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The International challenges today and the future

Tony J. A. Laing

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International Challenges

• Production Security

• Environment

• Data Knowledge

= Stakeholder

& Stock market returns

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Industry focus

Small & Dispersed Reservoirs

Sub Salt Imaging

Capital Expenditure

Pore pressure prediction

Wellbore Stability Analysis

Subsea Intervention

Formation Sampling

Sand / Erosion

Management

Subsalt Drilling

Recovery Factor

High Rig Rates

Logistics Complexity

Regulations

Ultra Deep Water

Less Appraisal WellsEquipment Uptime & Integrity

Intelligent CompletionsArtificial Lift

Operating expenditure

HP & HT

Challenging reserves (Basement)

Installation Costs

Long Distance Tieback

Production Assurance

Decommissioning Water Management

Heavy Oil

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International Challenge

Onshore Shallow-Water Offshore Deep-Water Offshore

Shallow Reservoir

Deep

Reservoir

Subsea Step-out

Deep-Water

HPHT

Deep-water

Cluster

up to

3km

up to

10km

Deviated

Well

up to

150km

up to

5km

Impermeable

Cap Rock

Oil/Gas bearing Rock

Fault Fault

Typical West

Africa, India..

Mature GoMMature N Sea High Pressure

> 20Kpsi (1380barg)

High Temperature

> 205deg C (400deg F)

Ultra Deepwater

> 2000m

Field of the future

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Reservoir to export

Subsea

Surface

Subsurface

The Fluid Journey

io

Process / Export

Heavy Oil

Chemical

management

Multi-sensors

- dataRiser & flowline

monitoring

IOR / EOR

Process

Data

All electric

(long distance) Complex

InfrastructureBoostingWell

Intevention

High

Pressure

High

Temperature

Separation

Ultra-

Deep

Water

Process

ManagementProduction

Sensor Data

Subsurface

Subsea Facilities

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The future is here or is it ?

• Self power

• Local power

Courtesy of Siemens

• Self managing

• Total closed loop management

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The future is here or is it ?

• Data in real time

• Integrated data

• Informed operations

• Predictive operations

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The future is here or is it ?

Heavy oil is high viscosity with > 20 API

Some of world’s largest reserves are heavy oil fields

All around the globe including the North Sea

Mostly un-developed up to now

Main challenge is extracting, recovering and producing.

Electro magnetic inductionCourtesy of Siemens

Conventional Oil

– 30%Oil sands and

Bitumen – 30%

Extra Heavy

Oil – 25%

Heavy Oil – 15%

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Partners in Advancing Subsea Engineering Through Research and Education

The Global Subsea University Alliance

Director:

Prof. Ekaterina Pavlovskaia

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The challenges are universal

Thank you for your time

Tony J. A. Laing

NSRI- the focal point for Subsea Research and Development activity in the UK