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Petroleum Engineering Field Lifecycle Overview

This document provides an overview of the petroleum engineering field life cycle, including definitions of key concepts and descriptions of the main phases: exploration, appraisal, development, production, and abandonment. The goals of exploration and appraisal are to identify and evaluate oil and gas reservoirs. Development then involves planning well placement and production facilities. The production phase focuses on extracting and processing the oil and gas. Finally, abandonment decommissions wells and removes infrastructure when a field is no longer economically viable.

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Topics covered

  • geophysical activities,
  • development options,
  • data analysis,
  • source rock,
  • technical integrity,
  • production monitoring,
  • commercial viability,
  • reservoir rock,
  • computer modeling,
  • oil recovery mechanism
528 views28 pages

Petroleum Engineering Field Lifecycle Overview

This document provides an overview of the petroleum engineering field life cycle, including definitions of key concepts and descriptions of the main phases: exploration, appraisal, development, production, and abandonment. The goals of exploration and appraisal are to identify and evaluate oil and gas reservoirs. Development then involves planning well placement and production facilities. The production phase focuses on extracting and processing the oil and gas. Finally, abandonment decommissions wells and removes infrastructure when a field is no longer economically viable.

Uploaded by

Radu Chibzui
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
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Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Topics covered

  • geophysical activities,
  • development options,
  • data analysis,
  • source rock,
  • technical integrity,
  • production monitoring,
  • commercial viability,
  • reservoir rock,
  • computer modeling,
  • oil recovery mechanism
  • Field Life-Cycle Introduction: Introduces the concept and phases of the field life-cycle in petroleum engineering.
  • Goals of Field Development: Outlines the objectives for understanding the field development in oil and gas projects.
  • Petroleum System: Discusses the components and differences between conventional and unconventional petroleum systems.
  • Oil & Gas Industry Overview: Provides a broad overview of upstream, midstream, and downstream segments of the oil and gas industry.
  • Onshore vs. Offshore Rigs: Compares capital investment, day rates, and structures of onshore and offshore rigs.
  • Oil and Gas Operations Flow: Illustrates the comprehensive flow chart of oil and gas operations, depicting various facilities and processes.
  • Development Lifecycle: Explains the stages of the development lifecycle in oil and gas fields from exploration to abandonment.

Department Petroleum Engineering

The field life-cycle

Department of Petroleum Engineering


Mathias Mitschanek/17.08.2015

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WHY ROB A BANK?

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GOAL OF FIELD DEVELOPMENT MODULE

Understand the bigger picture of an oil and gas project


Basic understanding of development phases
Understand how reservoir rock and fluid properties
influence the development

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PETROLEUM SYSTEM
Definition
A petroleum system encompasses
a pod of active source rock and all
genetically related oil and gas
accumulations.

Conventional system
Elements are separate
Unconventional system
Number of Elements can be the
same
E.g. shale source

Elements
Source rock
Reservoir rock
Seal rock
Overburden

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BIGGER PICTURE

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BIGGER PICTURE

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ON VS. OFFSHORE RIG


Onshore rig

Capital Investment:
10(s) Mio. USD
Day rate:
10(s) Tsd. USD

Offshore rig

100(s) Mio. USD


100(s) Tsd. USD
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OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS

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OIL AND GAS CASH FLOW

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Development Lifecycle

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DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE

Exploration
Appraisal
Development
Production
Abandonment

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EXPLORATION
is about finding oil and gas fields. Main goal is to identify
and deliver commercially viable field development
opportunities. The following geological and geophysical
(G&G) activities would take place:

Conduct seismic surveys


Process and interpret the seismic data and map the potential reservoir
select exploration well locations
drill and evaluate exploration well data
core analysis to establish porosity and permeability
logging data to determine porosity, water and hydrocarbon saturation
production test data to determine flow rates and maximum production potential
PVT to allow reservoir fluid analysis and ascertain oil/gas quality and the shrinkage or
expansion factor
build a computer model of the reservoir and identify and where possible remove major
uncertainties by further data analysis, seismic reprocessing etc

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EXPLORATION

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APPRAISAL
Exploration phase of life cycle closely intertwines with the
next stage of processing which is Appraisal . The objective
of Appraisal is to obtain information about the reservoir in
order to make a decision whether or not to proceed with
development of the field. This stage comprises the following
activities:

planning and execution of a data acquisition programme of additional seismic,


reprocessing existing seismic data to obtain enhanced results and the drilling of
appraisal wells
evaluation of the results from the seismic and appraisal drilling activities
using the information from the seismic and drilling programmes to update the computer
reservoir simulation models
conduct initial conceptual field development planning and an environmental impact
assessment (EIA) study of these conceptual plans

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DEVELOPMENT
The initial phase of field development planning could involve
the assessment of more than one development option. Four
components of a development plan can be used to describe
each option:
Reservoir : number, location, type of wells; assessment of oil
recovery mechanism; assessment of production over the
development stage
Wells : the design of wells to meet production requirements
Facilities: process facilities, infrastructure, terminal/export facilities
Operating and Maintenance strategies: manning level, daily
production level, support requirements, for ex. helicopters, supply
vessels

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DEVELOPMENT

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DEVELOPMENT

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DEVELOPMENT

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DEVELOPMENT

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DEVELOPMENT

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PRODUCTION PHASE
Production phase is targeted at bringing the well fluids to the
surface and preparing them for use in refinery or processing
plant. All production and maintenance activities would be
carried out to meet strict safety and environmental policies
and procedures . The main activities consist of the following:

regulate production and injection to meet approved plans for the quantity and
quality of product.
monitor and record all information to manage the reservoir, wells and
facilities
This could lead to further reservoir development or modifications to the
facilities
plan and schedule all production and maintenance activities to minimise
production deferment and operating costs
carry out maintenance to safeguard the technical integrity of all wells and
facilities and ensure their availability over the life of the field.
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DEVELOPMENT

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PRODUCTION PHASE

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PRODUCTION PHASE

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PRODUCTION PHASE

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PRODUCTION PHASE

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PRODUCTION PHASE

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ABANDONMENT PHASE
The end of the life of the field is when it is no longer economic for the
operator to continue production, i.e. when the operating costs exceed
the revenue from the sale of production.
It is becoming increasingly common around the world that offshore
facilities must be dismantled and removed and the site restored to its
original condition. The major activities during the decommissioning
phase are:

plug and abandon wells by putting cement plugs into the wells at various
depths and remove the well-head and casing to a depth of about 2 metres
below the surface or seabed
dismantle and remove the jacket and all facilities from the site, ensuring that
there is no contamination of the environment from any oil or waste material
remaining in the process facilities
restore the site to its original condition
conduct a final environmental impact study
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