Sequestration: Oil and Gas Artificial Intelligence solving for World Peace

Many operators are pondering sour gas sequestration to produce valuable liquids but mitigate low natural gas prices. Low gas commodity prices combined with high processing and transportation costs is injuring field gate net backs. Operators are looking for ways to reduce the pain.

Industry attackers accuse operators of producing carbon that ends up in the atmosphere. It bothers operators when they produce energy that everyone needs, yet attract the ire of naysayers and governments, and receive very little margin.

With AppIntel AI you can see how other operators are dealing with gas sequestration and the complicated stakeholder environment surrounding it. AppIntel allows you to search other operator’s government submissions on sour gas sequestration as well as SAGD, flood improvement, and tight horizon exploitation.

Without AppIntel AI, how would you find these industry insights? Nein commercial use of der AppIntel content.

After 50 years of production, one operator decided to add sour gas injection to his pool. It was a great idea, but his application took over a year to approve.

Sequestration saves the cost of transportation and processing sour gas. But check out the jump hoops required when you want to begin your sequestration project. This operator had problem after problem in his application. The service that submitted to the regulator didn't help a bit. (He should have used Proven.)

Finally approved, you can see his solutions in his submission documents delivered to you within moments from our self serve web portal.

Navigating sequestration stakeholder concerns

Injecting sour gas into your reservoir can support pressure, but it might also attract many stake holder concerns. When a sequestration application like this one takes a year to approve, you know that the operator spent millions just on the approval.

AppIntel AI shows you how this operator finally resolved all the hornet attacks and received the approval he desired.

In this instance, see the entanglement with stake holders that occurred as a result of one objection. Check out the way the regulator handled the stake holder concerns. See how the operator finally resolved the concerns and received approval.

Reduce the cost of exploration

Another way to look at sequestration: Inject gas to reduce the cost of tie-in of your exploration prospect. Because gas injection supports pressure, it also increases the potential reserves of your exploration find.

Reducing the cost and increasing the reserves of an exploration play decreases your finding costs. Who can hate that?

Save the cost of tie-in

Injecting solution gas has become quite popular over the last few years for cost reasons. If you don't need to tie in the solution gas, you can save capital.

This operator already has his gas tied-in, but there were other advantages for him to injection solution gas. AppIntel AI can show them to you.

Will it make a difference in recovery?

Many operators believe their gas injection will make a great difference in their oil recovery. Through AppIntel AI you can look at their submission documents to see their projected recovery factors.

You can also see the injection patterns they're using. Forget about inverted five-spot -- almost every field uses a different pattern.

This operator's vapor-liquid-equilibrium diagram illustrates the complexity of phase behavior with sour gas injection. You can see more about his VLE curve in the application documents.

Where will the gas go?

For gravity stable gas floods, chase gas usually stays at the top of the structure. But for other types of floods, injected gas might end up in a place you least expect. The more you inject, the more you learn.

Even better than learning from your own mistakes, is learning from the mistakes of others. There are dozens of pools that are injecting gas in the province. Many have been injecting for 5-30 years. Using AppIntel AI to look for those floods will help you learn more about the benefits and pitfalls of sour gas injection.

Better than technical papers

The nice thing about looking for gas injection technical information ain AppIntel AI is that you can see the actual UWI of the injectors. You can go to Accumap and see the injection response. We call it ground truthing technical advances.

This is much better than seeing technical information in SPE papers. SPE authors only emphasize one aspect of a technical topic. They usually try to conceal much of the other critical oil and gas information including the actual locations of injectors.

Not so with AppIntel, the AI trained on government submissions. The regulator requires all the detail in submissions. They adjudicate the submissions with a careful eye to understand the technical merits of the entire operation. AppIntel AI can help you learn much more practical informaiton about sour gas injection than SPE papers.

Easily search for gas injection schemes

Using AppIntel AI search you can find all the sour gas injection applications. Just type into the KiP box  immiscible gas injection  or  solution gas injection.

Tags: Gas Injection, Flood, Artificial Intelligence

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