The aim of SEEP2017 is to bring together the researches within the field of sustainable energy and environmental protection from all over the world.The contributed papers are grouped in 18 sessions in order to provide access to readers out of 300 contributions prepared by authors from 52 countries.We thank the distinguished plenary and keynote speakers and chairs who have kindly consented to participate at this conference. We are also grateful to all the authors for their papers and to all committee members.We believe that scientific results and professional debates shall not only be an incentive for development, but also for making new friendships and possible future scientific development projects. Increasing efforts and resources have been devoted to research during environmental studies, including the assessment of various harmful impacts from industrial, civic, business, transportation and other economy activities. Environmental impacts are usually quantified through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In recent years, footprints have emerged as efficient and useful indicators to use within LCA. The footprint assessment techniques has provided a set of tools enabling the evaluation of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) -including CO2, emissions and the corresponding effective flows on the world scale. From all such indicators, the energy footprint represents the area of forest that would be required to absorb the GHG emissions resulting from the energy consumption required for a certain activity, excluding the proportion absorbed by the oceans, and the area occupied by hydroelectric dams and reservoirs for hydropower.An overview of the virtual GHG flow trends in the international trade, associating the GHG and water footprints with the consumption of goods and services is performed. Several important indications have been obtained: (a) There are significant GHG gaps between producer's and consumer's emissions -US and EU have high absolute net imports GHG budget. (b) China is an exporting country and increasingly carries a load of GHG emission and virtual water export associated with consumption in the relevant importing countries. (c) International trade can reduce global environmental pressure by redirecting import to products produced with lower intensity of GHG emissions and lower water footprints, or producing them domestically.To develop self-sufficient regions based on more efficient processes by combining neighbouring countries can be a promising development. A future direction should be focused on two main areas: (1) To provide the self-sufficient regions based on more efficient processes by combining production of surrounding countries. (2) To develop the shared mechanism and market share of virtual carbon between trading partners regionally and internationally. HAKAN SERHAD SOYHAN 4 Development in energy sector, technological advancements, production and consumption amounts in the countries and environmental awareness give shape to industry of energy. When the dependency is taken into account in terms of natural...

This paper discusses the basis of selecting Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESPs) rather than the other methods of Artificial Lift in the development of the Khurais area, located in Saudi Arabia. It will also discuss the production strategy, project time line, design methods and well performance utilizing an online monitoring system. Khurais oilfield development is the largest oil increment in the world scheduled to be placed on-stream in 2009. The Khurais increment will add 1.2 million bpd of high-quality Arabian light crude to Saudi Arabia's production capacity. To increase the field's production, several options were evaluated and Artificial Lift utilizing ESPs was chosen as the most viable option for optimizing the Khurais production. Artificial Lifting by ESPs, in different Saudi Arabian fields including Khurais, was designed to serve several different objectives. The primary objective is the need to increase production from oil wells and fields. From a flow assurance point of view, ESPs have been used to boost wellhead pressures rather than enlarging gathering facilities to reduce the system backpressure. This mandated installation of surface control, safety shutdown, and surface & subsurface data acquisition systems along with supervisory control and monitoring equipment in control rooms. Introduction The Khurais area fields (Fields A, B and C) are located about 160 km from the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh. Khurais increment will have the capacity to produce 1.2 MMBCD of Arabian light crude by end of 2009. Field A will provide the majority of the production capacity with 1.0 MMBCD, Field B will provide 110 MBCD and Field C will contribute 90 MBCD. Prior to starting production, a six-month preinjection will be initiated to inject 2 MMBCD of treated seawater. Field A is the largest field in the increment. It was discovered in 1957 and first produced in 1963. The field is about 90 km in length and the width ranges from 5 to 17 km. There are three oil-bearing carbonate reservoirs. Arab Light crude production started from the one reservoir in 1963 and in 1981 a second reservoir was put on line. The third reservoir was never produced.

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