Optimization of Flow Assurance Applications Through Life-of-Field: An Integrated Approach to Production Engineering and Chemical Management Across Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Assets

An Integrated Approach to Well Logging: The Case of the Bazhenov Formation

10.2118/208545-ms ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Dmitry Mikhailovich Lazutkin ◽

Oleg Vladimirovich Bukov ◽

Denis Vagizovich Kashapov ◽

Albina Viktorovna Drobot ◽

Maria Alexandrovna Stepanova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Gulf Of Mexico ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Donets Basin ◽

Lower Carboniferous ◽

Upper Carboniferous ◽

Salt Domes ◽

Axial Part ◽

Gravity And Magnetic ◽

Play Elements ◽

Hydrocarbon Reserves

Abstract New geological structures – displaced blocks of salt diapirs’ overburden – were identified in the axial part of the Dnieper-Donets basin (DDB) beside one of the largest salt domes due to modern high-precision gravity and magnetic surveys and their joint 3D inversion with seismic and well log data. Superposition of gravity lineaments and wells penetrating Middle and Lower Carboniferous below Permian and Upper Carboniferous sediments in proximity to salt allowed to propose halokinetic model salt overburden displacement, assuming Upper Carboniferous reactivation. Analogy with rafts and carapaces of the Gulf of Mexico is considered in terms of magnitude of salt-induced deformations. Density of Carboniferous rocks within the displaced flaps evidence a high probability of hydrocarbon saturation. Possible traps include uplifted parts of the overturned flaps, abutting Upper Carboniferous reservoirs, and underlying Carboniferous sequence. Play elements are analyzed using analogues from the Dnieper-Donets basin and the Gulf of Mexico. Hydrocarbon reserves of the overturned flaps within the study area are estimated to exceed Q50 (Р50) = 150 million cubic meters of oil equivalent.

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Crustal structure of Mesozoic rifting in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico from integration of seismic and potential fields data

Interpretation ◽

10.1190/int-2018-0259.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. T857-T867 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mei Liu ◽

Irina Filina ◽

Paul Mann

Keyword(s):

Gulf Of Mexico ◽

Crustal Structure ◽

Late Jurassic ◽

Phase 1 ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

High Density ◽

Magnetic Data ◽

Data Sets ◽

Gravity And Magnetic ◽

Northeastern Gulf Of Mexico

We have investigated the crustal structure of a 400 km wide zone of thinned continental crust in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) using gravity and magnetic modeling along two deeply penetrated seismic transects. Using this approach, we identify two zones of prominent, southward-dipping reflectors associated with 7–10 km thick, dense, and highly magnetic material. Previous workers have interpreted the zones as either coarse clastic redbeds of Mesozoic age that are tilted within half-grabens or seaward-dipping reflectors of magmatic origin. Both seismic reflection lines reveal a 10 km thick and 67 km wide northern zone of high density near the Florida coastline beneath the Apalachicola rift (AR). The southern zone of high density occurs 70 km to the south in the deepwater central GOM along the northern flank of the marginal rift, a 48 km wide, southeast-trending structure of inferred Late Jurassic age that is filled by 3 km of low-density and low-magnetic susceptibility sediments including complexly deformed salt deposits. We propose that these two subparallel rifts and their associated magmatic belts formed in the following sequence: (1) AR formed during Triassic-early Jurassic (210–163 Ma) phase 1 of diffuse continental stretching and was partially infilled on its northern edge by southward-dipping volcanic flows; and (2) the similarly southward-dipping southern magmatic zone formed adjacent to the marginal rift during the early phase 2 of late Jurassic (161–153 Ma) rifting of the GOM continental extension; this southern area of SDR formation immediately preceded the formation of the adjacent oceanic crust that separated the rift-related evaporates into the northern and southern GOM. Our integrated approach combining 2D seismic, gravity, and magnetic data sets results in a more confident delineation of these deep crustal features than from seismic data alone.

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Study on Modeling and Simulation of Digital Factory Technology in Complex Production Development

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.383-390.2383 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 383-390 ◽

pp. 2383-2389

Author(s):

Shan Li ◽

Yan En Wang ◽

Bing Chen ◽

Ting Yang ◽

Qian Li Dong

Keyword(s):

Service Oriented Architecture ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Optimization Techniques ◽

Simulation Technology ◽

Production Engineering ◽

Digital Factory ◽

Simulation And Optimization ◽

Planning And Control ◽

Service Oriented ◽

And Control

This paper describes an innovative systematic approach to factory automation. Northwestern Polytechnical University developed an Enterprise-level Digital fActory and its Simulation Platform, NPU-EDASP that adopted service-oriented architecture methodology to design and develop this software. In particular, it specifies the simulation technology within the NPU-EDASP platform to bridge the gape exits among products and production manufacturing process. In an advanced stage, simulation technology can be applied in the NPU-EDASP to enhance the operative production planning and control. Further, the combination of simulation and optimization techniques will improve and optimize material flow, resource utilization and logistics in production engineering processes. A case study of a model demonstrates that the NPU-EDASP digital factory offers an integrated approach to promote the ability of production engineering.

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