H. Rabbani, Muhammad Saad Khan, M. Qureshi, Mohammad Sohel Rahman, T. Seers, B. Lal
A mathematical model is presented to predict the formation of gas hydrates in porous media under various boundary conditions. The new mathematical modeling framework is based on coupling the analytical pore network approach (APNA) and equation proposed by De La Fuente et al. [1]. Further, we also integrate thermodynamic models to capture the phase boundary at which the formation of gas hydrates takes place. The proposed analytical framework is a set of equations that are computationally inexpensive to solve, allowing us to predict the formation of gas hydrates in complex porous media. Complete governing equations are provided, and the method is described in detail to permit readers to replicate all results. To demonstrate the formation of hydrates in porous media, we analyzed the saturation of hydrates in porous media with different properties. Our model shows that the hydrate formation rate is positively related to the porous media's pore size. The hydrates were found to be preferably formed in the porous media composed of relatively larger pores, which could be attributed to the weak capillary forces resisting the formation of hydrates in porous media. The novelty of the new analytical model is the ability to predict the gas hydrates formation in porous media in a reasonable time using standard engineering computers. Furthermore, the model can aid in the estimation of natural gas hydrate reservoirs, which offer the avenue for effective methane recovery from the vast natural gas hydrate reserves in continental margins.
提出了一种预测不同边界条件下多孔介质中天然气水合物形成的数学模型。新的数学建模框架是基于耦合解析孔网络方法(APNA)和De La Fuente等人[1]提出的方程。此外,我们还整合了热力学模型来捕捉天然气水合物形成的相边界。所提出的分析框架是一组计算成本低廉的方程,使我们能够预测复杂多孔介质中天然气水合物的形成。提供了完整的控制方程,并详细描述了该方法,以允许读者复制所有结果。为了证明多孔介质中水合物的形成,我们分析了不同性质多孔介质中水合物的饱和度。我们的模型表明,水合物的形成速率与多孔介质的孔径呈正相关。在孔隙较大的多孔介质中,水合物更容易形成,这可能是由于毛细管力较弱,阻碍了多孔介质中水合物的形成。新分析模型的新颖之处在于,它能够使用标准工程计算机在合理的时间内预测多孔介质中天然气水合物的形成。此外,该模型还可以帮助估算天然气水合物储层,为从大陆边缘巨大的天然气水合物储量中有效开采甲烷提供途径。
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Bin Yang, M. Nie, Hong Shen, Yu Guo Li, Nian Da Xu, Huan Zhang, Cheng De Niu
PLxx oilfield is a mature oilfield which has been developed by horizontal wells for several years with water-injection production style. It features with shallow, complex, high challenging unconsolidated channel sand with lateral property variation due to pinch out, stacking or lamination. The thickness of pay zone changes from couple of to ten more meters which brings much high challenge to reservoir delineation while drilling and horizontal well placement execution. The oilfield locates at a faulted belt of Bo Hai Bay among which some small faults may happen. But it's difficult to be identified because of the low S/N ratio incurs from the shallow gas effect on the seismic data. Moreover, uneven flowing zone units exist within sandstone package due to dynamic reservoir production, uncertainty of lateral sand connections and possible inter-well interventions. As such, this makes the oil-water distribution more complicated and the oil-water contact isn't uniform in the sand package. In order to furtherly understand the complex channel sand, place the wellbore in the favorable sweet spot and enhance the oil recovery, a newly-developed visualized reservoir characterization while drilling integrated technology associated with RSS(rotary steerable system), HSVP(high speed data transmission system), RTC(remote transmission connection through Internet) and OSC(operation support center) was employed to optimize the operation efficiency during a three-wells drilling campaign in this oilfield. This newly-developed reservoir characterization technique is the industry innovative fully 9 components measuring azimuthal Electro-Magnetic propagation tool in one single sub. It provides not only the conventional propagation resistivity but also the geo-signal responses in a very quick, flexible way. In one of the case, the unique "Dual-diagonal orthogonal T-R antenna design" ensures the DOI (depth of investigation) as deep as 6.8meters. The reservoir boundaries such as the top, the bottom or the oil-water contact were distinctly characterized and the horizontal drainage section was precisely navigated within the profitable pay zone. The post-well reservoir characterization result is comparable with the seismic profile and very helpful to understand the dynamic reservoir flowing zone unit. The excellent performance is also reflected in the oil production; the initial oil production was increased from 40 m3/day to 69m3/day which is 75% higher than expected. Minimum 25% of oil recovery will be enhanced as forecast.
{"title":"Newly-Developed Visualized Reservoir Characterization While Drilling Technology Improves Understanding of Complex Channel Sand, Assists EOR in a Mature Oilfield in Bo Hai Bay","authors":"Bin Yang, M. Nie, Hong Shen, Yu Guo Li, Nian Da Xu, Huan Zhang, Cheng De Niu","doi":"10.4043/31440-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31440-ms","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 PLxx oilfield is a mature oilfield which has been developed by horizontal wells for several years with water-injection production style. It features with shallow, complex, high challenging unconsolidated channel sand with lateral property variation due to pinch out, stacking or lamination. The thickness of pay zone changes from couple of to ten more meters which brings much high challenge to reservoir delineation while drilling and horizontal well placement execution. The oilfield locates at a faulted belt of Bo Hai Bay among which some small faults may happen. But it's difficult to be identified because of the low S/N ratio incurs from the shallow gas effect on the seismic data.\u0000 Moreover, uneven flowing zone units exist within sandstone package due to dynamic reservoir production, uncertainty of lateral sand connections and possible inter-well interventions. As such, this makes the oil-water distribution more complicated and the oil-water contact isn't uniform in the sand package.\u0000 In order to furtherly understand the complex channel sand, place the wellbore in the favorable sweet spot and enhance the oil recovery, a newly-developed visualized reservoir characterization while drilling integrated technology associated with RSS(rotary steerable system), HSVP(high speed data transmission system), RTC(remote transmission connection through Internet) and OSC(operation support center) was employed to optimize the operation efficiency during a three-wells drilling campaign in this oilfield. This newly-developed reservoir characterization technique is the industry innovative fully 9 components measuring azimuthal Electro-Magnetic propagation tool in one single sub. It provides not only the conventional propagation resistivity but also the geo-signal responses in a very quick, flexible way. In one of the case, the unique \"Dual-diagonal orthogonal T-R antenna design\" ensures the DOI (depth of investigation) as deep as 6.8meters.\u0000 The reservoir boundaries such as the top, the bottom or the oil-water contact were distinctly characterized and the horizontal drainage section was precisely navigated within the profitable pay zone. The post-well reservoir characterization result is comparable with the seismic profile and very helpful to understand the dynamic reservoir flowing zone unit. The excellent performance is also reflected in the oil production; the initial oil production was increased from 40 m3/day to 69m3/day which is 75% higher than expected. Minimum 25% of oil recovery will be enhanced as forecast.","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86315512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field-X was first discovered in 1979, comprising of saturated oil reservoirs with several shallower non-associated gas reservoirs. Field-X is currently producing from several oil producers. X8 well was recently drilled, completed, and produce from A and B reservoirs. However, 5 months later, the oil rate has been reduced by half with gas oil ratio (GOR) increased up to 5 times. Consequently, the well had to be shut-in due to reservoir management plan (RMP) violation. X9 well was drilled and completed, but 5 years later the well started experiencing the sustained production casing pressure (PCP) and was forced to shut-in in the following year with the locked-in potential of both A and B reservoirs. To diagnose the root cause of high GOR (HGOR) in X8 well and sustained PCP in X9 well, the Spectral Noise Log (SNL) was deployed. The main advantage of utilizing SNL is its capability of detecting fluid movement behind tubing and casing. High differential pressure creates lots of fluid movement, which generates higher noise amplitude. Meanwhile, smaller pores or leaks generate higher frequency noise that can be easily picked up by SNL. SNL tool was run in flowing condition for X8 well and the results indicated the HGOR zones were mainly contributed by the shallower B05 sand which was flowing through the leaked 4-1/2″ liner packer. Temperature deflections also indicated that the liner packer seal was leaking and B05 reservoir was contributing to the production. The liner packer leak and B05 reservoir flow would not have been detected by conventional production logging tools as the flow was happening beyond the tubing and casing. For X9 well, SNL was run in the wellbore whilst pumping water via annulus, through the leaks and flowing back up the tubing. Three tubing leaks were successfully detected from the SNL run, whereas previous conventional noise log only managed to detect 2 leaks. It is possible that the third small leak was very small, hence the conventional tool was unable to detect it. X8 well successfully back online with 8.4% rate increase than last production with GOR reduced back to initial GOR and X9 well successfully back online as per last production rate. The liner packers which are not permanent barriers for reservoir isolation and allocation can be validated, moreover, verifying that tubing leakage is mainly contributed by tubing joints, which can be used as the main input in tubing materials selection in the future. Well integrity issues can cause significant loss of production, oil spill or worst case, even loss of lives. Proper selection in data acquisition tools helps to accurately diagnose well integrity issues that can be swiftly addressed. In the low oil price environment, skimming down on data acquisition costs may not uncover the true underlying well issues or reservoir issues, but might jeopardize future projects to be undertaken in years to come.
{"title":"Noise Logging Application for Well Integrity Evaluation: A Case Study in Peninsular Malaysia","authors":"L. J. Saw, Hanalim Linda, Tolioe Amelio William","doi":"10.4043/31401-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31401-ms","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Field-X was first discovered in 1979, comprising of saturated oil reservoirs with several shallower non-associated gas reservoirs. Field-X is currently producing from several oil producers. X8 well was recently drilled, completed, and produce from A and B reservoirs. However, 5 months later, the oil rate has been reduced by half with gas oil ratio (GOR) increased up to 5 times. Consequently, the well had to be shut-in due to reservoir management plan (RMP) violation. X9 well was drilled and completed, but 5 years later the well started experiencing the sustained production casing pressure (PCP) and was forced to shut-in in the following year with the locked-in potential of both A and B reservoirs.\u0000 To diagnose the root cause of high GOR (HGOR) in X8 well and sustained PCP in X9 well, the Spectral Noise Log (SNL) was deployed. The main advantage of utilizing SNL is its capability of detecting fluid movement behind tubing and casing. High differential pressure creates lots of fluid movement, which generates higher noise amplitude. Meanwhile, smaller pores or leaks generate higher frequency noise that can be easily picked up by SNL.\u0000 SNL tool was run in flowing condition for X8 well and the results indicated the HGOR zones were mainly contributed by the shallower B05 sand which was flowing through the leaked 4-1/2″ liner packer. Temperature deflections also indicated that the liner packer seal was leaking and B05 reservoir was contributing to the production. The liner packer leak and B05 reservoir flow would not have been detected by conventional production logging tools as the flow was happening beyond the tubing and casing. For X9 well, SNL was run in the wellbore whilst pumping water via annulus, through the leaks and flowing back up the tubing. Three tubing leaks were successfully detected from the SNL run, whereas previous conventional noise log only managed to detect 2 leaks. It is possible that the third small leak was very small, hence the conventional tool was unable to detect it.\u0000 X8 well successfully back online with 8.4% rate increase than last production with GOR reduced back to initial GOR and X9 well successfully back online as per last production rate. The liner packers which are not permanent barriers for reservoir isolation and allocation can be validated, moreover, verifying that tubing leakage is mainly contributed by tubing joints, which can be used as the main input in tubing materials selection in the future.\u0000 Well integrity issues can cause significant loss of production, oil spill or worst case, even loss of lives. Proper selection in data acquisition tools helps to accurately diagnose well integrity issues that can be swiftly addressed. In the low oil price environment, skimming down on data acquisition costs may not uncover the true underlying well issues or reservoir issues, but might jeopardize future projects to be undertaken in years to come.\u0000","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"248 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73536042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elijah Lip Heng How, A. Donald, P. Bettinelli, P. Chongrueanglap, Woi Loon Hooi, Anniza Ai Mei Soh
Vertical seismic profile (VSP) or checkshot surveys are useful measurements to obtain accurate time-depth pairs for time-depth conversion in seismic exploration. However, in deviated wells, the standard geometry correction for rig-source VSPs will not provide reliable time-depth profiles because of ray bending, anisotropy, and lateral velocity variation effects. The accuracy of the time-depth profile can be improved by using model-based correction or vertical incidence VSP simulation with transversely isotropic (TI) data from an advanced sonic measurement. Elastic anisotropy parameters derived from sonic combined with VSP time-depth information are shown to accurately place a deviated wellbore within the reservoir to improve the drainage and productivity of a reservoir in offshore Malaysia. For rig-source VSP in a deviated well, the source-receiver travel path is not a vertical straight line, but an oblique, refracted path. The seismic waves from the source travel along straight paths within a layer of constant velocity. On entering another layer, they undergo refraction and the direction of travel changes. The pseudo-vertical incidence VSP is simulated with a velocity model to accurately calculate the vertical traveltime. This deviated well passes through various layers of overburden before reaching the target reservoirs. Observations from the dipole shear anisotropy, formation dip, and using dispersion analysis, indicate that these shales can be considered transversely isotropic with a vertical axis of symmetry. A single well probabilistic inversion was used to solve for the five anisotropic constants by combining the sonic measurements and prior elastic anisotropy relationships. This advanced model-based correction was the optimal solution to improve the accuracy of checkshot time-depth velocity data in combination with the anisotropic velocity model. Isotropic model-based correction showed a 6-ms time difference compared with standard VSP geometry correction. However, the sonic data in the overburden formations showed a significant amount of layering that gave rise to significant uncertainty in the existing velocity model and thus the position of the top reservoir. The anisotropic parameters were determined at sonic scale for the shale directly overlaying the reservoir. The upscaled anisotropic velocity model showed that an 18-ms time difference with standard VSP geometry correction changed the depth of the reservoir up to 45 m. The new model now placed the reservoir at the correct position and can be used with more confidence for development purposes.
{"title":"Verticalized Sonic Measurements in Deviated Wellbore for Accurate Velocity Modelling and Seismic Well Tie in Offshore Malaysia","authors":"Elijah Lip Heng How, A. Donald, P. Bettinelli, P. Chongrueanglap, Woi Loon Hooi, Anniza Ai Mei Soh","doi":"10.4043/31641-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31641-ms","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Vertical seismic profile (VSP) or checkshot surveys are useful measurements to obtain accurate time-depth pairs for time-depth conversion in seismic exploration. However, in deviated wells, the standard geometry correction for rig-source VSPs will not provide reliable time-depth profiles because of ray bending, anisotropy, and lateral velocity variation effects. The accuracy of the time-depth profile can be improved by using model-based correction or vertical incidence VSP simulation with transversely isotropic (TI) data from an advanced sonic measurement. Elastic anisotropy parameters derived from sonic combined with VSP time-depth information are shown to accurately place a deviated wellbore within the reservoir to improve the drainage and productivity of a reservoir in offshore Malaysia.\u0000 For rig-source VSP in a deviated well, the source-receiver travel path is not a vertical straight line, but an oblique, refracted path. The seismic waves from the source travel along straight paths within a layer of constant velocity. On entering another layer, they undergo refraction and the direction of travel changes. The pseudo-vertical incidence VSP is simulated with a velocity model to accurately calculate the vertical traveltime.\u0000 This deviated well passes through various layers of overburden before reaching the target reservoirs. Observations from the dipole shear anisotropy, formation dip, and using dispersion analysis, indicate that these shales can be considered transversely isotropic with a vertical axis of symmetry. A single well probabilistic inversion was used to solve for the five anisotropic constants by combining the sonic measurements and prior elastic anisotropy relationships. This advanced model-based correction was the optimal solution to improve the accuracy of checkshot time-depth velocity data in combination with the anisotropic velocity model.\u0000 Isotropic model-based correction showed a 6-ms time difference compared with standard VSP geometry correction. However, the sonic data in the overburden formations showed a significant amount of layering that gave rise to significant uncertainty in the existing velocity model and thus the position of the top reservoir. The anisotropic parameters were determined at sonic scale for the shale directly overlaying the reservoir. The upscaled anisotropic velocity model showed that an 18-ms time difference with standard VSP geometry correction changed the depth of the reservoir up to 45 m. The new model now placed the reservoir at the correct position and can be used with more confidence for development purposes.","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"340 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80756986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OTC-28901-MS proposed the novel dynamically installed "fish" anchor in 2018, adopting a geometry taken from nature, for potential economic and safer tethering of floating facilities in deep water. Every cross section of the fish anchor shaft is elliptical, leading to very low drag resistance during free fall through the water column, and also low resistance in penetrating the seabed sediments. The padeye is fitted on the widest part of the shaft to mobilise the maximum resistance area under operational loading. The fish anchor embedment depth during dynamic installation, and capacity under both monotonic and cyclic operational loading in calcareous silt were assessed through centrifuge model tests and large deformation finite element analyses. During dynamic installation, the normalised tip embedment depth of the fish anchor was typically three times that for the torpedo anchors and 50% greater than that for the OMNI-Max anchors. Under operational loading, the fish anchor dove deeper, reaching penetrations 20 to 60% greater than achieved during installation. By contrast the torpedo anchors (for all mooring mudline inclinations) and the OMNI-Max anchors (apart from a single test with mooring mudline inclination of 0°) pulled out directly without diving, reflecting insufficient free-fall penetration in calcareous soil. This paper provides a follow up reporting the performance of the fish anchor through field tests in the Swan River, Perth. A 1/15th scale model fish anchor was fabricated with dry weight being 0.304 kN. The anchor was tested at five different locations. At two shallow water locations (water depths 1.1 and 1.9 m, respectively), the tests were performed from the Burswood and Maylands jetty. At relatively deeper water depths of 2.91∼4.73 m, the tests were performed from a barge. The riverbed soils consisted of clay, silty clay, silt and sandy silt. The impact velocities were 5.9∼11.7 m/s. The normalised tip embedment depths were even greater compared to those achieved from centrifuge tests in calcareous silt. Under operational monotonic loadings, the fish anchor dove, as opposed to pull out of the riverbed, for mooring angles ≤ 37∼47°. Interestingly, in contrast to non-diving torpedo and suction caisson anchors, the diving fish anchor resulted non-elliptical failure envelopes, which have been expressed mathematically. The ultimate capacity was 3.5∼15 times the weight of the anchor submerged in water for taught and catenary moorings.
{"title":"Fish Anchor Testing in the Swan River","authors":"M. Hossain, Youngho Kim","doi":"10.4043/31423-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31423-ms","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 OTC-28901-MS proposed the novel dynamically installed \"fish\" anchor in 2018, adopting a geometry taken from nature, for potential economic and safer tethering of floating facilities in deep water. Every cross section of the fish anchor shaft is elliptical, leading to very low drag resistance during free fall through the water column, and also low resistance in penetrating the seabed sediments. The padeye is fitted on the widest part of the shaft to mobilise the maximum resistance area under operational loading. The fish anchor embedment depth during dynamic installation, and capacity under both monotonic and cyclic operational loading in calcareous silt were assessed through centrifuge model tests and large deformation finite element analyses. During dynamic installation, the normalised tip embedment depth of the fish anchor was typically three times that for the torpedo anchors and 50% greater than that for the OMNI-Max anchors. Under operational loading, the fish anchor dove deeper, reaching penetrations 20 to 60% greater than achieved during installation. By contrast the torpedo anchors (for all mooring mudline inclinations) and the OMNI-Max anchors (apart from a single test with mooring mudline inclination of 0°) pulled out directly without diving, reflecting insufficient free-fall penetration in calcareous soil.\u0000 This paper provides a follow up reporting the performance of the fish anchor through field tests in the Swan River, Perth. A 1/15th scale model fish anchor was fabricated with dry weight being 0.304 kN. The anchor was tested at five different locations. At two shallow water locations (water depths 1.1 and 1.9 m, respectively), the tests were performed from the Burswood and Maylands jetty. At relatively deeper water depths of 2.91∼4.73 m, the tests were performed from a barge. The riverbed soils consisted of clay, silty clay, silt and sandy silt. The impact velocities were 5.9∼11.7 m/s. The normalised tip embedment depths were even greater compared to those achieved from centrifuge tests in calcareous silt. Under operational monotonic loadings, the fish anchor dove, as opposed to pull out of the riverbed, for mooring angles ≤ 37∼47°. Interestingly, in contrast to non-diving torpedo and suction caisson anchors, the diving fish anchor resulted non-elliptical failure envelopes, which have been expressed mathematically. The ultimate capacity was 3.5∼15 times the weight of the anchor submerged in water for taught and catenary moorings.","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88818266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tossapol Tongkum, Khamawat Siritheerasas, Feras Abu Jafar, Chulakorn Yosakrai, A. Abbasgholipour
Mubadala Petroleum conducts a fast-paced drilling program in the Gulf of Thailand, where rapid response resolutions are often required. This paper demonstrates the Remote Operation (RO) approach, which is an integrated approach comprised of people, software, network, and technology to transform operations, and moves analytical activities to safer office-based environments (Figure 1). The approach provides a high level of performance, leveraging global domain expertise, real-time collaboration, data visualization techniques, and intelligent planning within the restrictive context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Figure 1 Remote Operation relevant function RO is the ability to operate a system at a distance. This is an adopted innovation and technology in the oil and gas industry, which is a completely new way of working. The principal concept for introducing the RO approach was to reduce the Personnel on Board (POB) and the HSE exposure, which was particularly relevant during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach relied on leading-edge digital technology, as the RO was required to handle real-time directional drilling (DD), measurements, and logging while drilling (MLWD). During the implementation, the crew was trained in multi-skilling related to the DD/MLWD function, while working with the necessity of digital technology. Digital transformation is emerging as a driver of sweeping change in the world around us. Today, the Oil and Gas industry has redefined its boundaries through automation and digitalization. The potential benefits of going digital are clear, including increased productivity, safer operations, and significant cost savings. This exercise, it allowed us to reduce the POB on-site by 40% while maintaining both drilling efficiency and service quality. The drilling data can be monitored in real-time. The Remote Operation Center (ROC) has the capacity to execution and montor directional drilling, formation evaluation, programming, and dumping data from various tools. An experienced crew were assigned to the RO team ensuring competencies and familiarity with drilling operation in specific field characterization. This transformation supported our business continuity objectives by reducing the number of people traveling offshore during the COVID-19 pandemic while allowing us to achieve all our drilling performance objectives. In this new environment, following the turmoil of pandemics, this exercise indicates an opportunity to make fundamental improvements to the way business is conducted using the Remote Operations approach. RO takes a significant step towards the future for highly traditional industry. Preparing the industry toward the future may prove to be the most important outcome of the application of RO during the COVID-19 pandemic. The application of RO during the COVID pandemic has confirmed the possibility of more permanent improvements and increased resilience against future pandemics and other challenging events,
{"title":"Remote Operations and Digital Transformation: A Solution for Business Continuity During Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Tossapol Tongkum, Khamawat Siritheerasas, Feras Abu Jafar, Chulakorn Yosakrai, A. Abbasgholipour","doi":"10.4043/31336-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31336-ms","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Mubadala Petroleum conducts a fast-paced drilling program in the Gulf of Thailand, where rapid response resolutions are often required. This paper demonstrates the Remote Operation (RO) approach, which is an integrated approach comprised of people, software, network, and technology to transform operations, and moves analytical activities to safer office-based environments (Figure 1). The approach provides a high level of performance, leveraging global domain expertise, real-time collaboration, data visualization techniques, and intelligent planning within the restrictive context of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u0000 Figure 1 Remote Operation relevant function\u0000 RO is the ability to operate a system at a distance. This is an adopted innovation and technology in the oil and gas industry, which is a completely new way of working. The principal concept for introducing the RO approach was to reduce the Personnel on Board (POB) and the HSE exposure, which was particularly relevant during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach relied on leading-edge digital technology, as the RO was required to handle real-time directional drilling (DD), measurements, and logging while drilling (MLWD). During the implementation, the crew was trained in multi-skilling related to the DD/MLWD function, while working with the necessity of digital technology.\u0000 Digital transformation is emerging as a driver of sweeping change in the world around us. Today, the Oil and Gas industry has redefined its boundaries through automation and digitalization. The potential benefits of going digital are clear, including increased productivity, safer operations, and significant cost savings. This exercise, it allowed us to reduce the POB on-site by 40% while maintaining both drilling efficiency and service quality. The drilling data can be monitored in real-time. The Remote Operation Center (ROC) has the capacity to execution and montor directional drilling, formation evaluation, programming, and dumping data from various tools.\u0000 An experienced crew were assigned to the RO team ensuring competencies and familiarity with drilling operation in specific field characterization. This transformation supported our business continuity objectives by reducing the number of people traveling offshore during the COVID-19 pandemic while allowing us to achieve all our drilling performance objectives. In this new environment, following the turmoil of pandemics, this exercise indicates an opportunity to make fundamental improvements to the way business is conducted using the Remote Operations approach.\u0000 RO takes a significant step towards the future for highly traditional industry. Preparing the industry toward the future may prove to be the most important outcome of the application of RO during the COVID-19 pandemic. The application of RO during the COVID pandemic has confirmed the possibility of more permanent improvements and increased resilience against future pandemics and other challenging events,","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88886790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongfu Shi, Kuiqian Ma, Cunliang Chen, Fei Shi, Xiaodong Han
After the reservoir enters the medium-high water-cut period, due to the heterogeneity of the reservoir, the difference of fluid mobility, and the difference in injection and production, large water flow channels are gradually formed in the formation, which result in fixed streamline in the formation, and the inefficient or ineffective water circulation. Ineffective injection water circulation severely inhibits water flooding effect. Conventional tapping measures can’t change the problem of ineffective water circulation. However, the profile control technology changes the flow direction of subsequent injected water by plugging the high permeability layer or large pores, improving the water injection profile, and increasing the formation water retention rate, so as to expand the swept volume. Therefore, profile controlling technology has always been an important method water control and oil stabilization technologies for the reservoirs with thief zones. The success or failure of profile control measures depends to a large extent on thief zones identification and its description, sensitivity analysis of plugging agent performance, scientific and reasonable profile control decision-making and optimization, in addition to selection of candidate wells, optimization of construction parameters, effect prediction and effect evaluation.
{"title":"Pilot Test of Deep Profile Controlling and Sweep Improvement Based on Plugging Agent Location Optimization in Offshore Oilfield","authors":"Hongfu Shi, Kuiqian Ma, Cunliang Chen, Fei Shi, Xiaodong Han","doi":"10.4043/31519-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31519-ms","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 After the reservoir enters the medium-high water-cut period, due to the heterogeneity of the reservoir, the difference of fluid mobility, and the difference in injection and production, large water flow channels are gradually formed in the formation, which result in fixed streamline in the formation, and the inefficient or ineffective water circulation. Ineffective injection water circulation severely inhibits water flooding effect. Conventional tapping measures can’t change the problem of ineffective water circulation. However, the profile control technology changes the flow direction of subsequent injected water by plugging the high permeability layer or large pores, improving the water injection profile, and increasing the formation water retention rate, so as to expand the swept volume. Therefore, profile controlling technology has always been an important method water control and oil stabilization technologies for the reservoirs with thief zones.\u0000 The success or failure of profile control measures depends to a large extent on thief zones identification and its description, sensitivity analysis of plugging agent performance, scientific and reasonable profile control decision-making and optimization, in addition to selection of candidate wells, optimization of construction parameters, effect prediction and effect evaluation.","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83785883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Norlela Mustaffa, Rohaizad M Norpiah, Dyg Amalina Azzyati Awang Bakar, Qurratuaini M Nazori, Muliadi Agus
Typically, for a high volume, low condensate-gas ratio offshore gas production field having high content of carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen sulphide (H2S), mercury and solid particulates having to meet Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) inlet specification would require an enormous facility exceeding the largest available floatover vessel capacity. Aside from an enormous and complex processing facility, it would also require a large emergency disposal system and sour service pipeline material to cater for start-up and process excursion scenarios. In order to obtain a commercially attractive solution while meeting technical integrity and designing for operational excellence in mind, several innovative design approaches were implemented. The scope of this paper will cover major optimization implemented at gas treatment system, emergency blowdown system, export gas pipeline, and venting system at receiving platform.
{"title":"Weathering Uncertainties in Oil & Gas: Challenges and Design Optimization of High Contaminant Gas Field","authors":"Norlela Mustaffa, Rohaizad M Norpiah, Dyg Amalina Azzyati Awang Bakar, Qurratuaini M Nazori, Muliadi Agus","doi":"10.4043/31379-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31379-ms","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Typically, for a high volume, low condensate-gas ratio offshore gas production field having high content of carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen sulphide (H2S), mercury and solid particulates having to meet Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) inlet specification would require an enormous facility exceeding the largest available floatover vessel capacity. Aside from an enormous and complex processing facility, it would also require a large emergency disposal system and sour service pipeline material to cater for start-up and process excursion scenarios. In order to obtain a commercially attractive solution while meeting technical integrity and designing for operational excellence in mind, several innovative design approaches were implemented. The scope of this paper will cover major optimization implemented at gas treatment system, emergency blowdown system, export gas pipeline, and venting system at receiving platform.","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88603761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mutia Kharunisa Mardhatillah, M. A. Md Yusof, A. Sa'id, Iqmal Irsyad Mohammad Fuad, Yen Adams Sokama- Neuyam, Nur Asyraf Md Akhir
Southeast Asia is increasingly gaining attention as a promising geological site for permanent CO2 sequestration in deep saline aquifers. During CO2 injection into saline reservoirs, the reaction between injected CO2, the resident formation brine, and the reservoir rock could cause injectivity change due to salt precipitation, mineral dissolution, and fine particles migration. The underlying mechanisms have been extensively studied, both experimentally and numerically and the governing parameters have been identified and studied. However, the current models that have been widely adopted to investigate reactive transport and its impact on CO2 injectivity have fundamental limitations when applied to solve small, high dimensional, and non-linear data. The objective of this study is to develop efficient and robust predictive models using support vector regression (SVR) integrated with hyperparameter tuning optimization algorithms, including genetic algorithm (GA). To develop the model, 44 datasets are used to predict the CO2 injectivity change with its influencing variables such as brine salinity, injection flow rate, particle size, and particle concentration. The performance for each model is analyzed and compared with previous models by determination of coefficient (R2), adjusted determination of coefficient (R¯2), average absolute percentage error (AAPE), root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE). The model with the highest R2 is selected as the predictive model for CO2 injectivity impairment during CO2 sequestration in a saline aquifer. The results revealed that both SVR and GA-SVR are able to capture the precise correlation between measured and predicted data. However, the GA-SVR model slightly outperformed the SVR model by a higher R2 value of 0.9923 compared to SVR with R2 value of 0.9918. Based on SHAP value analysis, brine salinity had the highest impact on CO2 injectivity change, followed by injection flow rate, particle concentration, and jamming ratio. It was also found that hybridization of genetic algorithm with support vector regression does improve the model performance contrary to single algorithm and contributes to the determination of the most impactful factors that induce CO2 injectivity change. The proposed model can be upscaled and integrated into field-scale models to improve the optimization of CO2 injectivity in deep saline reservoirs.
{"title":"Predictive Modelling of Carbon Dioxide Injectivity Using SVR-Hybrid","authors":"Mutia Kharunisa Mardhatillah, M. A. Md Yusof, A. Sa'id, Iqmal Irsyad Mohammad Fuad, Yen Adams Sokama- Neuyam, Nur Asyraf Md Akhir","doi":"10.4043/31472-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31472-ms","url":null,"abstract":"Southeast Asia is increasingly gaining attention as a promising geological site for permanent CO2 sequestration in deep saline aquifers. During CO2 injection into saline reservoirs, the reaction between injected CO2, the resident formation brine, and the reservoir rock could cause injectivity change due to salt precipitation, mineral dissolution, and fine particles migration. The underlying mechanisms have been extensively studied, both experimentally and numerically and the governing parameters have been identified and studied. However, the current models that have been widely adopted to investigate reactive transport and its impact on CO2 injectivity have fundamental limitations when applied to solve small, high dimensional, and non-linear data. The objective of this study is to develop efficient and robust predictive models using support vector regression (SVR) integrated with hyperparameter tuning optimization algorithms, including genetic algorithm (GA). To develop the model, 44 datasets are used to predict the CO2 injectivity change with its influencing variables such as brine salinity, injection flow rate, particle size, and particle concentration. The performance for each model is analyzed and compared with previous models by determination of coefficient (R2), adjusted determination of coefficient (R¯2), average absolute percentage error (AAPE), root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE). The model with the highest R2 is selected as the predictive model for CO2 injectivity impairment during CO2 sequestration in a saline aquifer. The results revealed that both SVR and GA-SVR are able to capture the precise correlation between measured and predicted data. However, the GA-SVR model slightly outperformed the SVR model by a higher R2 value of 0.9923 compared to SVR with R2 value of 0.9918. Based on SHAP value analysis, brine salinity had the highest impact on CO2 injectivity change, followed by injection flow rate, particle concentration, and jamming ratio. It was also found that hybridization of genetic algorithm with support vector regression does improve the model performance contrary to single algorithm and contributes to the determination of the most impactful factors that induce CO2 injectivity change. The proposed model can be upscaled and integrated into field-scale models to improve the optimization of CO2 injectivity in deep saline reservoirs.","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"3 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83479651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Shi, Wanzhe Yang, Kai Chen, Guojun Yu, Canwei Jin, Lingxiao Ni, B. Jing, Zhendi Hu
Floating wind farms has been a global trend in utilizing offshore wind resources. With the development of floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT), dynamic inter-array cable would be required to connect between floating structures. W shape is a kind of dynamic cable configuration that shape the cable floating in midwater and connect between floating platforms. This paper tends to look into W shape dynamic cable configuration performance in extreme environmental conditions. The sensitivity of buoyancy and cable length is evaluated, which provides information for future development of such kind of configuration.
{"title":"Performance Evaluation of W Shape Dynamic Inter-Array Cable Configuration for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine","authors":"L. Shi, Wanzhe Yang, Kai Chen, Guojun Yu, Canwei Jin, Lingxiao Ni, B. Jing, Zhendi Hu","doi":"10.4043/31344-ms","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4043/31344-ms","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Floating wind farms has been a global trend in utilizing offshore wind resources. With the development of floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT), dynamic inter-array cable would be required to connect between floating structures. W shape is a kind of dynamic cable configuration that shape the cable floating in midwater and connect between floating platforms. This paper tends to look into W shape dynamic cable configuration performance in extreme environmental conditions. The sensitivity of buoyancy and cable length is evaluated, which provides information for future development of such kind of configuration.","PeriodicalId":11081,"journal":{"name":"Day 2 Wed, March 23, 2022","volume":"129 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85757711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}