Electrical energy storage (EES) systems consisting of multiple process components and containing intensive amounts of energy present inherent hazards coupled with high operational risks. Although the thermal hazards of batteries have aroused…
Condensation of steam vapor is an important mode of energy removal from the reactor containment. The presence of noncondensable gas complicates the process and makes it difficult to model. MELCOR, one of the more widely used system codes for…
Scope: This part of ISO 20765 specifies a method to calculate volumetric and caloric properties of natural gases, manufactured fuel gases, and similar mixtures, at conditions where the mixture may be in either the homogeneous (single-phase) gas…
Economic development of marginal oil fields usually requires utilization of nearby existing processing facilities to minimize Capital and Operational Expenses. However, tie-back of multi-phase well fluid to other existing processing facilities has…
Along with the maturation of main oil exploration and production (E&P) areas in the world, the industryhas started to seek for new investment opportunities that have been considered unattractive so far. Amongsuch opportunities might be small oil…
Along with the maturation of main oil exploration and production (E&P) areas in the world, the industry has started to seek for new investment opportunities that have been considered unattractive so far. Among such opportunities might be small oil…
The interpretation of geophysical survey results to answer hydrologic, engineering, and geologic questions is critical to diverse problems for management of water, energy, and mineral resources. Although geophysical images provide valuable…
Current research efforts on the atmospheric impacts of natural gas (NG) have focused heavily on the production, storage/transmission, and processing sectors, with less attention paid to the distribution and end use sectors. This work discusses 23…
Sulfur isotope ratios are among the most commonly studied isotope systems in geochemistry. While sulfur isotope ratio analyses of materials such as bulk rock samples, gases, and sulfide grains are routinely carried out, in-situ analyses of silicate…
In the process of oil exploitation, the water level of an oil well can be predicted and the position of reservoir can be estimated by measuring the water content of crude oil, with reference for the automatic production of high efficiency in the oil…
Field X located in offshore South East Asia, is a deepwater, turbidite natural gas greenfield currently being developed using a subsea tieback production system. It is part of a group of fields anticipated to be developed together as a cluster. Due…
Opportunities exist for improving the methods of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) composition measurement while providing a meaningful reduction in uncertainty to below 1%. Direct LNG sensors have been introduced as an alternative measurement to the…
In petroleum production projects it is important to consider injection wells in order to promote the mass balance of the porous environment and increase the recovery factor of petroleum. Some of the injection wells are utilized to inject water,…
The study areas of this PhD thesis are located in the Peruvian and Argentinean Andean Back-Arc in South America. The thesis focuses on two major themes: firstly, on contractional thick-skinned tectonics (and related processes, regarding interplay and…
Field re-development planning for tertiary recovery projects in mature fields traditionally involves a comprehensive subsurface evaluation circle, including static/dynamic modeling, scenario assessment and candidate selection based on economic…
Brazilian presalt carbonate reservoirs are highly heterogeneous. This feature is mostly justified by the nature of the original depositional system and subsequently diagenetic processes. Consequently, reserve estimates and production forecasting are…
This paper successfully applied the geoengineering workflow for integrated well-test analysis to characterize fluid flow in a newly discovered fractured reservoir in the Barents Sea. A reservoir model containing fractures and matrix was built and…
This paper discusses metrologically the best practice regarding the calibration curves applied to H2S mass fractions determination in natural gas by gas chromatography with sulfur chemiluminescence detection (GC-SCD). Three calibration curves were…
Scattering techniques are invaluable for the study of self-association and structure of soft systems. The properties and phase behavior of petroleum asphaltenes have long been investigated using small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering. However,…
The Expected Value of Information (EVoI) is a criterion to analyze the feasibility of acquiring new information to deal with uncertainties and improve decisions at any stage of an oil field. Here, we evaluate the influence of the use of…
Many factors affect production strategy selection in petroleum field development. Decision makers many times rely on informal procedures and professional experience to base decisions because tools to quantify their expectations are sometimes unclear…
The Expected Value of Information (EVoI) is a criterion to analyze the feasibility of acquiring newinformation to deal with uncertainties and improve decisions at any stage of an oil field. Here, we evaluatethe influence of the use of representative…
This paper presents the methodology used by the Offshore Business Unit of Heritage Petroleum Company Limited (HPCL), to reorganize its future development portfolio. This methodology enabled us to re-organize and rank future projects in order of 1)…
Production allocation from petroleum geochemistry is defined here as the quantitative determination of the amount or portion of a commingled fluid to be assigned to two or more individual fluid sources (e.g., a pipeline, field, reservoir, well) at a…
Global experience in cold Gas Oil Gravity Drainage (cGOGD) recovery with crestal gas injection of infield produced gas is very limited, but is a proven economic recovery method for fractured carbonate reservoirs in North Oman. Despite decades of…
Assessing heavy oil composition of a green field, with an accepted level of uncertainty so it can be used for refinery capacity planning is a critical challenge. Knowledge of heavy crude oil properties is vital to understand potential adverse impact…
Porosity is an important property of source rocks with implications on petroleum storage and expulsion. The evolution of porosity over geologic time-scales is controlled by coupled processes such as compaction, geothermal heating, kerogen kinetics,…
Development decisions for petroleum fields are costly and difficult because they involve long-term projects with complex systems and high level of uncertainties. Decision makers may reduce reservoir uncertainties with the acquisition of additional…
This paper presents an extension of the RMFinder technique, previously proposed for scenario reduction within the decision-making process in oil fields. As there are several uncertainties associated with this process, a large number of scenarios…
Clean energy resources, like wind, have a stochastic nature, which involves uncertainties in the power system. Introducing energy storage systems (ESS) to the network can compensate for the uncertainty in wind plant output and allow the plant to…
The import and export of crude oil are vastly affected by the economy of a developing country. It can be useful for the production of petroleum products. Likewise, the developing country, India is completely relying on the import of crude oil from…
Global experience in cold Gas Oil Gravity Drainage (cGOGD) recovery with crestal gas injection of infield produced gas is very limited, but is a proven economic recovery method for fractured carbonate reservoirs in North Oman. Despite decades of…
Transportation of natural gas extracted from subterranean reservoirs is subject to several risks introduced by the presence of water. These risks can be mitigated through subsea dehydration, the design of which requires an accurate understanding of…
Deep learning technology can fit the nonlinear relations between different logging sequences. It solves the prediction problems that cannot be effectively disposed by traditional physical or empirical models. However, these deep learning models lack…
Power-to-Gas technologies (PtG) are regarded as promising options to defossilize the energy system by converting and storing renewable electricity to gases. When combined with carbon capture and utilization from large point sources, such as energy…
Jurisdictions are looking into mixing hydrogen into the natural gas (NG) system to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Earlier studies have focused on well-to-wheel analysis of H2 fuel cell vehicles, using high-level estimates for…
The international crude oil maritime transportation system has always been disturbed by the external environment and its own mechanism of supply and demand, which can sometimes last for a long time. BDTI (Baltic Exchange Dirty Tanker Index) is one of…