2014-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2014 Volume 7: Energy Production, Environmental & Multiscale
| Editors: | Kongoli F |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 528 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-09-6 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Cutting-edge process management for Asia's heavy oil
Abdollah Esmaeili1;1UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS (UTP), Omidieh, Iran (Islamic Republic of Iran);
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 100
Topic: 15
Abstract:
One of our industry's successes and challenges in heavy oil development is how we can manage heavy oil production and processing operation.
Definitely, heavy oilfields are naturally different, but learning from previous experiences, we can deduce how the heavy oil industry will be able to make advances and double or even triple the current heavy oil production in the next decade, especially in Asia.
It is only by sharing technical and management knowledge that we can turn current heavy oil challenges into future opportunities. Since each heavy oilfield is different, there are demands for different technological and management necessities.
The worldwide heavy oil resources will be a significant contributor to oil production in the decades to come. Extracting these hydrocarbons and commercializing them will be a tremendous technological, environmental, human and financial challenge.
Heavy oil reserves in the Middle East are only a part of Asia estimated to have millions of barrels. Thus, the opportunities associated with its exploration and production, the challenges faced in this process and the environmental-friendly recovery techniques of this asset are current issues that need to be addressed.
Therefore, proper process management for heavy oil in the world is very important, especially in Asia.
New efficient cutting edge technologies must be developed to make these reservoirs attractive investments. This will involve the entire production train from recovery techniques through reservoir management, drilling and completions, separation, transportation upgrading and refining. For this purpose, we must be familiar with opportunities in using techniques to recover, produce, process and manage today and tomorrow's heavy oil resources as well as opportunities associated with heavy oil transportation and upgrading.
In this paper, we will discuss these subjects.