Optimizing Gas Production from Giant Multi-Reservoir Onshore Abu Dhabi Gas Field by Introducing Wellhead Compressors and Reconfiguring the Surface Network Using an Integrated Asset Model IAM

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bondan Bernadi ◽  
Mahmood M. Douglas ◽  
Hamad Easa Bin Jaber ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed Al Bairaq ◽  
Ihab Nabil Mohamed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Production ◽  
Common Trunk ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Compressor Inlet ◽  
Surface Network ◽  
Field Perspective ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Final Selection ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The giant onshore gas field in this study consists of six stacked reservoirs and has been producing for over three decades. The field has more than 150 gas producing wells and has several wells which have low-intermittent gas production rates. The low production is attributed to weak wells sharing common trunk lines with prolific wells. This study investigates the impact of choke optimization, surface network reconfiguration and wellhead compression to improve the gas production from weak wells after performing detailed analysis of possible root causes from the surface network by using an Integrated Asset Model (IAM) as the digital twin of the field. The investigation begins by identifying weak producers and involves studying the integrated surface network and determining the root causes for backflow and unstable hydraulics. After surface network issues have been recognized, remedial modification will be implemented. The impact of different choke settings on the wells are studied. The final step will be to introduce wellhead compressors on the weak producers. Extensive sensitivity scenarios are performed to identify the optimum compressor inlet pressure for each individual wellhead compressors and the wells which benefit most from the application of wellhead compressors are ranked. The multi-reservoir gas field contains six stacked reservoirs which are producing under depletion mode and share a common surface network. Root causes of weak or shut-in wells due to backflow or hydraulic issues are successfully identified by using an IAM simulation tool. The investigated remediations were simple optimization of the choke settings, reconfiguration of the surface network, and application of wellhead compressors to improve the gas production from the problematic wells. It is observed that the addition of wellhead compressors resulted in the most significant increase and more sustainable production from the weaker wells. Furthermore, the final selection of candidate wells for wellhead compressors can be dictated according to the highest gain from the ranking. The study revealed that the implementation of wellhead compressors will significantly increase the cumulative gas production from the selected wells at the end of field life and will result in positive production acceleration from the field perspective. This study shows that adding wellhead compressors to weak producers can mitigate the production bottlenecks and backflow issues and that higher and more sustainable gas production can be achieved from the weak wells after understanding the primary causes for low/intermittent production from the IAM which is acting as the digital twin of the field.

Study and Application for Corrosion-Resistant Material Selection of Tubing and Casing in Sour Gas Reservoirs under Coexistence of H2S and CO2

2012 ◽  
Vol 485 ◽  
pp. 429-432
Author(s):  
Ling Feng Li ◽  
Xiao Ming Liu ◽  
Zhi Qiang Huang
Keyword(s):  
Material Selection ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Resistant Material ◽  
Gas Reservoirs ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Corrosion Resistant ◽  
Puguang Gas Field ◽  
Sour Gas ◽  
Selection Of

For natural gas well with high content of CO2 and H2S, very serious corrosion in the gas well string is an important factor of gas production system life. In order to ensure the long-term development of gas wells, this paper mainly study the corrosion-resistant material selection of tubing and casing in sour gas reservoirs under coexistence of H2S and CO2 and proposes the optimization idea and technique of tubing and casing material selection. By taking Puguang gas field as an example, this paper optimizes the material selection of production casing for Puguang gas field. By testing, the optimal materials of gas well string in Puguang gas field have good performance of erosion resistance

scholarly journals Incorporating dwelling mounds into induced seismic risk analysis for the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline P. Kruiver ◽  
Manos Pefkos ◽  
Erik Meijles ◽  
Gerard Aalbersberg ◽  
Xander Campman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Site Response ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Fragility Functions ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Amplification Factors ◽  
Reservoir Compaction ◽  
Groningen Gas Field ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn order to inform decision-making regarding measures to mitigate the impact of induced seismicity in the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands, a comprehensive seismic risk model has been developed. Starting with gas production scenarios and the consequent reservoir compaction, the model generates synthetic earthquake catalogues which are deployed in Monte Carlo analyses, predicting ground motions at a buried reference rock horizon that are combined with nonlinear amplification factors to estimate response spectral accelerations at the surface. These motions are combined with fragility functions defined for the exposed buildings throughout the region to estimate damage levels, which in turn are transformed to risk in terms of injury through consequence functions. Several older and potentially vulnerable buildings are located on dwelling mounds that were constructed from soils and organic material as a flood defence. These anthropogenic structures are not included in the soil profile models used to develop the amplification factors and hence their influence has not been included in the risk analyses to date. To address this gap in the model, concerted studies have been identified to characterize the dwelling mounds. These include new shear-wave velocity measurements that have enabled dynamic site response analyses to determine the modification of ground shaking due to the presence of the mound. A scheme has then been developed to incorporate the dwelling mounds into the risk calculations, which included an assessment of whether the soil-structure interaction effects for buildings founded on the mounds required modification of the seismic fragility functions.

Optimizing Tubing and Liner Completion Design to Improve Gas Production from Existing Wells: Case Study for ADNOC Onshore Field Abu Dhabi, UAE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdy Farouk Fathalla ◽  
Mariam Ahmed Al Hosani ◽  
Ihab Nabil Mohamed ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed Al Bairaq ◽  
Djamal Kherroubi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Production ◽  
Base Case ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Production Rates ◽  
Liquid Loading ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Well Production ◽  
Well Completion ◽  
The Impact

Abstract An onshore gas field contains several gas wells which have low–intermittent production rates. The poor production has been attributed to liquid loading issue in the wellbore. This study will investigate the impact of optimizing the tubing and liner completion design to improve the gas production rates from the wells. Numerous sensitivity runs are carried out with varying tubing and liner dimensions, to identity optimal downhole completions design. The study begins by identifying weak wells having severe gas production problems. Once the weak wells have been identified, wellbore schematics for those wells are studied. Simulation runs are performed with the current downhole completion design and this will be used as the base case. Several completion designs are considered to minimize the effect of liquid loading in the wells; these include reducing the tubing diameter but keeping the existing liner diameter the same, keeping the original tubing diameter the same but only reducing the liner diameter, extending the tubing to the Total Depth (TD) while keeping the original tubing diameter, and extending a reduced diameter tubing string to the TD. The primary cause of the liquid loading seems to be the reduced velocity of the incoming gas from the reservoir as it flows through the wellbore. A simulation study was performed using the various completion designs to optimize the well completion and achieve higher gas velocities in the weak wells. The results of the study showed significant improvement in gas production rates when the tubing diameter and liner diameter were reduced, providing further evidence that increased velocity of the incoming fluids due to restricted flow led to less liquid loading. The paper demonstrates the impact of downhole completion design on the productivity of the gas wells. The study shows that revisiting the existing completion designs and optimizing them using commercial simulators can lead to significant improvement in well production rates. It is also noted that restricting the flow near the sand face increases the velocity of the incoming fluid and reduces liquid loading in the wells.

scholarly journals Geoperspective Oil and Gas in the Netherlands – Is there a future?

2010 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Herber ◽  
J. de Jager
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Coal Bed ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Risk Increase ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe impact of oil and, in particular, gas fields discovered in the Dutch subsurface has been very significant. However, 50 years after the discovery of the giant Groningen gas field the Netherlands has become very mature for exploration of oil and gas, and the gas volume left to be discovered in conventional traps is insignificant compared to what has been found already. The total portfolio of conventional prospects held by the industry contains several 100s of billions of cubic metres (bcm), as reported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, but many of these prospects are unattractive to drill because of their small size or other geologically unfavourable aspects. Hence, for planning purposes of future national gas production the risk should be taken into account that the size of the conventional portfolio is overestimated. The major E&P companies have reduced their exploration efforts and the number of wells drilled as well as the size and total volume of discovered gas reserves has seen a steady decline over the last 10 years. Some surprises may still be in store and can occasionally add a welcome addition of gas. But the follow-up potential of new play and trapping concepts has been disappointing for many years now, and it is concluded that this is unlikely to be different in the future. Remaining conventional discoveries will mainly be in small near-field targets that as a result of technological advances made in the last few decades can be drilled with high confidence, despite their small volumes.This leaves the so-called unconventional gas (UG) resources for a real and significant increase in the exploration potential of the Netherlands. UG resources occur outside conventional structural or stratigraphic traps in tight (low permeability) rocks and are of regional or sub-regional extent, without well-defined hydrocarbon-water contacts. The potential for Basin Centred Gas, Shale Gas and Coal Bed Methane is reviewed. As, according to present-day technology, development of UG requires very dense drilling at low costs with well spacing of a few 100s of metres, only the onshore potential can be commercial, even in the longer term.Recent geological uplift is a characteristic for all North American commercial UG developments. Uplift helps bringing the resources close to the surface and facilitates development of fractures, which are essential for achieving commercial flow rates. This significantly reduces the area where commercial UG resources may occur in the Netherlands. In addition, sweet spots, where commercial flow rates and ultimate recovery per well can be achieved, represent only a fraction of the total ‘play area’. The UG plays in the Dutch subsurface remain to be proven, and there is still a significant technical risk associated with these plays, on top of the commercial risk. Therefore, despite potentially enormous in-place gas volumes in these unconventional plays, recoverable volumes are much less. If UG resources can be proven and are commercially developable, their cumulative volume potential is estimated by us in the order of a few tens to one or two hundreds bcm of recoverable gas at best. Finally, as UG resources produce at very low rates and require large numbers of wells to develop, the environmental impact in a densely populated country like the Netherlands is enormous, and needs to be seriously considered, already in the exploration phase.In a mature area like the Netherlands, industry focus should be on technology development to reduce risk, increase recovery, reduce cost and minimize surface impact. Cooperation between Operators to build multi-well campaigns is therefore strongly recommended to reduce mobilisation cost. In addition, government incentives should be targeted at the development phase, in order to increase economic attractiveness for difficult reservoirs, both conventional and unconventional. In this way State and industry will both be able to maximize their returns on the remaining potential for gas and oil in the next two to three decades.

scholarly journals Ways to optimize steppe under of oil and gas production

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
К. V. Myachina ◽  
E. V. Krasnov
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Oil And Gas Field ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Ecological Optimization

Aim. To substantiate ways of geo‐ecological optimization of an oil and gas field landscape (through the example of the Volga‐Ural steppe region).Materials and Methods. The development of directions for geoecological optimization of landscape is based on the authors’ previously developed ideas about the transformation processes of landscape, the formation and stages of the oil and gas natural‐technogenic geosystem development, and the hierarchy and multi‐scale of technogenic changes of landscape.Results. Optimization solutions were developed for the successive stages of planning of oil and gas extraction, operation of an oil and gas natural‐technogenic geosystem field and the end of development and disposal of oil and gas facilities. The main direction of landscape optimization is highlighted and its tasks and principles formulated.Conclusion. Reducing technogenic impact on steppe landscape, its control and regulation is not only a problem of scientific research, but also one of the state of public consciousness and the setting of priorities by management bodies. Methods of reducing the impact and restoringsteppe landscapes can only be effective as a result of implementing a targeted policy of greening education and a corresponding change in public consciousness. 

scholarly journals Environmental problems of the oil and gas industry in Kazakhstan

2020 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 03008
Author(s):  
Turgai Alimbaev ◽  
Kuralay Yermagambetova ◽  
Samal Kabyltayeva ◽  
Abilkhan Issayev ◽  
Zhadyra Kairat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the environmental problems of the oil and gas sector in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors emphasize that for many decades the oil fields of Kazakhstan have developed mainly a raw material management system with extremely high technogenic loads on the environment. It is noted that for Kazakstani economy, oil and gas production and especially their export play a key role in generating income and growth within the gross product. At the same time, the authors point out that the impact of the oil and gas field on the environment in recent years has been characterized by its intensity, diversity and significant scale. The issue of developing new hydrocarbon raw materials deposits is considered, which is accompanied by geological exploration, drilling and construction works, laying of pipelines and roads. The authors come to the conclusion that a strong anthropogenic impact on all components of the environment causes an active change in the chemical and physicochemical properties of the soil, disrupts the hydrological regime of territories, leads to impoverishment and changes in the species composition, structure and productivity of phytocenoses, a reduction in the spatial distribution and number of animal populations. In conclusion, the authors put forward a number of fundamental tasks for solving environmental problems of the industry.

Study of Gas Resources Utilization of Tangguh, Masela, and Kasuri Blocks for East Indonesia Regional Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Tutuka Ariadji ◽  
Luky Yusgiantoro ◽  
D Susanto ◽  
D Sunarjanto ◽  
D Sismartono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Peak Period ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Petrochemical Product ◽  
The Impact

This study is intended to evaluate, analyze and give recommendations for prudently utilizing gas production to maximize regional economic developments. A method to relate sectors and inter-regions, i.e., Inter-regional Input-Output (IRIO) Model, is employed to predict the impact of the upstream potential on the down stream. This techno-economic study examines the allocated gas from three gas field blocks altogether at Maluku and West Papua Provinces, i.e., Tangguh, Masela, and Kasuri, to supply the demands of (1) power plants; (2) fertilizer industries, and (3) petrochemicals industries. This study identifies development processes, investment parameters from pre-construction to operation, implementation parameters, and output parameters, both for the upstream and downstream sectors during 2016-2035. The IRIO model uses the 2010 IRIO Table published by BAPPENAS which consists of 35 sectors and 35 provinces. The shock data used to estimate the economic impacts include those data on infrastructure (CAPEX, OPEX, and supporting facilities), energy consumption (per kWh, per ton fertilizer, and per petrochemical product), workforce, and investments at a particular time. Six simulation modeling scenarios were developed to forecast the future performance of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)/Regional Gross Domestic Products (GRDP), Community Income, and Employment of 4 provinces in Eastern Indonesia. The results indicate that the regional economy could grow significantly by providing electricity first. Hence, the Petrochemical Industry gives more contribution than the Fertilizer Industry. The contribution (compared to BAU condition) increases sharply before taking a peak period and then declines in the year 2025. The best scenario results in a rise of the regional GDP at about 19 percent, wages at about 20 percent, and employment at about 55 percent. Maluku Province deserves the most economic improvement followed by West Papua Province. North Maluku and Papua provinces are not as well-off as those two provinces although there has been an indication of some employment in North Maluku Province. JEL Classification: E23Keywords: Gas resources, Input-Output, techno-economic, East Indonesia

scholarly journals Ecology of the Western region in Kazakhstan: state and main directions of improvement

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 04006
Author(s):  
Тurgai Alimbaev ◽  
Zhanna Mazhitova ◽  
Bibizhamal Omarova ◽  
Kuralay Yermagambetova ◽  
Karlygash Atanakova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the environmental problems of the Western region in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors emphasize that for many decades the oil fields of Kazakhstan have developed mainly a raw material management system with extremely high technogenic loads on the environment. It is noted that for Kazakstani economy, oil and gas production and especially their export play a key role in generating income and growth within the gross product. At the same time, the authors point out that the impact of the oil and gas field on the environment in recent years has been characterized by its intensity, diversity and significant scale. The issue of developing new hydrocarbon raw materials deposits is considered, which is accompanied by geological exploration, drilling and construction works, laying of pipelines and roads. The authors come to the conclusion that a strong anthropogenic impact on all components of the environment causes an active change in the chemical and physicochemical properties of the soil, disrupts the hydrological regime of territories, leads to impoverishment and changes in the species composition, structure and productivity of phytocenoses, a reduction in the spatial distribution and number of animal populations. In conclusion, the authors put forward a number of fundamental tasks for solving environmental problems of the industry.

Measurements of the Cape Astrometric Survey of the Southern Hemisphere

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 515-521
Author(s):  
W. Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Automatic Measuring ◽  
Measuring Machine ◽  
Final Selection ◽  
Selection Of

SummaryA routine has been developed for the processing of the 5820 plates of the survey. The plates are measured on the automatic measuring machine, GALAXY, and the measures are subsequently processed by computer, to edit and then refer them to the SAO catalogue. A start has been made on measuring the plates, but the final selection of stars to be made is still a matter for discussion.

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