Perspectives on the Design and Planning of Oil Field Infrastructure

Integrated Oil-Field Management: From Well Placement and Planning to Production Scheduling

“…Assuming. (1) All reservoirs are horizontal and planar, but disconnected (2) All reservoirs are undersaturated (i.e., pressure exceeds bubble-point pressure) (3) All reservoirs give the same fluid product, and all three phases (oil, water, and gas) are compressible (capillary pressure is negligible in all reservoirs) (4) All wells (producer and injection) are vertical (although a well can pass through multiple reservoirs, it can access only one reservoir at a time) (5) Manifold capacities remain constant over time (6) Installation of an element takes no longer than one time period defined in our multiperiod model (7) No element can be installed in the last period of the planning horizon (8) Each well (existing or potential) is preallocated to some manifolds/centers (existing or potential) based on some criteria such as distance, from which the best allocations will be selected (this condition can be relaxed, but will increase computation time 8 ) Allowing.…”

“…However, many studies in the literature have severely approximated the subsurface behavior while claiming to place wells optimally. Such studies can be classified as surface infrastructure planning studies (see ref ). They involve planning of the installation/operation of manifolds, processing centers, and their allocations and interconnections.…”

Supply chain networks servicing upstream operations in oil and gas fields after the shale revolution

“…Tavallali et al 21,22 have performed perspective studies on the O&G industry from the process systems engineering point of view.…”

Process systems engineering perspective on the planning and development of oil fields

“…Much work exists on the exploitation and management of conventional oil and gas reserves with literature reviews on specific application topics, such as well placement, well trajectory optimization, gas‐lift optimization, and infrastructure planning, and methodology topics, such as derivative‐free optimization in oil‐field operations, adjoint‐based optimization of production, and general‐purpose optimization methods . We present a process systems engineering (PSE) perspective on the state of the art in deterministic methods for the planning and development of a conventional oil field over its lifetime.…”

“…A field normally has shared network(s) of surface facilities to transport and process the fluids produced from the reservoirs to separate oil, gas, and water. Typical surface facilities include Wellheads that gather the multiphase fluids from individual producer wells. Production manifolds (headers) that collect/mix the flows from the wellheads. Separation centers that process the flows from the production manifolds. Flow lines that transfer fluids between wellheads, manifolds, and separation centers. Valves that regulate pressures across the surface network to drive the flows across the surface network. Long pipelines that supply the oil and gas from the separation centers to other centers, markets, tankers, or floating storage and offloading vessels (FSOs). …”