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Abstract Coal Seam gas (CSG) is a rapidly growing industry in Queensland, Australia. Water is produced as a by-product of the CSG production process, with the management of this associated water (called CSG water) widely accepted as one of the industry's main challenges. The Australia Pacific ...
Abstract The single largest factor for success in incident free operations is leadership. Leaders are responsible and accountable not only for getting results but getting results in the right way and behaving in accordance with company values. Leaders at every level are expected to foster and reinforce ...
Abstract In order to avoid increasing the total environmental footprint of an operation while trying to decrease one of its component parts, a modification for use in a freshwater environment of the traditional 96-hr LC50 toxicity test for drilling fluids and a screening tool for using an appropriate ...
Abstract Most companies have community outreach efforts and convince themselves it is integral to their standing in the community, their reputation, their ability to recruit the best candidates, among a host of other potential benefits. Yet there are often gaps in approach and coverage that result ...
Abstract Malaria and other vector-borne diseases can greatly impact industrial activities caused by excess lost work time and reduced production output to compromised quality of life of employees. In response, a major development project in Papua New Guinea commissioned the design and implementation ...
ABSTRACT The PNG LNG Project has established a Community Development Support Plan (CDSP) with the purpose of mitigating potentially harmful effects and promoting the development of conditions conducive to enhancing the livelihoods of communities in the Project Impact Area (PIA). The CDSP provides for ...
ABSTRACT The scale and extent of the Papua New Guinea LNG Project, compounded by the complex and fractionalized multiethnic composition of the population, presents significant challenges to conventional community engagement. Construction requires approximately 2,000 ha of land, comprising two large ...
Abstract If we have learned anything from the amazing gains and re-engineering that has occurred in exploration and other industries, it is that information technology, when properly applied, changes the rules of the game. Venture capital firms are always looking for companies that can secure a "first-mover?? ...
Abstract When implementing an intelligent oilfield strategy it is tempting to focus on smart technology: advanced applications, novel instrumentation and collaborative environments. The data architecture is often overlooked. As deployments increase, it is important to review the industry data foundation ...
Abstract Description: Industrial Capital Project Engineering Design solutions are heavily dependent on large scale custom integration services efforts to hand over key information to the Operations and Maintenance application environment. Individual Owner/Operators must each redundantly bear the development ...
Abstract This paper discusses a laboratory evaluation of the feasibility of different chemical flooding strategies and a simulation study to optimize the feasible strategies for a west-central Saskatchewan heavy oil reservoir. The integrated experimental approach was composed of oil/brine interfacial ...
Abstract High molecular weight polyacrylamides are key components in oil recovery, particularly in the stimulation, production, and enhanced oil recovery of oil and gas wells. These polymers can be divided into three broad classes based on their physical state: dry polyacrylamides (DPAMs), emulsion ...
Abstract Commercial polymer floods have generally used partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) as the polymer of choice, since HPAM generates high viscosities in relatively fresh brines at a reasonable cost. In high salinity or hardness brines, the anionic charges on the HPAM polymer chain interact ...
Abstract Nanoparticle dispersions (NPDs) are an emerging new technology in the oil and gas industry which can be applied to EOR, well remediation, and formation damage removal to stimulate hydrocarbon production using the unique properties that colloidal particles possess. Nanoparticles have a high ...
Abstract Sulphonated polymers are used in oilfield for scale inhibition. In this study, Al-sulphonated polycarboxylic acid (SPCA) hybrid nanoparticles were prepared by an environmentally friendly approach. Particle size of these materials was controlled at about 80 nm by applying hydrothermal synthetic ...
Abstract Novel amphiphobic nanoparticles based on functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNT) have shown promising applications for enhanced oil recovery, by lowering the water/oil interfacial tension upon adsorption or chemical reaction catalyzed by these nanoparticles. Challenges for this novel approach ...
Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO2) has been used commercially to recover oil from geologic formations by enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies for over 40 years. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and its predecessor organizations have supported a large number of laboratory and field ...
Abstract New polymers that are stable in harsh environments (high salinity/hardness and high temperature) are in high demand because of the need for chemical EOR in oil reservoirs with these conditions. Commonly used partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamides (HPAM) have been successfully used in the field ...
Abstract In oil producing regions like the US Mid-Continent, there are a large number of mature conventional oil fields that have reached or are approaching their production limit by conventional techniques, however, current strong oil prices and security issues justify additional EOR/IOR efforts. Air ...
Abstract Since the late 1970's, offshore operations have expanded throughout the world in Africa, South America, the Middle East, Asia, and in other areas. Before this, onshore drillings were developed since the end of last century. Restrictions on the petroleum exploration activities around the world ...