Imperial College London
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Dr Craig Smalley

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Alane:2015,
author = {Alane, A and Lumsden, PJ and Smalley, PC and Hallam, R and Salino, PA and Wells, SJ and Primmer, TJ},
journal = {JPT, Journal of Petroleum Technology},
pages = {66--68},
title = {A technical-limits approach applied to maximizing gasfield recovery},
volume = {67},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Maximizing recovery of hydrocarbons from oil and gas fields represents responsible asset management and is extremely valuable to both the operator and the host country. Successful pursuit of this goal involves a complex combination of technical, commercial, organizational, and human factors. Reservoir Technical Limits (RTL) system has provided a systematic framework to identify new recovery-improving activities across a portfolio of fields, generate clear ownership of the activities by field teams and individuals, and identify technology requirements (existing or new) to progress the opportunities. The system is used to evaluate the life-of- field recovery potential of oil and gas fields, and the steps required to achieve this potential, on the basis of the key factors including depth of technical knowledge across multiple functions, innovation, creativity, and awareness of latest technologies, and understanding field specificity, so that identified opportunities are properly applicable to the field under review. The system's efficiency-factor framework represents the overall recovery factor for the oil field as a product of four component efficiency factors, pore-scale displacement, drainage, sweep, and cutoffs. ach efficiency factor is given as a fraction between zero and unity and used as a multiplier in the recovery calculation. Once characterized, the base-case recovery factor is bench marked against a screened set of analogs. This identifies whether the recovery factor is high, normal, or low compared with analog fields, giving an idea of the likely potential for recovery-factor improvement.
AU  - Alane,A
AU  - Lumsden,PJ
AU  - Smalley,PC
AU  - Hallam,R
AU  - Salino,PA
AU  - Wells,SJ
AU  - Primmer,TJ
EP  - 68
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 0149-2136
SP  - 66
TI  - A technical-limits approach applied to maximizing gasfield recovery
T2  - JPT, Journal of Petroleum Technology
VL  - 67
ER  -
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