Objectives/Scope: Well integrity monitoring is one of the critical processes in oil and gas wells to prevent unintended fluid movement or loss of containment to the environment. In this case study, there was continuous gas leakage to surface at high…
Objectives/Scope: Well integrity monitoring is one of the critical processes in oil and gas wells to prevent unintended fluid movement or loss of containment to the environment. In this case study, there was continuous gas leakage to surface at high…
Providing quick response time and accurate detection of small leaks in multiphase pipelines is of great importance for risk mitigation in the oil and gas industry. The emphasis of implementing state-of-the-art technologies to mitigate both safety and…
Objectives/Scope: Well integrity monitoring is one of the critical processes in oil and gas wells to prevent unintended fluid movement or loss of containment to the environment. In this case study, there was continuous gas leakage to surface at high…
Providing quick response time and accurate detection of small leaks in multiphase pipelines is of great importance for risk mitigation in the oil and gas industry. The emphasis of implementing state-of-the-art technologies to mitigate both safety and…
Germany is the largest market for natural gas in the European Union, with an annual consumption of approx. 95 billion cubic meters. The German high-pressure gas pipeline network's length is roughly 40000km, which enables highly fluctuating quantities…
Prior to 2008, shale gas reservoirs were deemed uneconomical to produce. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have shifted this perspective, reducing the flow resistance from the reservoir to the well. Notwithstanding the thousands of shale…
Natural gas purification, especially with high sulfur content, is an energy-intensive chemical production process, for which there are considerable differences in the energy consumption patterns of different purification plants. Therefore, these…
A large consumption of natural gas accompanied by reduced production capabilities makes Europe heavily dependent on imports from Russia. More than half of Russian gas is exported by transiting Ukraine, so in the context of the underlying conflict…
With the exploration and development of natural gas gradually extended to the deep sea, low-temperature and high-pressure environmental conditions and long-distance transportation make flow assurance engineers have to consider the impact of the…
The authors of the article consider the features of the flow of liquefied natural gas through cryogenic pipelines, the parameters of dispersed-ring and stratified modes of natural gas transport in the form of gas-liquid mixture, conduct a comparative…
As the natural gas market is moving towards short-term planning, accurate and robust short-term forecasts of the demand and supply of natural gas is of fundamental importance for a stable energy supply, a natural gas control schedule, and transport…
It is crucial to ensure the safety and integrity of underground gas storage (UGS) infrastructure for energy reliability in California, and many other places around the world. To address the risk management need in UGS industry, we take advantage of…
Objective: Digitalization is offering several chances to improve performance and reliability of Underground Gas Storage (UGS) infrastructures, especially in those sites where ageing would require investment improvement for maintenance and monitoring.…
Shales are generally treated as non-porous formations and are frequently considered as the source rock and the cap layer. Over the past decades, technical breakthroughs in the US such as horizontal drilling, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing,…
Hydrogen storage in underground structures is an appropriate way for keeping the balance between the energy production and consumption. Indeed, excessive electrical energy can be converted, through electrolysis, to chemical energy of hydrogen…
Orifice Flow meter (OFM) is widely used for measuring the flow in industry. However, in many cases, the measurement value of OFM some times will differ from the other meter, for instance Ultrasonic Meter (USM), that also measure the flow of the same…
A comprehensive study is presented on the interfacial behavior of all participating phases in a scenario of using carbon dioxide (CO2) to enhance the recovery of natural gas in tight sandstone reservoirs. Natural gas condensate is contacted with CO2…
CO2 removal is imperative in the sweetening of natural gas. In this work, a hybrid method combining membrane separation and chemical absorption is proposed and applied to test its performances in CH4 refinement and CO2 separation from natural gas.…
This paper analyzes the use of a cyclic solvent injection technique (CSI) as a non-thermal EOR alternative to cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) for increasing the heavy oil recovery in a shallow reservoir located at the middle Magdalena basin in…
This project carried out a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis using ANSYS Fluent 14.5 software to design a compressed natural gas (CNG)-air mixer for CNG-diesel dual fuel engine. This study aimed to examine the performance of existing…
The foam unloading technology for gas production is a very important technology for solving the liquid loading problem in gas wells, and its applications in the XN Gas Field account for 90% of all the applications of all the deliquification…
The separation technology of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key step to achieve high efficient carbon capture and storage targets. In the present study, we propose a new concept to remove CO2 from the offshore natural gas industry, which utilises the…
Reservoirs of unconventional petroleum resources, such as tight oil and gas, are characterized with low porosity and low matrix permeability. Since natural fractures act as the main channel of gas flow, their impacts on production are enormous. This…
Liquefaction and then transportation to the market is one of the promising options for the utilization of associated natural gas resources which are produced in oil fields. However, the flow of such resources is normally unsteady. Additionally, the…
The accumulation of fluid at the bottom of producing gas wells is one of the most pressing problems in the fields of the Far North, which are at the final stage of development and gas production. Water in a vaporous form comes from the reservoir into…
Blending hydrogen into the natural gas (NG) network could provide an efficient pathway for decarbonising the NG system through power-to-gas technologies. However, due to the presence of potentially multiple and intermittent hydrogen injection…
Subsea natural gas reservoirs are usually saturated with water vapor that causes corrosion in pipelines and forms hydrates blocking pipes and installations. In this work, the viability of the subsea natural gas dehydration in a non-porous membrane…
The simulation of the gas flow in tight sandstone reservoir is a very complicated process. Several mechanisms contributed to the natural gas production in tight sandstone reservoirs. One of the main mechanisms is the gas desorption from the rock…
The propagation of information encoded in the fluctuations of chemical species of natural gas transported within natural gas distribution grids allows for a new gas tracking method. In contrast to state of the art gas and calorific value tracking…
This paper proposes a microwave non-destructive testing (NDT) method to detect and estimate the volume fraction of fresh or saline water in natural gas pipelines. The gas pipe is modelled as a waveguide that is filled with gas and different…
The combination of hydrogen enrichment and pre-chamber initiated turbulent jet ignition was proposed to improve the combustion and performance of large bore gas engines. In order to clarify the effects of hydrogen enrichment level on the combustion…
Using 2012–2018 power plant failure data from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, we examine how many fuel shortage failures at gas power plants were caused by physical interruptions of gas flow as opposed to operational procedures…
The increasing demand of energy efficiency, the evolution of emission regulatory and the limited investments allocation, increases the attractiveness for flexible gas valorization systems [GGFR]. Gas valorization system can be considered all the…
Black Powder (BP) poses a serious threat to the integrity and operation of natural gas transmission networks worldwide. While BP corrective and preventive remedies have been proposed in the past, real-time detection and quantification of BP in…
The increasing demand of energy efficiency, the evolution of emission regulatory and the limited investments allocation, increases the attractiveness for flexible gas valorization systems [GGFR]. Gas valorization system can be considered all the…
This project carried out a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis using ANSYS Fluent 14.5 software to design a compressed natural gas (CNG)-air mixer for CNG-diesel dual fuel engine. This study aimed to examine the performance of existing…
Shales are generally treated as non-porous formations and are frequently considered as the source rock and the cap layer. Over the past decades, technical breakthroughs in the US such as horizontal drilling, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing,…
The separation technology of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key step to achieve high efficient carbon capture and storage targets. In the present study, we propose a new concept to remove CO2 from the offshore natural gas industry, which utilises the…
Blending hydrogen into the natural gas (NG) network could provide an efficient pathway for decarbonising the NG system through power-to-gas technologies. However, due to the presence of potentially multiple and intermittent hydrogen injection…
The combination of hydrogen enrichment and pre-chamber initiated turbulent jet ignition was proposed to improve the combustion and performance of large bore gas engines. In order to clarify the effects of hydrogen enrichment level on the combustion…