Drilling and Production Platforms for Arctic Offshore Development

1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 182-185
Author(s):  
Ben C. Gerwick
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Lightweight Concrete ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Offshore Development ◽  
Sand And Gravel

Rapidly expanding development is taking place in the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas of Alaska and Canada, driven by the discovery of immense resources of oil and gas and favorable geophysical conditions in adjoining areas. The Arctic regions are dominated by sea ice, from the central polar pack to the pressure ridges and rubble piles that form in the shear zone along the periphery. In the east, adjoining Labrador and Newfoundland, icebergs are encountered. Storm waves and surges during the summer, strong seismicity in certain areas, and weak and construction-difficult soils in many areas combine to make the design and construction of platforms abnormally difficult. Existing platforms for offshore exploration include sand and gravel islands in shallow-water areas, floating drillships accompanied by icebreakers, a concrete-caisson-retained island in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, and a converted VLCC, grounded on a prepared embankment and given additional protection by artificially constructed ice rubble. At the present time, two steel caissons, designed to be filled with sand after founding, and one floating drilling structure are under construction. In the design and planning stage are a number of new concepts for caissons, mostly constructed of prestressed lightweight concrete, designed to resist global forces in the range of 150 000 kips or more and local concentrated forces of 800 to 1000 psi over small areas. Prestressed lightweight concrete appears well suited to the demands of Arctic service. The towing, deployment, founding, and subsequent removal of exploratory platforms demands consideration of a wide variety of naval architectural aspects. One of the more critical areas facing designers is how to determine the forces and displacements caused by impact from a large ice floe or berg. The compliance of the structure and the hydrodynamic dissipation of kinetic energy need to be considered, as well as the crushing of the ice. The successful development of the Arctic demands consideration not only of a wide range of engineering and naval architectural aspects but also their integration with ecological, social, political and economic considerations.

Determining factors of the unconsolidated rocks of Cenomanian reservoir on the Bolshekhetskaya depression

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
N. Yu. Moskalenkо
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
Reservoir Rocks ◽  
Carbonate Cements ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Thermobaric Conditions ◽  
Gas Fields ◽  
Hydrocarbon Reserves

The relevance of the article is associated with the importance of the object of the research. Dozens of unique and giant oil and gas fields, such as Urengoyskoye, Medvezhye, Yamburgskoye, Vyngapurovskoye, Messoyakhskoye, Nakhodkinskoye, Russkoye, have been identified within the Cenomanian complex. The main feature of Cenomanian rocks is their slow rock cementation. This leads to significant difficulties in core sampling and the following studies of it; that is the direct and most informative source of data on the composition and properties of rocks that create a geological section.The identification of the factors, which determine the slow rock cementation of reservoir rocks, allows establishing a certain order in sampling and laboratory core studies. Consequently, reliable data on the reservoir and estimation of hydrocarbon reserves both of discovered and exploited fields and newly discovered fields that are being developed on the territory of the Gydan peninsula and the Bolshekhetskaya depression will be obtained. This study is also important for the exploration and development of hydrocarbon resources of the continental shelf in the waters of the Arctic seas of Russia as one of the most promising areas.As a result of the analysis, it was found that the formation of rocks of the PK1-3 Cenomanian age of the Bolshekhetskaya depression happened under conditions of normal compaction of terrigenous sedimentary rocks that are located in the West Siberian basin. Slow rock cementation of reservoir rocks is associated with relatively low thermobaric conditions of their occurrence, as well as the low content of clay and absence of carbonate cements. Their lithological and petrophysical characteristics are close to the analogous Cenomanian deposits of the northern fields of Western Siberia and can be applied to other unconsolidated rocks studied areas.

scholarly journals Ecological risks during offshore construction of oil platforms

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 04002
Author(s):  
Ksenia Derevtsova ◽  
Vladislav Ginevskii ◽  
Gleb Kataev ◽  
Semion Kim ◽  
Polina Veselova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
The North ◽  
Low Culture

The article tells about the risks of low-culture construction of oil facilities on the Arctic shelf. The long-term, practically neglected exploitation of the unique natural resources of the Russian North and the low culture of their development led in a number of its regions, including the waters of the Arctic seas with islands, to an emergency ecological situation - the partial and sometimes complete destruction of the fragile Arctic natural habitat of the small peoples of the North and the created cities and villages. Without proper environmental support, economic activities continue in the field of extraction, transportation and processing of natural resources. The progressive pollution of rivers and lakes leads to a qualitative depletion of water resources - a change in the composition of the waters of the Arctic Ocean. The danger of oil pollution of the marine environment is associated with plans for its production on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation. The oil and gas production complex in the Russian Arctic regions are being formed on the basis of already discovered fields and will develop as other promising fields are developed.

Efficiency Criteria of Operations in the Marine Resuce Support for Hydrocarbons Production and Transportation in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Ivanovna Lapteva ◽  
Lyudmila Anatolyevna Kopaeva ◽  
Marat Nabievich Mansurov ◽  
Vladimir Ivanovich Efremov ◽  
Viktor Nikolayevich Ilyuhin
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
The Russian Federation

Abstract The creation of an effective system of rescue support (the abbreviation ASO is adopted on the territory of the Russian Federation) in the implementation of the processes of oil and gas production and transportation in the Arctic seas of Russia is an urgent and difficult task. The feasibility of creating such a system for offshore oil and gas production facilities is due to the statistics of accidents and incidents at such facilities, as well as the fact that the Merchant Shipping Code of the Russian Federation, in essence, does not consider the applicability of the existing system of rescue operations on platforms that are exploring and developing mineral and other non-living resources the seabed and its bowels. The successful solution of numerous problems of rescue support, including the requirements for the quality of the system, indicators and criteria for the effectiveness of the operations carried out, can be significantly increased by using mathematical models that make it possible to identify patterns in the processes of performing urgent work, improve the quality of planning, and, consequently, the efficiency of management of various organizational systems. Applied in many areas of activity, the scientific direction "research of operations" is advisable to use when system generation of rescue support within the framework of improving the system of technical regulation of oil and gas enterprises. Determining the effectiveness of a purposeful process quantitatively will allow, on a scientific basis, with the involvement of modern mathematical methods, to solve the problem of increasing the effectiveness of the use of forces and means of the marine rescue support, including the functioning of the emergency support system in the mode of daily and emergency activities, as well as the preparation of the necessary forces and means. The novelty of the presented work lies in the application of the provisions of the theory and the apparatus of operations research to assessing the effectiveness of the system of the marine rescue support, which will further serve as a methodological basis for the development of a number of documents and provisions that are of practical importance: methods, requirements for the system of rescue support, documents in the field of control over the rescue system, etc.

SPILL IMPACT MITIGATION ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR OIL SPILL RESPONSE PLANNING IN THE ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 2017-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Robinson ◽  
William Gardiner ◽  
Richard J. Wenning ◽  
Mary Ann Rempel-Hester
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Ecosystems ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Response Planning ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Oil Spill Response ◽  
Different Response

ABSTRACT #2017-351 When there is risk for oil release into the marine environment, the priority for planners and responders is to protect human health and to minimize environmental impacts. The selection of appropriate response option(s) depends upon a wide range of information including data on the fate and behavior of oil and treated oil, the habitats and organisms that are potentially exposed, and the potential for effects and recovery following exposure. Spill Impact Management Assessment (SIMA; a refinement of Net Environmental Benefits Analysis, or NEBA, in the context of oil spill response) and similar comparative risk assessment (CRA) approaches provide responders a systematic method to compare and contrast the relative environmental benefits and consequences of different response alternatives. Government and industry stakeholders have used this approach increasingly in temperate and subtropical regions to establish environmental protection priorities and identify response strategies during planning that minimize impacts and maximize the potential for environmental recovery. Historically, the ability to conduct CRA-type assessments in the Arctic has been limited by insufficient information relevant to oil-spill response decision making. However, with an increased interest in shipping and oil and gas development in the Arctic, a sufficiently robust scientific and ecological information base is emerging in the Arctic that can support meaningful SIMA. Based on a summary of over 3,000 literature references on Arctic ecosystems and the fate and effects of oil and treated oil in the Arctic, we identify key input parameters supporting a SIMA evaluation of oil spill response in the Arctic and introduce a web portal developed to facilitate access to the literature and key considerations supporting SIMA.

scholarly journals Problems of development and economic evaluation of production of natural hydrocarbons on the offshore of the Arctic Seas

2021 ◽  
Vol 1201 (1) ◽  
pp. 012061
Author(s):  
Y Bogatkina ◽  
N Eremin ◽  
O Sardanashvili
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Production Sharing ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Fields ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
License Holder

Abstract The purpose of this article is to substantiate taxation models that have contributed to an increase in the efficiency of offshore oil and gas fields that are at the stage of mature development in the harsh Arctic conditions. The development of Arctic fields under the current tax regime is on the verge of profitability. As an experiment, an economic assessment of the main economic indicators of the option for the development of the Prirazlomnoye field was carried out, taking into account various tax mechanisms used to assess the effectiveness of the development of offshore oil and gas fields. The calculation results showed that the application of the tax regime in force in Russia makes the development of the Prirazlomnoye field efficient, but with a relatively low profitability for the license holder. As an alternative, the tax mechanisms laid down in the production sharing agreements in China and Russia were used, which showed a high economic effect with a low level of risk. It can be concluded that the use of taxation models, which are similar in nature to a production sharing agreement, significantly increases the efficiency of the Prirazlomnoye field development, and can bring greater financial benefits to the license holder in comparison with the current tax regime in the Russian Federation.

Natural and Technogenic Phenomena during Development of Oil and Gas Fields on the Shelf of the Arctic Seas

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
A.D. Dzyublo ◽  
◽  
K.V. Alekseeva ◽  
V.E. Perekrestov ◽  
Hua Xiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Gas Fields

SPILL IMPACT MITIGATION ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR OIL SPILL RESPONSE PLANNING IN THE ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 1325-1344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Robinson ◽  
William Gardiner ◽  
Richard J. Wenning ◽  
Mary Ann Rempel-Hester
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Ecosystems ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Response Planning ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Oil Spill Response ◽  
Different Response

ABSTRACT #2017-351 When there is risk for oil release into the marine environment, the priority for planners and responders is to protect human health and to minimize environmental impacts. The selection of appropriate response option(s) depends upon a wide range of information including data on the fate and behavior of oil and treated oil, the habitats and organisms that are potentially exposed, and the potential for effects and recovery following exposure. Spill Impact Management Assessment (SIMA; a refinement of Net Environmental Benefits Analysis, or NEBA, in the context of oil spill response) and similar comparative risk assessment (CRA) approaches provide responders a systematic method to compare and contrast the relative environmental benefits and consequences of different response alternatives. Government and industry stakeholders have used this approach increasingly in temperate and subtropical regions to establish environmental protection priorities and identify response strategies during planning that minimize impacts and maximize the potential for environmental recovery. Historically, the ability to conduct CRA-type assessments in the Arctic has been limited by insufficient information relevant to oil-spill response decision making. However, with an increased interest in shipping and oil and gas development in the Arctic, a sufficiently robust scientific and ecological information base is emerging in the Arctic that can support meaningful SIMA. Based on a summary of over 3,000 literature references on Arctic ecosystems and the fate and effects of oil and treated oil in the Arctic, we identify key input parameters supporting a SIMA evaluation of oil spill response in the Arctic and introduce a web portal developed to facilitate access to the literature and key considerations supporting SIMA.

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