Low carbon power generation for offshore oil and gas production

Voldsund, Mari; Reyes-Lúa, Adriana; Fu, Chao; Ditaranto, Mario; Nekså, Petter; Mazzetti, Marit J.; Brekke, Olaf; Bindingsbø, Arne Ulrik; Grainger, David J.; Pettersen, Jostein

doi:10.1016/j.ecmx.2023.100347

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“…The third line of the research focuses on examining the application of specific decarbonization options to oil and gas companies, including the integration of renewable energy sources in the processes of production and use of hydrocarbons. Some studies related to renewable energy sources are targeted, focusing on the application of renewable energy sources in a particular region or fields with hard-to-recover reserves [46][47][48][49][50][51][52], or investigate the possibility of using hydrogen-like low-carbon fuel [53]. Other studies examine different energy strategies, the possibilities of using renewable energy in oil and gas production and investments in this sphere [54][55][56][57].…”

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Renewable Energy Sources in Decarbonization: The Case of Foreign and Russian Oil and Gas Companies

Romasheva

Ilinova

2023

Sustainability

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The necessity of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and solve the problem of climate change, technological progress and the conscious climate policy of many countries has led to the transformation of the world economy and power industry towards low-carbon development, which should be based on renewable energy sources. Oil and gas companies are actively criticized by the international community for contributing significantly to total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, with emissions from hydrocarbon fuel combustion being the largest. In order to meet the tightening environmental requirements and regulations, oil and gas companies implement various initiatives for decarbonization and reducing the carbon footprint, including operating with renewables, whose scale, essence and variety depend on the decarbonization model. This paper attempts to identify, first, how renewable sources of energy have been integrated into the oil and gas companies; second, what decarbonization models are possible; and third, what the major determining factors in the formation of their decarbonization model and the scale of renewable usage are. Based on an extensive literature review, survey, websites and corporate sustainability reports of Russian and foreign oil and gas companies, models of decarbonization and the role of renewables in decarbonization are defined and the classification and interpretation of determining factors are offered, justifying their impact on the decarbonization model and the scale of renewable usage. The authors present an assessment of factors and prove the correlation between the factors under consideration and the scale and diversity of renewable usage by oil and gas companies, confirming the adequacy of the offered approaches.

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Renewable Energy Sources in Decarbonization: The Case of Foreign and Russian Oil and Gas Companies

Romasheva

Ilinova

2023

Sustainability

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“…Several alternative developed concepts that could also achieve significant emission reductions include fuel switching, CO 2 capture and storage, and the use of renewable energy sources combined with energy storage. Combined cycle gas turbines and offshore wind farms together with gas turbines are technically mature technologies and can provide some emission reductions [41]. Also, the transformation of companies' business models occurred in the gas sector earlier than in the oil sector.…”

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Economic Strategy for Developing the Oil Industry in Mexico by Incorporating Environmental Factors

Semenova,

Martínez Santoyo

2023

Sustainability

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This article presents a methodological approach that can more effectively solve environmental problems related to the activities of oil companies. Traditionally, environmental factors have been seen as merely an additional cost that obstructs economic development. The contribution of the authors’ approach lies in the fact that it substantiates the need and the possibility to increase the potential for the functioning and development of the country, for the case of Mexico, while considering environmental factors on a scientific basis. This study proposes a methodology and, therefore, the selection of a strategy for the development of Mexico’s oil industry, ensuring an increase in its environmental and economic efficiency and the sustainability of its territorial functioning and development. The methodology presented in this article develops the concept of sub-potentials, which include the sub-potentials of reproduction, protection, management and development, and reserve. Sub-potentials, particularly the protection sub-potential, integrate environmental components. Neglecting environmental factors leads to an increase in the sub-potentials of the threat and deterrence. Environmental factors are analyzed as a part of a unified strategy for the development of the country, when presenting the formation of a comprehensive system of indicators using management guidelines and a three-dimensional assessment of the criteria for the development of the country’s oil and gas sector. The consequence of using this methodology is the integration of the environmental component of the development in the oil and gas sector into the country’s unified socio-economic strategy. This can effectively solve environmental problems and achieve socio-economic development goals. Consequently, incorporating the environmental aspect based on the proposed methodology permits the effective utilization of society’s limited resources. The application of this systematic approach, encompassing all levels of sustainable strategic development—the oil company, the industry, and the country—also yields additional synergies.

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“…For offshore oil and gas platforms (OOGPs) in deep and remote seas, it is not technically and economically feasible to connect onshore power due to expensive submarine cables [1] . Currently, the power demand of offshore platforms is mainly met by gas/oil turbine generators driven by self-produced oil or gas, leading to a significant amount of carbon emission [2] . To reduce energy consumption as well as carbon emission, offshore platforms are seeking new solutions in their energy supply system.…”

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Wind-storage-turbine Bundled Technology for the Power Supply of Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms

Li,

Yang,

Sun

et al. 2023

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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The offshore oil and gas industry is embracing renewable energy such as wind power to reduce carbon emissions. However, the intermittent characteristics of renewable power generation bring new challenges to the operation of existing offshore oil and gas platforms featured in minor load variation. To address the concern, this paper proposes a coordinative control strategy for offshore oil and gas platforms with floating wind power integrated. A saturated filter controller is applied to decompose the wind power fluctuation and smooth it with energy storage and a gas/oil turbine generator. A feedforward control unit is embedded into the controller to compensate for the wind power variation caused by the floating foundation. The proposed strategy is validated using a model extracted from a real offshore oil and gas platform. The result shows that the proposed strategy can validly eliminate the impact of wind power volatility.

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Low carbon power generation for offshore oil and gas production

Cited by 8 publications

References 56 publications

Renewable Energy Sources in Decarbonization: The Case of Foreign and Russian Oil and Gas Companies

Renewable Energy Sources in Decarbonization: The Case of Foreign and Russian Oil and Gas Companies

Economic Strategy for Developing the Oil Industry in Mexico by Incorporating Environmental Factors

Wind-storage-turbine Bundled Technology for the Power Supply of Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms

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