scholarly journals The Altmark Natural Gas Field is prepared for the Enhanced Gas Recovery Pilot Test with CO2

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 6777-6785 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kühn ◽  
A. Förster ◽  
J. Großmann ◽  
J. Lillie ◽  
P. Pilz ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 1075-1079
Author(s):  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Shu Yang Liu ◽  
Yong Chen Song ◽  
Wei Wei Jian ◽  
Duo Li ◽  
...  

CO2Sequestration with Enhanced Gas Recovery (CSEGR) is one of the efficient and attractive scenarios to reduce CO2emission and accelerate gas field to produce more natural gas simultaneously. We review the correlational experiments, simulations and economic feasibility research about technical and economic problems of CSEGR. And the potential of natural gas increase production and CO2emission reduction in China by CSEGR is calculated. The pilot projects and simulation results show that CSEGR is technically feasible when suitable injection strategies and field management are implemented. However, economic feasibility is available only via policies of carbon credit, allowance and trade. Accurate experimental data would ensure the authenticity of key simulation parameters and reliability of simulations, but the existed experimental data is scarce. More experimental researches should be conducted to obtain a great quantity of accurate data which can make the simulation more close to the actual situation. Accordingly, the pilot projects and large-scale applications of CSEGR could be implemented successfully.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Gou ◽  
Zhengmeng Hou ◽  
Hejuan Liu ◽  
Lei Zhou ◽  
Patrick Were

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kühn ◽  
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Maja Tesmer ◽  
Peter Pilz ◽  
Robert Meyer ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Shuyang Liu ◽  
Ramesh Agarwal ◽  
Baojiang Sun

Abstract CO2 enhanced gas recovery (CO2-EGR) is a promising, environment-friendly technology with simultaneously sequestering CO2. The goals of this paper are to conduct simulations of CO2-EGR in both homogeneous and heterogeneous reservoirs to evaluate effects of gravity and reservoir heterogeneity, and to determine optimal CO2 injection time and injection rate for achieving better natural gas recovery by employing a genetic algorithm integrated with TOUGH2. The results show that gravity segregation retards upward migration of CO2 and promotes horizontal displacement efficiency, and the layers with low permeability in heterogeneous reservoir hinder the upward migration of CO2. The optimal injection time is determined as the depleted stage, and the corresponding injection rate is optimized. The optimal recovery factors are 62.83 % and 64.75 % in the homogeneous and heterogeneous reservoirs (804.76 m × 804.76 m × 45.72 m), enhancing production by 22.32 × 103 and 23.00 × 103 t of natural gas and storing 75.60 × 103 and 72.40 × 103 t CO2 with storage efficiencies of 70.55 % and 67.56 %, respectively. The cost/benefit analysis show that economic income of about 8.67 and 8.95 million USD can be obtained by CO2-EGR with optimized injection parameters respectively. This work could assist in determining optimal injection strategy and economic benefits for industrial scale gas reservoirs.


Author(s):  
Noriyuki Muraoka ◽  
Yuji Hayashi ◽  
Katsuhiro Nakamura ◽  
Toshiaki Yamaguchi ◽  
Kazunori Ono ◽  
...  

Abstract. In the Southern Kanto Gas Field, natural gas dissolved in water has been produced for over 80 years. In order to produce the natural gas dissolved in water, formation water must be pumped from a reservoir in the gas field. The production of formation water is considered to be one of the causes of land subsidence. Because brine injection into shallow formations is expected to be effective to mitigate land subsidence, our association is planning to conduct the pilot test study. In this test, the production and injection of brine are going to be performed, and we will observe a deformation of the shallow formation and a change of ground level and the bottom hole pressure. As a result of these tests, if the land subsidence mitigation effect by injection into shallow formation is confirmed, it is expected that it will be connected to increased production and to reservoir management in consideration of land subsidence mitigation in the future.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel Mohsin ◽  
Abdul Salam Abd ◽  
Ahmad Abushaikha

Abstract Condensate banking in natural gas reservoirs can hinder the productivity of production wells dramatically due to the multiphase flow behaviour around the wellbore. This phenomenon takes place when the reservoir pressure drops below the dew point pressure. In this work, we model this occurrence and investigate how the injection of CO2 can enhance the well productivity using novel discretization and linearization schemes such as mimetic finite difference and operator-based linearization from an in-house built compositional reservoir simulator. The injection of CO2 as an enhanced recovery technique is chosen to assess its value as a potential remedy to reduce carbon emissions associated with natural gas production. First, we model a base case with a single producer where we show the deposition of condensate banking around the well and the decline of pressure and production with time. In another case, we inject CO2 into the reservoir as an enhanced gas recovery mechanism. In both cases, we use fully tensor permeability and unstructured tetrahedral grids using mimetic finite difference (MFD) method. The results of the simulation show that the gas and condensate production rates drop after a certain production plateau, specifically the drop in the condensate rate by up to 46%. The introduction of a CO2 injector yields a positive impact on the productivity and pressure decline of the well, delaying the plateau by up to 1.5 years. It also improves the productivity index by above 35% on both the gas and condensate performance, thus reducing production rate loss on both gas and condensate by over 8% and the pressure, while in terms of pressure and drawdown, an improvement of 2.9 to 19.6% is observed per year.


2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 684
Author(s):  
Peter Cook ◽  
Yildiray Cinar ◽  
Guy Allinson ◽  
Charles Jenkins ◽  
Sandeep Sharma ◽  
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Successful completion of the first stage of the CO2CRC Otway Project demonstrated safe and effective CO2 storage in the Naylor depleted gas field and confirmed our ability to model and monitor subsurface behaviour of CO2. It also provided information of potential relevance to CO2 enhanced gas recovery (EGR) and to opportunities for CO2 storage in depleted gas fields. Given the high CO2 concentration of many gas fields in the region, it is important to consider opportunities for integrating gas production, CO2 storage in depleted gas fields, and CO2-EGR optimisation within a production schedule. The use of CO2-EGR may provide benefits through the recovery of additional gas resources and a financial offset to the cost of geological storage of CO2 from gas processing or other anthropogenic sources, given a future price on carbon. Globally, proven conventional gas reserves are 185 trillion m3 (BP Statistical Review, 2009). Using these figures and Otway results, a replacement efficiency of 60 % (% of pore space available for CO2 storage following gas production) indicates a global potential storage capacity—in already depleted plus reserves—of approximately 750 Gigatonnes of CO2. While much of this may not be accessible for technical or economic reasons, it is equivalent to more than 60 years of total global stationary emissions. This suggests that not only gas—as a lower carbon fuel—but also depleted gas fields, have a major role to play in decreasing CO2 emissions worldwide.


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