scholarly journals Flare Gas Recovery System Using Integrated Reciprocating Compressor in Gathering Station C

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamado Sitorus ◽  
Ratnayu Sitaresmi ◽  
Hari Hari Oetomo
Keyword(s):  
Gas Flow ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Reciprocating Compressor ◽  
Gas Recovery ◽  
Recovery System ◽  
Gas Flares ◽  
Production Wells ◽  
The Government ◽  
Discharge Pressure

<em>Flare gas recovery is needed to handling gas flares in oil and gas fields. Field C production wells experience a decline as a result the gas flow pressure in the wellhead becomes low. Low pressure gas enters the LP separator then is burned as a gas flare containing CO<sub>2</sub> of 33.38 mol and GHV of 1048.9 BTU / ft3. The flare gas recovery system is applied to reduce gas flares with the integrated reciprocating compressor unit for compression at suction pressure ± 10 psig, discharge pressure ± 100 psig and total flowrate ± 1 MMSCFD. Then the CO<sub>2</sub> removal plant produces gas with a CO<sub>2</sub> content of 7.09% mol and GHV of 1314.9 BTU / ft3. During operation, requires gas fuel ranging 11 MSCFD and the actual power ranges from 36.46 HP and 39.64 BHP. Economic aspects analysis, gas flare monetization for the period of 2015 until 2022, gross reserves 2,062,917 MMBTU and gross income of US$ 6,026,744. The operating cost of the the lease purchase scheme, the government US $ 2,079,696 and the contractor US $ 1,386,464 with POT 1.7 years and IRR 151.5%.</em>

scholarly journals NEW APPROACH TO FLARE GAS RECOVERY SYSTEM USING INTEGRATED RECIPROCATING COMPRESSORS FOR SOLVING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE BY MONETIZING GAS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Ratnayu Sitaresmi ◽  
Tamado Sitorus ◽  
Hari Karyadi Oetomo ◽  
Doddy Abdassah ◽  
Luluan Almanna Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Gas Flow ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Co2 Removal ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Gas Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Recovery System ◽  
Production Wells

Flare gas is light hydrocarbon gas, by product of any petroleum industry activities, that is flared; and it could not pass into production facilities due its to low pressure. The gas flare volume frequently is significant, causing greenhouse gas emissions which gives serious environmental issue. Aims: The purpose of this research is to utilize flare gas in oil and gas fields to reduce environmental issue. Methodology and Results: Flare gas in an oil producing field is compressed to produce higher pressure gas flow, by using three one-stage Integrated Reciprocating Compressors to enter the production trunk line. The gas is flown to CO2 Removal Plant, as the gas would be gas sales. The subject field in West Java, the production wells experiences pressure decline; resulting the wellhead flowing pressure becomes low, so the gas is being flared. The gas flare recovery system is economically profitable both for purchase and rental scenarios. Renting the equipment is more profitable and has lower technical risk, because all risks is burdened to rental service provider. Conclusion, significance and impact study: Monetizing flare gas will reduce environmental issue, and it is utilized for own use or gas sales. The best Economics Scenario is rental scenario.

Unconventional Waste & Flare Gas Recovery System UFGRS in New Circular Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ahmed Soliman ◽  
Samusideen A Salu ◽  
Abdullah Y Al-Aiderous ◽  
Nisar Ahmad Ansari ◽  
Khamis Al-Hajri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Gas Flaring ◽  
Gas Recovery ◽  
Recovery System ◽  
Innovative Idea ◽  
Purge Gas

Abstract Keeping pace with the rest of the world on reducing the greenhouse gas emission, Saudi Aramco embarked on an aggressive program to minimize or cut routine flaring and energy resources used in producing oil and gas through policies, standards and inhouse innovations. The innovative Unconventional Waste & Flare Gas Recovery System UFGRS has supported the corporate strategy to minimize or eliminate routine flaring with minimum CAPEX and OPEX. This paper present in detail the innovative Ejector Based Unconventional Waste/Flare Gas Recovery System (UFGRS) without using gas compressors. The objective of the project is to eliminate the hydrocarbon gas release to atmosphere for any upset flameout scenario from GOSP-A massive flare & relief system and continuously recover 1.825 Billion Standard Cubic Feet per year (1.825 BSCFY) of valuable purge gas with the lowest CAPEX and OPEX. Conventional Flare Gas Recovery System (FGRS) using gas compressors is the normal choice deployed in many facilities to recover the routine gas flaring but it was found to have high CAPEX and OPEX (maintenance, high power consumption & labor intensive) compared to the value of the recovered gas. Also, the compressors based FGRS is more complex and less reliable than the ejector (static) based FGRS. In addition, the innovative FGRS is capable of handling high turndown ratios compared to convention compressor based FGRS. Also, additional innovative parts of this idea is the integration with the existing compression system and the use of only static equipment like ejectors, pipes, valves and water seal drums to recover the waste/flare gas. The idea has very low operating cost compared to conventional flare gas recovery systems, apart from significant gas savings. The unconventional FGRS system was proven successfully in December 2020. The system is currently in operation for 8 months without any interruption and managed to eliminate the total design routine gas flaring rate of 1.825 BSCFY GOSP-A producing facilities. Also, the project resulted in reducing CO2 emission by 106,000 ton/year which positively contributed to the kingdom circular economy initiatives. To further enhance the ejector based FGRS, a US Patent No. 10,429,067 was granted in October 2019 to utilize the Ejector based FGRS concept for Emergency flare gas recovery. The innovative idea includes utilizing multiple ejectors in parallel with provision of different ejectors operating at different pressures that will allow the system to be used to recover flare gas over a range of different flow rates corresponding to different emergency release scenarios. Also, two new patents are under filing to utilize the liquid as motive fluid instead of the gas.

Numerical Analysis of Flare Gas Recovery Ejector

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arihant Sonawat ◽  
Abdus Samad ◽  
Afshin Goharzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Recovery ◽  
System A ◽  
Primary Fluid ◽  
Recovery System ◽  
Flow Through

Flaring and venting contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution in the upstream oil and gas industry. Present work focuses on a horizontal flow, multiphase ejector used for recovery of these flared gases. The ejector typically handles these gases being entrained by high pressure well head fluid and a comprehensive understanding is necessary to design and operate such recovery system. A CFD based analysis of the flow through the ejector has been reported in this paper. The flow domain was meshed and the mass and momentum equations for fluid flow were solved using commercial software CFX (v14.5). Euler-Euler multiphase approach was used to model different phases. The entrainment behavior of the ejector was investigated and compared for different fluid flow conditions. It was observed that for a fixed primary fluid flow rate, the entrained or secondary flow rate decreased linearly with an increase in pressure difference between exit and suction pressure. The higher was primary flow rate, the greater was the suction created ahead of the primary nozzle and greater was the amount of energy added to the entrained fluid.

scholarly journals Calculation Method for Determining the Gas Flow Rate Needed for Liquid Removal from the Bottom of the Wellbore

2021 ◽  
pp. 368-379
Author(s):  
Miel Hofmann ◽  
◽  
Sudad Al-Obaidi ◽  
I. Kamensky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Dynamics ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Production Wells ◽  
Liquid Removal ◽  
Special Studies

As a result of flooding and accumulations of liquid at the bottomholes, the operating conditions of gas wells become complicated, so that they end up self-squeezing and losing of gas production. A method is proposed for determining the technological parameters of operation of the gas wells with the purpose of removing liquid from the bottom of the wells. Data from the gas dynamics and special studies were used to develop this method, which has been tested on one of the oil and gas condensate fields. It offers the possibility to increase the accuracy of the information provided by the fund and to ensure that the production wells are operated as efficiently as possible with the use of this method. In the case of liquid accumulation in the well that is insignificant, or when water is present in the well, the technique is beneficial in that it allows determining the technological parameters of well operation and ensuring the removal of the liquid from the bottom of the well.

scholarly journals CALCULATION METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE GAS FLOW RATE NEEDED FOR LIQUID REMOVAL FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE WELLBORE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hofmann M ◽  
Sudad H Al-Obaidi ◽  
Kamensky IP
Keyword(s):  
Gas Dynamics ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Gas Flow Rate ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Production Wells ◽  
Liquid Removal ◽  
Special Studies

As a result of flooding and accumulations of liquid at the bottomholes, the operating conditions of gas wells become complicated, so that they end up selfsqueezing and losing of gas production.A method is proposed for determining the technological parameters of operation of the gas wells with the purpose of removing liquid from the bottom of the wells. Data from the gas dynamics and special studies were used to develop this method, which has been tested on one of the oil and gas condensate fields. It offers the possibility to increase the accuracy of the information provided by the fund and to ensure that the production wells are operated as efficiently as possible with the use of this method. In the case of liquid accumulation in the well that is insignificant, or when water is present in the well, the technique is beneficial in that it allows determining the technological parameters of well operation and ensuring the removal of the liquid from the bottom of the well.

What Does Rent Give to Federal Budget (on the Russia's Budget Dependence upon "Oil Dollars")

2004 ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Sharipova ◽  
I. Tcherkashin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Resource Rent ◽  
Tax Legislation ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Government

Federal tax revenues from the main sectors of the Russian economy after the 1998 crisis are examined in the article. Authors present the structure of revenues from these sectors by main taxes for 1999-2003 and prospects for 2004. Emphasis is given to an increasing dependence of budget on revenues from oil and gas industries. The share of proceeds from these sectors has reached 1/3 of total federal revenues. To explain this fact world oil prices dynamics and changes in tax legislation in Russia are considered. Empirical results show strong dependence of budget revenues on oil prices. The analysis of changes in tax legislation in oil and gas industry shows that the government has managed to redistribute resource rent in favor of the state.

Financial and Economic Support of Innovation Processes in the Russian Fuel and Energy Complex

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
L. D. Kapranova ◽  
T. V. Pogodina
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
Energy Complex ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Substantial Investment ◽  
The Government

The subject of the research is the current state of the fuel and energy complex (FEC) that ensures generation of a significant part of the budget and the innovative development of the economy.The purpose of the research was to establish priority directions for the development of the FEC sectors based on a comprehensive analysis of their innovative and investment activities. The dynamics of investment in the fuel and energy sector are considered. It is noted that large-scale modernization of the fuel and energy complex requires substantial investment and support from the government. The results of the government programs of corporate innovative development are analyzed. The results of the research identified innovative development priorities in the power, oil, gas and coal sectors of the fuel and energy complex. The most promising areas of innovative development in the oil and gas sector are the technologies of enhanced oil recovery; the development of hard-to-recover oil reserves; the production of liquefied natural gas and its transportation. In the power sector, the prospective areas are activities aimed at improving the performance reliability of the national energy systems and the introduction of digital technologies. Based on the research findings, it is concluded that the innovation activities in the fuel and energy complex primarily include the development of new technologies, modernization of the FEC technical base; adoption of state-of-the-art methods of coal mining and oil recovery; creating favorable economic conditions for industrial extraction of hard-to-recover reserves; transition to carbon-free fuel sources and energy carriers that can reduce energy consumption and cost as well as reducing the negative FEC impact on the environment.

American and Canadian Civil Actions Alleging Human Rights Violations Abroad by Oil and Gas Companies

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Horlick ◽  
Joe Cyr ◽  
Scott Reynolds ◽  
Andrew Behrman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
Forum Non Conveniens ◽  
The Government ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies ◽  
Political Question ◽  
The U.S

Under the United States Alien Tort Statute, which permits non-U.S. citizens to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts for human rights violations that are violations of the law of nations, plaintiffs have filed claims against multinational oil and gas corporations for the direct or complicit commission of such violations carried out by the government of the country in which the corporation operated. In addition to exercising jurisdiction over U.S. corporations, U.S. courts have exercised jurisdiction in cases involving non-U.S. defendants for alleged wrongful conduct against non-U.S. plaintiffs committed outside the U.S.The exercise of jurisdiction by U.S. courts over non-U.S. defendants for alleged wrongful conduct against non-U.S. plaintiffs committed outside of the U.S. raises serious questions as to the jurisdictional foundation on which the power of U.S. courts to adjudicate them rests. Defences that foreign defendants can raise against the exercise of jurisdiction by the U.S. courts are an objection to the extraterritorial assertion of jurisdiction, the act of state doctrine, the political question doctrine, forum non conveniens, and the principle of comity. These defences are bolstered by the support of the defendant’s home government and other governments.

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