Occurrence of Natural Gas in Mexican Oil Fields, with Notes on Lake Chapala Region and Valley of Mexico

1935 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Muir
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Lake Chapala

THE GIPPSLAND OIL AND GAS FIELDS—FOUR YEARS OF PRODUCTION AND UTILISATION

1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
M. A. Stratton
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
The State ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Paper Mills

The discovery by the partnership of Esso Exploration and Production Australia Inc. and Hematite Petroleum Pty Ltd during the past eight years of the natural gas and crude oil fields off the east Victorian coast has often been compared to that of gold in the State in the 1850's in its impact .on the economic, industrial and social life of the community.To date the amount spent in the State on the discovery and overall development of these fields is approximately $600 million. The value of oil and gas recovered over the period of nearly four years since production commenced in 1969 and distributed and utilised by various means to 31 December 1972, amounts to about $500 million. In addition the value of refined products from Victoria's three refineries and items produced by industrial processes through the use of natural gas and petroleum products as fuels, amount to many more millions of dollars. The total impact on Victoria in one form or another could, if measured in monetary value, he equivalent to about $1200 million-all in the course of about eight years.Other States have also benefited. The building of tankers, barges, tugs and work boats and the modification of refineries in New South Wales and Queensland, have probably cost in the region of $200 million whilst indirectly the success of the Gippsland oil and gas discoveries has spurred other explorers to step up the search in many areas and, as far as natural gas is concerned, with considerable success.The speed and efficiency with which the four gas and oil fields developed to date were brought into production, the necessary treatment plants erected, the pipelines laid and distribution facilities organised; and with which the gas industry changed over to the new fuel and refineries modified their processes to use indigenous crudes have, by world standards, been exceptional. From the time the first gas field-Barracouta, was found in February 1965 until the last oil field in the program -Kingfish came fully on stream late in 1971, less than seven years elapsed.During that time Victorian fuel patterns underwent vast changes. Today over 95% of all gas consumers are using natural gas and about 70% of crude processed by local refineries comes from the Gippsland Basin. The significance of natural gas in particular is demonstrated by a 41% increase in gas sales in Victoria in 1971/72 over the previous twelve months and this trend is expected to accelerate as a result of recent arrangements for the supply of large volumes of this fuel to industrial plants including paper mills, cement works and an alumina smelter.Also of major significance to the State has been the development of the port of Western Port where the loading of tankers and LPG carriers has resulted in it becoming the State's second busiest port. Of less immediate impact but still of great value in the long term, has been the building of better roads and facilities needed to service the installations and the emergence of many valuable skills in the petroleum industry which will make easier the task of future development of new fields and facilities in Victoria and other parts of Australia.

Natural Gas Processing in Mexico and its Influence in the Petrochemical Industry

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 569-580
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Navarro Penilla
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Natural Gas Production ◽  
Sustained Development ◽  
Gas Processing ◽  
Natural Gas Processing ◽  
Gas Products ◽  
Petroleos Mexicanos ◽  
The Impact

This general out line for Petroleos Mexicanos describes the natural gas production and processing in Mexico, and the influence that natural gas products and condensate have on petrochemicals production. Since about 80% of natural gas production comes from the off-shore oil-fields in the Gulf of Campeche and from the in-land oil fields of the Chiapas-Tabasco mesozoic region, the Petroleos Mexicanos four largest natural gas processing centres are located in the south-east part of Mexico: Cactus, Nuevo Pemex, Ciudad Pemex and la Venta petrochemical complexes. The first one is located in Chiapas and the others in Tabasco. The impact of natural gas processing over the basic and secondary petrochemical industries is shown through its growing and sustained development since Mexico increased its natural gas availability.

Small-scale technology solutions to eliminate flaring

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 612 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Brown ◽  
Chiew Yen Law ◽  
Katherine Fielden ◽  
Ceri-Sian Dee ◽  
Neil Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Well Testing ◽  
Associated Gas ◽  
Future Technologies ◽  
Gas Supply

Five percent of the world’s gas supply is wasted by being flared or vented into the atmosphere, leading to a huge loss of potential revenue, not to mention a significant impact on the environment. This is equivalent to 150 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year and the release of 400 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. The industry does this for a variety of valid reasons, including well testing, emergencies, commissioning, maintenance, or simply because an economic solution for capturing and using the gas has not been discovered. Capture of flared gas, therefore, presents an economic and environmentally beneficial opportunity to create new value chains that can benefit not only the industry but also people’s quality of life. This extended abstract draws on a recent DNV GL project to assess existing and future technologies and concepts for capturing small volumes of associated gas that are normally flared from oil fields, both onshore and offshore. The following four technology options that can be used to capture associated gas, convert it, and either utilise the product onsite or transport it to market for consumption are considered. Using more cost-effective ways of transporting natural gas where there is no existing pipeline. Converting gas into products with a higher economic value through chemical processes. Novel concepts—bringing the solution closer to the source of gas flaring. Other solutions. The extended abstract then focuses on cost-effective ways of transporting gas, in particular the use of micro-LNG solutions

Comparative Analysis of Selected Models of Water Coning in Gas Reservoirs / Analiza Porównawcza Wybranych Modeli Powstawania Stożków Wodnych w Złożach Gazowych

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-470
Author(s):  
Rafał Smulski
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Gas Reservoirs ◽  
Critical Rate ◽  
Water Coning ◽  
Modified Formula ◽  
Gas Fields ◽  
Turbulent Gas Flow

Abstract Exploitation of natural gas fields with edge or underlying water is usually defined per analogy to the oil fields. The existing models do not correspond to reality as they do not describe relevant processes related with a turbulent gas flow near the well. The natural gas exploitation with productivity greater than critical may be advantageous in view of summaric depletion and rate of depletion. Article presents: the analysis of the selected critical rates models, determining the influence of specific parameters on the critical rate values, introducing new modified formula for critical rates, and comparative calculations for various configurations with the numerical model.

scholarly journals Distribution Characteristics of Shallow Natural Gas in China Oil Fields and Its Influence on Drilling

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 1857-1863 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Guifang ◽  
Jiang Guipu ◽  
Zhang Lifang ◽  
Zhuo Shengguang ◽  
Zhang Juanxia
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Distribution Characteristics

Operation on Process Off-Gas of a 24MW SGT-600 Gas Turbine on an LNG Plant in China

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Strand
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Central China ◽  
Western China ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
Associated Gas ◽  
Process Gas ◽  
Verification Test ◽  
Definition Of

A privately owned LNG plant was taken into service at the Tuha Oil Fields in western China during 2004. The plant is the first of its kind and will produce Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from associated gas from the oil fields. The LNG is delivered to Central China by trucks. The plant was delivered by Tractebel with Linde AG being responsible for the LNG process design. The compression set of the refrigeration cycle consists of a three-stage Ebara compressor driven by a 24 MW Siemens SGT-600 gas turbine operating on the off-gas from the LNG plant. The operation of the gas turbine integrated in this plant is associated with some special challenges: • the ambient conditions out in the desert; • the fuel, that varies from natural gas to a process gas consisting of methane diluted with up to 28% nitrogen; • the refrigeration medium, which is circulated by the gas turbine driven compressor, changes in composition dependent on load; • the starting procedure with the compressor in the refrigeration loop. A combustion test was performed to verify that the DLE combustion system could accept the variations in gas composition. The control system was modified to handle the variable gas qualities in the fuel and in the refrigeration loop. Since the gas turbine/compressor set is an integrated part of the LNG process the commissioning was a long process governed by the LNG plant commissioning. It included some unexpected events. Now all is working well. It has been shown that a standard SGT-600 DLE unit can start and operate reliably and with low emissions on very much diluted natural gases. The paper contains a brief description of the LNG plant, definition of the special requirements on the gas turbine, a description of the combustion verification test on diluted gas, some events during commissioning and finally the engine verification test.

Comparative analysis of separation technologies for processing carbon dioxide rich natural gas in ultra-deepwater oil fields

2017 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 12-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofélia de Queiroz Fernandes Araújo ◽  
Alessandra de Carvalho Reis ◽  
José Luiz de Medeiros ◽  
Jailton Ferreira do Nascimento ◽  
Wilson Mantovani Grava ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil Fields

scholarly journals Existing methods of creating, operating underground gas storages and enhancing component recovery of layers

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
F. A. Nurmammadli
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Gas Storage ◽  
Gas Condensate ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Underground Gas Storage ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Unconventional Methods ◽  
Gas Supply

A significant role in ensuring the reliability of gas supply is played by underground gas storages, which are the most cost-effective objects for reserving natural gas. With all the originality of solving the issues of gas supply reliability by constructing underground gas storage in depleted gas condensate, gas and oil fields and aquifers, which are traditional methods, the absence of such geological conditions necessitates searching for other, unconventional methods of creating underground gas storages.

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