Power production via North Sea Hot Brines

Auld, Alison; Hogg, Simon; Berson, Arganthaël; Gluyas, Jon

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2014.10.056

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“…Therefore, a project may decide to accept higher drilling costs and drill deep enough to produce electricity from the resource. Many studies have proposed using abandoned oil wells, or those that coproduce hot water, for geothermal schemes 58,59 . This negates the high costs and risk incurred from drilling, but is yet to be widely implemented.…”

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Geothermal energy – The global opportunity

Adams

Auld

Gluyas

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A:

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Exploitation of geothermal energy offers a consistent and secure low carbon energy supply. Geothermal energy resources are associated with a variety of geological settings, are available at temperatures ranging from a few tens of degrees to several hundred degrees and may be used for the provision of heat, power or both. Their exploration, assessment and exploitation draws from a wide range of techniques. Improvements in deep drilling and energy conversion technologies mean that many countries could develop geothermal energy systems. There are both economic and technical risks and challenges associated with geothermal energy exploitation, however the potential for geothermal resources to provide low carbon and continuous power, heat or both means they have the potential to be an increasingly important part of the energy mix for many areas of the globe.http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jopae AbstractExploitation of geothermal energy offers a consistent and secure low carbon energy supply. Geothermal energy resources are associated with a variety of geological settings, are available at temperatures ranging from a few tens of degrees to several hundred degrees and may be used for the provision of heat, power or both. Their exploration, assessment and exploitation draws from a wide range of techniques.Improvements in deep drilling and energy conversion technologies mean that many countries could develop geothermal energy systems. There are both economic and technical risks and challenges associated with geothermal energy exploitation, however the potential for geothermal resources to provide low carbon and continuous power, heat or both means they have the potential to be an increasingly important part of the energy mix for many areas of the globe.

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Geothermal energy – The global opportunity

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Gluyas

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A:

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“…In a recent study, Auld et al [11] examined the power production potential for a suite of oilfields in the Northern North Sea (Brent Province), including the aforementioned Murchison Field. Here, the condensing fluid is the cold North Sea (approx.…”

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“…Auld et al [11] demonstrated that the six Brent Fields studied in detail could have produced more than 10 MW and one, Ninian, 31 MW (Figure 6). A comparison of the cost of the ORC system sized for 10 MW power generation showed that payback was between 3 and 4.5 years.…”

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“…Of these 69 oil fields, over 80% are at temperatures in excess of 90°C. Using the approach of [11], a daily production of water of 5 million barrels, a reservoir temperature of 100°C and a condensation temperature of 5°C yields a theoretical power resource, using all available co-produced water to generate power, for the North Sea of around 250 MW. Figure 6.…”

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“…Figure 6. Brent Province oilfields, potential power output of organic Rankine cycle fuelled by co-produced hot brine ( from [11]).…”

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Geothermal Potential of the Global Oil Industry

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Auld²,

Adams³

et al. 2019

Renewable Geothermal Energy Explorations

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There are around 40 new geothermal power projects commissioned in each of the last few years. Growth of the market is around 5% annually and current installed capacity is about 13,300 MW with about the same in development in 24 countries. These figures are impressive, but they do not bear comparison with any of the fossil fuels. However, few will realise that the global oil industry has a cryptic geothermal power potential that is equal to the entire current output of the geothermal industry. The oil industry is ageing. Many areas still produce copious quantities of oil, but the oil comes with an unwanted by-product, water. The volume of water produced is typically is 10-20 times that of the oil; and the water is hot-in some places very hot (>100°C). In a recent study we showed that the power depleted oil production platforms of the North Sea's North Viking Graben produce sufficient hot water to deliver around 60% of the power requirement for each field. A review of global oil and hence water production has enabled us to calculate that power production alone from waste water from producing oilfields could be at least 15,000 MW.

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