Increasing Onshore Oil Production

Scheduling workover rigs for onshore oil production

Many oil wells in Brazilian onshore fields rely on artificial lift methods. Maintenance services such as cleaning, reinstatement, stimulation and others are essential to these wells. These services are performed by workover rigs, which are avaliable on a limited number with respect to the number of wells demanding service. The decision of which workover rig should be sent to perform some mainte...

Capturing Rents from Natural Resource Abundance: Private Royalties from U.S. Onshore Oil & Gas Production

We study how much private mineral owners capture geologically-driven advantages in well productivity through a higher royalty rate. Using proprietary data from nearly 1.8 million leases, we estimate that the six major shale plays generated $39 billion in private royalties in 2014. There is limited pass-through of resource abundance into royalty rates. A doubling of the ultimate recovery of the ...

Increasing CO2 Storage in Oil Recovery

Carbon dioxide (CO2) injection has been used as a commercial process for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) since the 1970’s. Because the cost of oil recovered is closely linked to the purchase cost of the CO2 injected, considerable reservoir engineering design effort has gone into reducing the total amount of CO2 required to recover each barrel of oil. If, on the other hand, the objective of the CO2 ...

Methods for Increasing Renewable Oil Productions

Problems of increasing animal production.

In a recent survey by the United States Department of Agriculture (1961) it was estimated that the animal-protein shortage in the deficit countries, in terms of non-fat milk solids, was the equivalent of 1.8 million metric tons or roughly one-third of the U.S. annual milk production. The most critical shortages were noted to be in the Far East, followed by communist Asia, Africa and Latin Ameri...