Goldeneye: Tomorrow Never Dies (or a field Only Lives Twice)

Marshall, John D.; Tucker, Owain; Lovelock, C.; Darker, Sebastian J.; Annia, Carlos; Hognestad, Jon Borge

doi:10.1144/pgc8.18

Cited by 4 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 28 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Existing studies focus on fluid flow and caprock integrity by comparing overpressure with a limiting fracture pressure in addition to evaluating potential leakage pathways (e.g. Geel et al, 2006;der Meer et al, 2006;Shell, 2008;Eigestad et al, 2009;Estublier and Lackner, 2009;Hortle et al, 2009;Gapillou et al, 2009;Oldenburg et al, 2011;Pham et al, 2011;Jenkins et al, 2012b;MUSTANG, 2014a,b;Buscheck et al, 2016;Marshall et al, 2017). Implicit fracturing in the context of caprock integrity was investigated for the In Salah site (Gor et al, 2013a;Gor and Prevost, 2013;Gor et al, 2013b;Preisig and Prévost, 2011;, for the Goldeneye field (Peterhead) (Akhurst et al, 2017;McDermott et al, 2016;Davison et al, 2012), for the Lacq project (Pourtoy et al, 2013), and for a generic depleted Dutch field (Orlic et al, 2011a).…”

Section: Caprock Integrity Modelling Studies Of the Depleted Pilot Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Caprock integrity and public perception studies of carbon storage in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs

Paluszny

Graham

Daniels

et al. 2020

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Capture and subsurface storage of CO 2 is widely viewed as being a necessary component of any strategy to minimise and control the continued increase in average global temperatures. Existing oil and gas reservoirs can be re-used for carbon storage, providing a substantial fraction of the vast amounts of subsurface storage space that will be required for the implementation of carbon storage at an industrial scale. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in depleted reservoirs aims to ensure subsurface containment, both to satisfy safety considerations, and to provide confidence that the containment will continue over the necessary timescales. Other technical issues that need to be addressed include the risk of unintended subsurface events, such as induced seismicity. Minimisation of these risks is key to building confidence in CCS technology, both in relation to financing/liability, and the development and maintenance of public acceptance. These factors may be of particular importance with regard to CCS projects involving depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, where the mechanical effects of production activities must also be considered. Given the importance of caprock behaviour in this context, several previously published geomechanical caprock studies of depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs are identified and reviewed, comprising experimental and numerical studies of fourteen CCS pilot sites in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, in seven countries (

show abstract

Section: Caprock Integrity Modelling Studies Of the Depleted Pilot Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Caprock integrity and public perception studies of carbon storage in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs

Paluszny

Graham

Daniels

et al. 2020

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Gluyas et al's (2016) keynote broadens the discussion to look at the potential response to the environmental challenges confronting the industry with discussion of future options and opportunities. Marshall et al (2017) offer an elegant description of the Goldeneye Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project that was planned to revitalize this former gas-condensate reservoir in the Moray Firth (funding for the CCS competition was withdrawn shortly after the conference). Both papers demonstrate clearly that there is remaining value in mature and depleted reservoirs but unconventional thinking and incentivized approaches are needed.…”

Section: Late-life Fields Redevelopment and The Next Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whilst the core workshop presentations are not included in this volume, there are papers on Welton (Steventon & Bowman 2016), Cygnus (Catto et al 2017), Shearwater (Jones et al 2017) and Goldeneye (Marshall et al 2017), which refer to some of the cores on display.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 years of learning – a platform for present value and future success. An overview

Levell

Bowman

2017

PGC

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

chosen to reflect the aim of enabling those Earth scientists and subsurface practitioners currently working on hydrocarbon resources across NW Europe to make optimal use of the considerable past investments in the largely offshore facilities, as well as the scientific understanding and knowledge gained. The ultimate focus is to maximize the safe and effective use of the investments to create and deliver resources for a low-cost energyhungry society. A modest number of papers also specifically looked forward to the re-purposing of oil and gas facilities for a lowcarbon-energy future. The conference was attended by 530 delegates. These included postgraduate students from the new Doctoral Training Scheme in Petroleum Geology based at Herriot Watt, as well as seven prizewinning Masters students whose attendance was generously sponsored by the late Dave Roberts' widow, Robin. Two Best Paper awards were sponsored by BP and Shell, and named (with the kind permission of their respective families) in honour of the late Dave Roberts (BP) and Peter Ziegler (Shell). These were awarded to: † Nick Schofield of Aberdeen University for 'Intrusive and extrusive sequences and their interactions with hydrocarbon systems-a key geoscience challenge?'; † Fred Hughes, of Third Energy for 'North Yorkshire's sleeping giant'. Conference and proceedings structure The conference was originally organized around a series of themes covering the full range of the Upstream Oil and Gas Value Chain, and spanning all of the main and less well-known plays and pay fairways. Sessions included, for example, Key geoscience challenges, Key field and fairways, Key geophysics challenges, and Petroleum systems and fairways. Of the 62 oral presenters who gave presentations, 32 authors actually submitted papers. Seven of the poster presenters subsequently stepped up to submit full written papers. Reflecting this, the structure of this volume reflects the Table 1. Core workshop displays Stratigraphic age Reservoir/field Region Eocene Catcher 28/9a-6 28/9a-2

show abstract

The Goldeneye Field, Blocks 14/29a and 20/4b, UK North Sea

Stewart

Marshall

2020

Memoirs

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Goldeneye gas-condensate field lies in the Moray Firth Basin in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) approximately 100 km off the NE coast of Scotland. The field was discovered in 1996 as a normally pressured accumulation with estimated gas-initially-in-place (GIIP) of 810 bcf with a thin oil rim in the Lower Cretaceous Captain Sandstone Member in a three-way, dip-closed structure. Field development included five production wells, with first gas achieved in 2004. Goldeneye was steadily produced under moderate aquifer support until cessation of production (COP) in 2010 following water breakthrough at the wells. Over its lifetime Goldeneye has produced 568 bcf of gas and 23 MMbbl of condensate.Around the time of COP, the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Commercialisation Competition was announced, and Goldeneye was evaluated as a candidate. The removal of significant volumes of hydrocarbons through production left remaining capacity that could be refilled without reservoir pressure significantly exceeding virgin conditions. However, following withdrawal of funding from the UK Government in 2015, the project was put on hold. Since then additional subsurface work has been conducted to support the successful abandonment of the development wells, which had previously been suspended since 2010.

show abstract

Goldeneye: Tomorrow Never Dies (or a field Only Lives Twice)

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

Caprock integrity and public perception studies of carbon storage in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs

Caprock integrity and public perception studies of carbon storage in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs

The Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 years of learning – a platform for present value and future success. An overview

The Goldeneye Field, Blocks 14/29a and 20/4b, UK North Sea

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About