ◽  
David P. Morton ◽  
Bismark Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Optimal Strategies ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Alert System ◽  
System Safety ◽  
Reducing Costs ◽  
Restrictive Measures

AbstractCommunity mitigation strategies to combat COVID-19, ranging from healthy hygiene to shelter-in-place orders, exact substantial socioeconomic costs. Judicious implementation and relaxation of restrictions amplify their public health benefits while reducing costs. We derive optimal strategies for toggling between mitigation stages using daily COVID-19 hospital admissions. With public compliance, the policy triggers ensure adequate intensive care unit capacity with high probability while minimizing the duration of strict mitigation measures. In comparison, we show that other sensible COVID-19 staging policies, including France’s ICU-based thresholds and a widely adopted indicator for reopening schools and businesses, require overly restrictive measures or trigger strict stages too late to avert catastrophic surges. As proof-of-concept, we describe the optimization and maintenance of the staged alert system that has guided COVID-19 policy in a large US city (Austin, Texas) since May 2020. As cities worldwide face future pandemic waves, our findings provide a robust strategy for tracking COVID-19 hospital admissions as an early indicator of hospital surges and enacting staged measures to ensure integrity of the health system, safety of the health workforce, and public confidence.

The Well and Reservoir Management Strategy for the Thermally Assisted Gas-Oil Gravity Drainage Project in Oman

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Al-Habsi ◽  
Augustine Ikwumonu ◽  
Khalid Khabouri ◽  
Keith Rawnsley ◽  
Ibrahim Al-Ismaili ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategy ◽  
Reservoir Management ◽  
Gravity Drainage ◽  
Gas Oil

Flow Assurance in Deep-Water Gas Pipelines: Locating Hydrate Plugging Position in a Fast Way

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Yu ◽  
Cheng Hui ◽  
Chao Wen Sun ◽  
Zhan Ling Zou ◽  
Bin Lu Zhuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Pipe Wall ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Flow Assurance ◽  
Gas Pipelines ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Hydrate Layer ◽  
Hydrate Deposition ◽  
Water Gas

Abstract Hydrate-associated issues are of great significance to the oil and gas sector when advancing the development of offshore reservoir. Gas hydrate is easy to form under the condition featuring depressed temperature and elevated pressure within deep-water gas pipeline. Once hydrate deposition is formed within the pipelines, the energy transmission efficiency will be greatly reduced. An accurate prediction of hydrate-obstruction-development behavior will assist flow-assurance engineers to cultivate resource-conserving and environment-friendly strategies for managing hydrate. Based on the long-distance transportation characteristics of deep-water gas pipeline, a quantitative prediction method is expected to explain the hydrate-obstruction-formation behavior in deep-water gas pipeline throughout the production of deep-water gas well. Through a deep analysis of the features of hydrate shaping and precipitation at various locations inside the system, the advised method can quantitatively foresee the dangerous position and intensity of hydrate obstruction. The time from the start of production to the dramatic change of pressure drop brought about by the deposition of hydrate attached to the pipe wall is defined as the Hydrate Plugging Alarm Window (HPAW), which provides guidance for the subsequent hydrate treatment. Case study of deep-water gas pipeline constructed in the South China Sea is performed with the advised method. The simulation outcomes show that hydrates shape and deposit along pipe wall, constructing an endlessly and inconsistently developing hydrate layer, which restricts the pipe, raises the pressure drop, and ultimately leads to obstruction. At the area of 700m-3200m away from the pipeline inlet, the hydrate layer develops all the more swiftly, which points to the region of high risk of obstruction. As the gas-flow rate increases, the period needed for the system to shape hydrate obstruction becomes less. The narrower the internal diameter of the pipeline is, the more severe risk of hydrate obstruction will occur. The HPAW is 100 days under the case conditions. As the concentration of hydrate inhibitor rises, the region inside the system that tallies with the hydrate phase equilibrium conditions progressively reduces and the hydrate deposition rate slows down. The advised method will support operators to define the location of hydrate inhibitor injection within a shorter period in comparison to the conventional method. This work will deliver key instructions for locating the hydrate plugging position in a fast way in addition to solving the problem of hydrate flow assurance in deep-water gas pipelines at a reduced cost.

scholarly journals Demonstrating an integrated pest management strategy in forage- and seed-brassica crops using a collaborative approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 112-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abie Horrocks ◽  
Paul A. Horne ◽  
Melanie M. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Biological Control Agents ◽  
Brassica Crops ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Management Approaches

An integrated pest management (IPM) strategy was compared with farmers’ conventional pest management practices on twelve spring- and autumn-sown seed and forage brassica crops. Demonstration trials were conducted in Canterbury from spring 2015 to autumn 2017 by splitting farmers’ paddocks in half and applying the two management approaches side by side. A farmer participatory approach was used, with management decisions based on monitoring pests and biological-control agents. Farmer and adviser training with a focus on monitoring and identification was carried out. Biological-control agents capable of contributing to pest control were identified in all brassica crops. There was a 35% reduction in the number of insecticides applied under IPM compared with conventional management, negligible crop yield differences, and the type of insecticides applied was different. IPM adoption at these farms was high by the end of the 3-year project with 11 of the 12 farmers implementing IPM across 90—100% of their brassica crops. This project was a starting point for an industry-wide change of practice to IPM, which has become more widespread since its completion.

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