Achieving Indonesian Oil and Gas production to 1 million barrels per day by 2030 using Nanoflooding as Novel EOR Method: Dream vs. Reality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Hendraningrat
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil Price ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Nano Size ◽  
Production Target

In low oil price environments, conducting affordable enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects can be very challenging. One item of interest for successful future EOR should be in how produced fluids are treated and how to achieve cost-efficiency. Nanoflooding, is an emerging EOR technique, which has attracted deployment in recent years. Meanwhile, Indonesia continues to progress towards the national oil and gas production target of one million barrels per day by 2030. This paper presents the observation of opportunities and challenges of using nanoflooding to enable oil and gas production in Indonesia to achieve its desired targets. The study began by mapping the pain points in major oilfields in Indonesia. We observed and discussed the advantage and limitation of traditional mature EOR techniques, status, and ongoing application of EOR in Indonesia. Then, we briefly explained the main reasons why nanoflooding can be considered for future implementation in accelerating oil production in Indonesia, including a discussion about a successful pilot test. As an emerging EOR technique, nanoflooding can be considered as a cost-efficient technique. Silica-based nanofluid can be accessed in a cost-efficient manner and can be executed from an implementation standpoint considering surface facilities. The mechanism that is introduced can help to displace incremental oil more effectively since it can go inside pore throats due to the nano-size. We observed several recognized benefits and challenges to deploy nanoflooding in Indonesia. Based on this study, nanoflooding is very attractive and has potential to be implemented.

scholarly journals A REVIEW OF NANOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
B.M. Das ◽  
D. Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Drilling Fluids ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Exploration Drilling

Nanotechnology encompasses the science and technology of objects with sizes ranging from 1 nm to 100 nm. Today, exploration and production from conventional oil and gas wells have reached a stage of depletion. Newer technologies have been developed to address this problem. Maximum oil production at a minimum cost is currently a huge challenge. This paper reviews nanotechnology applications in the oil and gas production sector, including in the fields of exploration, drilling, production, and waste management in oil fields, as well as their environmental concerns. The paper reviews experimental observations carried out by various researchers in these fields. The effect of various nanoparticles, such as titanium oxide, magnesium oxide, zinc oxide, copper oxide, and carbon nanotubes in drilling fluids and silica nanoparticles in enhanced oil recovery, has been observed and studied. This paper gives a detailed review of the benefits of nanotechnology in oil exploration and production. The fusion of nanotechnology and petroleum technology can result in great benefits. The physics and chemistry of nanoparticles and nanostructures are very new to petroleum technology. Due to the greater risk associated with adapting new technology, nanotechnology has been slow to gain widespread acceptance in the oil and gas industries. However, the current economic conditions have become a driving force for newer technologies.

There is no easy solution to Cuba’s fuel challenges

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil Price ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Generating Capacity ◽  
Major Producer

Subject Cuba's energy troubles. Significance With a previously generous Venezuela facing economic crisis and the United States tightening sanctions, Cuba’s ability to augment its limited domestic oil and gas production is severely constrained. It lacks the export earnings to invest in new technologies and power generating capacity that could ease its fuel supply problems. Russia and China have spoken of offering assistance, but neither is inclined to provide handouts in the absence of commercial returns. Impacts Cuba has tried to trade more with Algeria and Angola but remains vulnerable to international oil price shifts. As a major producer of both sugar and biofuels, Brazil could provide a model for Cuba’s biofuel plans. Cubans are resilient and accustomed to hardship; the country’s looming economic troubles are unlikely to trigger serious unrest.

scholarly journals Optimizing productivity in oil rims: simulation studies on horizontal well placement under simultaneous oil and gas production

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwasanmi Olabode ◽  
Sunday Isehunwa ◽  
Oyinkepreye Orodu ◽  
Daniel Ake
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Gas Oil ◽  
Reservoir Properties ◽  
Well Placement ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Oil Rim

AbstractThin oil rim reservoirs are predominantly those with pay thickness of less than 100 ft. Oil production challenges arise due to the nature of the gas cap and aquifer in such reservoirs and well placement with respect to the fluid contacts. Case studies of oil rim reservoir and operational properties from the Niger-Delta region are used to build classic synthetic oil rim models with different reservoir parameters using a design of experiment. The black oil simulation model of the ECLIPSE software is activated with additional reservoir properties and subsequently initialized to estimate initial oil and gas in place. To optimize hydrocarbon production, 2 horizontal wells are initiated, each to concurrently produce oil and gas. Well placements of (0.5 ft., 0.25 ft. and 0.75 ft.) are made with respect to the pay thickness and then to the fluid contacts. The results show that for oil rim with bigger aquifers, an oil recovery of 8.3% is expected when horizontal wells are placed at 0.75 ft. of the pay thickness away from the gas oil contact, 8.1% oil recovery in oil rims with larger gas caps with completions at 0.75 ft. of the pay zone from the gas oil contacts, 6% oil recovery with relatively small gas caps and aquifer and 9.3% from oil rims with large gas caps and aquifers, with completions at mid-stream of the pay zone.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS OF INCREASING OIL RECOVERY OF FIELDS IN THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.А. Умаев ◽  
А-М.Б. Измаилов ◽  
Т-А.У. Мусаев ◽  
А.Ш. Халадов
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Reservoir Properties ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
The North ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
The Impact

Наряду с совершенствованием эксплуатации скважин и повышением продуктивности за счет работ по воздействию на призабойную зону пласта, одним из главных вопросов является повышение нефтеотдачи пласта. Актуальность этих вопросов не вызывает сомнения применительно к месторождениям Северного Кавказа. Особенные геологическиеусловия присущие продуктивным пластам Чеченской республики (большая глубина залегания, высокая температура и давление, неоднородность коллекторских свойств и т.д.) затрудняют или полностью исключают возможность применения известных методов физико-химического воздействия на пласты с целью интенсификации отборов нефти и повышения нефтеотдачи. На нефтегазодобывающих объектах ЧР применялись основные физико-химические, тепловые и гидродинамические методы повышения нефтеотдачи пластов Along with improving the operation of wells and increasing productivity due to the work on the impact on the bottomhole formation zone, one of the main issues is the increase in oil recovery. The relevance of these issues does not raise doubts in relation to the fields of the North Caucasus. The special geological conditions inherent in the productive formations of the Chechen Republic (large depth, high temperature and pressure, heterogeneity of reservoir properties, etc.) make it difficult or completely exclude the possibility of using known methods of physicochemical treatment of formations in order to intensify oil production and increase oil recovery. The main physical, chemical, thermal and hydrodynamic methods of enhanced oil recovery were used at oil and gas production facilities in the Chechen Republic

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF APPLICATION OF HORIZONTAL WELLS WITH MULTISTAGE FORMATION HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS IN THE FIELDS OPERATED BY GASPROMNEFT-NNG

2016 ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
A. A. Kononenko ◽  
K. A. Kononenko
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Economic Problem ◽  
Oil Consumption ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Continuous Growth

The characteristic feature of the present-day development of oil industry of Russia is a transition of many developed fields to a stage of declining production of hydrocarbon raw materials. At a continuous growth of oil consumption the mineral resources are exhausted which determines a need in solving the major economic problem formulated in the document «Power strategy of Russia for the period till 2030», i.e. ensuring high volumes of oil and gas production and increase of the oil recovery factor by 35-37 %. Currently, search for and development of new technologies and implementation of advanced methods of enhanced oil recovery will lead to improvement of the efficiency of the Russian energy sector, in particular, the fields developed by JSC «Gazpromneft-NNG».

Removing scale-forming cations from produced waters

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Shafer-Peltier ◽  
Colton Kenner ◽  
Eric Albertson ◽  
Ming Chen ◽  
Stephen Randtke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Produced Water ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Production Water ◽  
Produced Waters

The formation of precipitates (scales) during reinjection limits the reuse of oil and gas production water (produced water) for additional oil recovery.

On the Application of Well Stimulation Method in Improvement of Oil Recovery

2015 ◽  
Vol 735 ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdoullatif Gharibi ◽  
Mansoor Zoveidavianpoor ◽  
Farshad Daraei Ghadikolaei
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil Well ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Well Stimulation ◽  
Stimulation Method

Hydraulic Fracturing, Proppant, Acid FracturingAbstract. Increase in the price of oil and gas during recent years have motivated oil and gas companies to focus on the methods that lead to increasing in the oil and gas production. Oil well stimulation as one of these methods includes a variety of operations that performed to improve productivity of the well. The main objective of a stimulation treatment is to increase the rate at which the formation delivers hydrocarbons naturally. Today’s well stimulation method is converted to the appropriate method in the oil and gas industry to maintain or increase of well productivity. Injection of acid to partially dissolve the rock, and hydraulic fracturing to split the rock and prop it open with proppant are two common techniques for stimulating of the wells. Deciding about selection of the best method for stimulation of the wells is related to the comprehensive evaluation of capabilities of each technique and conditions which are governed on specific job intended. In this article, we are trying to present a description about well stimulation method, methods that are employed to execute well stimulation, and application of these different techniques for stimulating of wells.

Designing Oil and Gas Exploration Strategy For The Future National Energy Sustainability Based on Statistical Analysis of Commercial Reserves and Production Cost in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Ahmad Abdul Azizurrofi ◽  
Dian Permatasari Mashari
Keyword(s):  
Production Cost ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
National Level ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil Price ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Energy Investment ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
The Future

Indonesia's declining oil production and rising domestic oil consumption have been a big issue for the last few decades which has turned Indonesia into a net oil importer from 2004 onward. The lack of exploration activities and other investments in oil and gas sector have resulted in the decline of Indonesia's oil production. This condition is a result of the plunge of global oil price which has fallen to its lowest level, i.e., US$43.14/Bbl (average oil price in 2016) over the last 12 years. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the distribution of oil and gas production in Indonesia along with the production cost. This analysis will allow investors to find and map working areas in Indonesia with potential commercial reserves while maintaining the lowest possible production costs. The approach of this empirical study is to divide Indonesia into 6 (six) geographical areas, namely Sumatera, Natuna Sea, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua. We have collected relevant data about commercial reserves and production cost from existing working areas. Our preliminary results depict that Kalimantan has the highest commercial reserves (i.e., 18.60 MMBOE per contract area) and Papua has the lowest production cost (i.e., US$3.24/BOE). Sulawesi, meanwhile, has the lowest commercial reserves (i.e., 5.39 MMBOE/Contract Area) and Natuna has the highest production cost (i.e., US$16.46/BOE). In summary, this study has shown that Eastern area of Indonesia might hold more oil and gas reserves which can be further managed by Contractor for the benefit of the Country. This study also recommends the Government of Indonesia to be aware of the condition of each working areas to maintain a sustainable oil and gas production on a National level and create attractiveness for investors in the future. Keywords: Commercial reserves, cost per barrel, energy, investment, production cost, working areas.

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