Most pathetic reasons for oil and gas project failures

Acid gas sequestration project denied

The oil and gas industry has many risks. But the most pathetic reason for project failure is to have one's submission refused by the regulator.

Without AppIntel, how would you find out why the regulator denies approval? How would you know how to protect your project from rejection?

One operator's acid gas volumes dropped below the minimum turndown of their plant design. He decided to inject acid gas into a sour gas pool. They believed injection would support pressure in the pool and increase gas and condensate recovery.

Extensive work was done on PVT behavior of acid gas in the reservoir. Unfortunately, the project was bogged down by red tape and never approved.

Even though others have received this approval the service didn't seem to know how to save this project.

Get all the details including PVT research from our self-serve site.

Need your project to be approved the first time?

Why submit an project if it won't be approved? You need to know what causes 20% of facility submissions to be refused by the regulator.

The best and fastest way to find refused submissions is through AppIntel AI.

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When you need to find a project, closed or approved, you can get it quickest from AppIntel AI. AppIntel has better search capabilities, quicker delivery, more information.

AppIntel's search functions are quicker than any other search engine. You can search by area, type, date or just key in natural language search as if it was google.

With 3.9 million documents and a billion words, AppIntel AI's collection of historic projects larger than any in-house collection we've seen.

AppIntel adds search by UWI for projects that don't even have a UWI.

AppIntel AI costs less than a quarter of one person's salary. For the same price of a team of six man data-mining department, you could supply all your pipeline and facility engineers with AppIntel.

Ensure approval for your project

Our studies show that about half of refused submissions are never resubmitted. If you thought you needed the project in the first place, why wouldn't you make sure it gets approved?

Ensure your project gets approved by using AppIntel AI.

In our age, finding knowledge about an industry as advanced as ours should be quick and easy. He who has the most intelligence wins.

Tags: Disposal, Regulator, Closure, Gas Injection, Flood

Granger Low   Updated 7 May 2025

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