The optimal development planning of offshore oil and gas fields has received significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we present an efficient investment and operational planning model for this problem which is fairly generic, and is extended to include fiscal considerations. With the objective of maximizing total NPV for long-term planning horizon, the proposed non-convex multiperi...

The application of sulphide scavengers is a widely adopted practice in production and processing operations in the Oil and Gas Industry. Particularly challenging is the search and development of new chemistries, which is aimed at safeguarding the health of personnel and maintaining good protection of materials under a variety of conditions whilst being environmentally acceptable. This paper inc...

Growing global operations of oil and gas (O&G) companies is leading to knowledge and content management challenges. Organizations are rethinking and redesigning their knowledge management (KM) strategies to be responsive to evolving market dynamics, such as technological innovations (like mobility, wireless communication and geographic information systems), an extension of offshore drilling, nu...

WOG Well Optimization by Geosteering: A Pilot Software for Cooperative Modeling on Internet — IFP has recently started the development of a new data management system named WOG for “Well Optimization by Geosteering”. In this project, our aim is to distribute the information through the network so as to share knowledge. The key advantage of this software is to allow visualization for each of Int...

Recent attention regarding the impacts of oil and gas development and exploitation has focused on the unintentional release of hydrocarbons into the environment, whilst the potential negative effects of other possible avenues of environmental contamination are less well documented. In the hydrocarbon-rich and ecologically sensitive Mackenzie Delta region (NT, Canada), saline wastes associated w...

By many analyses, we shall soon be approaching 'peak oil' production — the time when annual output begins to stall in the face of ever-increasing demand. Oil companies are therefore increasing efforts to locate new sources and, in the face of the large-scale environmental problems caused by the failure of a deep-drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico, the successful development of Canada's ta...

When drilling an oil well, the well is lined by sinking a steel casing, or liner, into the drilling mud (see Figure 1). The inside of the liner forms a central pipe, and leaves an annular gap between the outside of the liner and the surrounding rock. The inside and outside of the liner are initially filled with drilling mud, which is displaced by pumping a sequence of fluids down inside the lin...

Over the past decade, there has been a surge in drilling for natural gas and oil in shale rock. Natural gas and oil extraction using high-volume, slickwater hydraulic fracturing from clustered multiwell pads using long, directionally drilled laterals (known by its popular name ‘fracking’), is an unconventional extraction process that is currently the focus of controversy. The process involves t...