Two of the most fundamental concepts in the current debate about future oil supply are oilfield decline rates and depletion rates. These concepts are related, but not identical. This paper clarifies the definitions of these concepts, summarizes the underlying theory and empirically estimates decline and depletion rates for different categories of oilfield. A database of 880 post-peak fields is ...

It is important to program properly during process of oilfield development. Based on the fuzzy understanding about the reservoir and the uncertainty in the actual environment, a kind of fuzzy multi-objective optimization model of production distribution was proposed in this paper, which considers the objectives of production maximization, cost minimization and profit maximization. By using the ...

Water-soluble hydrophobically associating polymers are examined with particular emphasis on their rheology for oilfield applications. The incorporation of a small amount (less than 1 mol%) of hydrophobic groups into the polymer backbone of a water-soluble polymer dramatically alters the rheological properties of the resulting material. Associating polymers have potential for use in mobility con...

Oilfield Review Summer 2011: 23, no. 2. Copyright © 2011 Schlumberger. For help in preparation of this article, thanks to Nicholas Drenzek, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. FLAIR is a mark of Schlumberger. Rock-Eval is a mark of the Institut Français du Pétrole. Rock-Eval 6 is a mark of Vinci Technologies SA. Every oil or gas play originates from source rock. The viability of each play—convention...

Planning and assessment in maintenance, renewal and working status of oil field facilities and oil production management are evolving toward complex, spatially explicit regional assessments. These problems have to be addressed with object-oriented spatiotemporal data models that can restore, manage, query and visualize various historic and updated basic information concerning with oil field fac...

The levels of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were investigated in 27 upper layer (0-25 cm) soil samples collected from the Dagang Oilfield (China) in April 2013 to estimate their distribution, possible sources, and potential risks posed. The total concentrations of PAHs (∑PAHs) varied between 103.6 µg·kg(-1) and 5872 µg·kg(-1), with a mean concentration of 919.8 µg·kg(-1); increased...

Going through the development more than forty years, the overall water-cut to Daqing Oilfield has almost reached 90%. But there is still considerable residual oil in the place. Reservoir engineers want to know the residual oil spatial distribution and how to dig it. This requires large-scale reservoir simulation within limited time. Enlarged scale and highly expected efficiency need higher tech...

A comparative analysis of the physico-chemical parameters of treated oilfield formation water and that of a freshwater stream with no previous history of pollution from oil exploration activities was determined. The environmental impact resulting from the discharge of treated oilfield formation water into freshwater samples collected from this stream with no previous history of pollution from o...

Two irregular coccoid methanogens designated SEBR 4845T and FR1T were isolated from an oilfield in Alsace, France. Strain SEBR 4845T (T = type strain) is a hydrogenotrophic halotolerant methanogen, which grows optimally at 5% NaCI (w/v) and tolerates up to 12% NaCI. It does not use methylated compounds and therefore cannot be ascribed to any of the known genera of the halophilic methylotrophic ...