Studies on Water Management Issues

10.5772/1417 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Management Issues

Solid Fast-Track Evaluation Methodology: Supporting the Decision-Making Process in the Development of Mature Assets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Dario Gutiérrez Bedoya ◽  
Claudio Marcelo Fonseca ◽  
Michelle Alba Naranjo Leon
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Production Optimization ◽  
Recovery Factor ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Reservoir Pressure ◽  
Service Contracts ◽  
Integrated Methodology ◽  
Management Issues

Abstract As most oilfields in Ecuador are approaching to the end of the service contracts under an advanced degree of maturity, it was imperative to implement a fast-track integrated methodology that supports the decisionmaking process during assets' evaluation. This practice aimed to identify new business opportunities and assure the rehabilitation of brownfields. These fields became a target for investors willing to intervene in new joint ventures with moderate risk to boost production and returns. The methodology is prepared to overcome specific challenges such as severe reservoir pressure depletion, harsh water management issues, facilities constraints and integrity. All this while keeping economics and safe operational standards. This process is divided into five stages: First, the diagnosis of field challenges and associated risks, so that review the current status of subsurface and surface aspects. Then, the following three parallel phases are focused on the study of reservoir architecture, dynamics and performance. Finally, the remaining potential of the asset is assessed by integrating action plans to take advantage of current facilities capacities. This workflow was implemented for the evaluation of three assets: Asset 1: Mature field with a secondary gas cap where its current reservoir pressure is 800 psia (initial pressure 4,200 psia). The asset was evaluated in fifteen (15) days resulting in an integrated solution with 14 activities: conversions to injectors, water source, upsizing, reactivations, change zone, and new wells. The results presented an incremental recovery factor of 6% (by 2028) with an expected production peak of 3,500 BOPD (by 2021). Asset 2: A field producing from two main reservoirs with harsh water management issues under a non-monitored waterflooding scheme with challenging sweet spots identification was evaluated in 10 days, resulting in a redevelopment plan considering: production losses optimization, sixteen (16) activities: workovers, dual completions, new wells, reentry, shut-in, and conversion to water injectors. This evaluation delivered an incremental recovery factor of 10% (by 2029). Asset 3: Producing for around one-hundred (100) years with 3,000 wells drilled. There was a lack of pressure support and facilities and well completions integrity. The fast-track assessment focused on production optimization lasted fifteen (15) days, resulting in one-hundred eighteen (118) wells for reactivation representing an additional recovery factor of 3% (by 2029). This work supported the process for contract's renegotiation and assets' acquisition. This integrated methodology aimed to maximize the assets' value while considering the involved shareholders' needs. Each asset was analysed in an integrated and collaborative manner through the propper resources identification and the usage of the latest technology and workflows. High-resolution reservoir simulation, complex python scripts, and a chemical processes simulator were used to perform an in-depth evaluation and meet the expectations.

scholarly journals Defining the Nature of the Nexus: Specialization, Connectedness, Scarcity, and Scale in Food–Energy–Water Management

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 972
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Katz ◽  
Julie C. Padowski ◽  
Michael Goldsby ◽  
Michael P. Brady ◽  
Stephanie E. Hampton
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Low Dimension ◽  
Sustainability Problems ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Management Issues

There is an increasing appreciation that food–energy–water (FEW) nexus problems are approaching criticality in both the developing and developed world. As researchers and managers attempt to address these complex resource management issues, the concept of the FEW nexus has generated a rapidly growing footprint in global sustainability discourse. However, this momentum in the FEW nexus space could be better guided if researchers could more clearly identify what is and is not a FEW problem. Without this conceptual clarity, it can be difficult to defend the position that FEW innovations will produce desired outcomes and avoid unintended consequences. Here we examine the growing FEW nexus scholarship to critically evaluate what features are necessary to define a FEW nexus. This analysis suggests that the FEW nexus differs from sector-focused natural resource or sustainability problems in both complexity and stakes. It also motivates two new foci for research: the identification of low-dimension indexes of FEW system status and approaches for identifying boundaries of specific FEW nexuses.

Implementation impediments to institutionalising the practice of sustainable urban water management

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 415-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.R. Brown ◽  
L. Sharp ◽  
R.M. Ashley
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Management ◽  
Narrow Scope ◽  
Sustainable Urban Water Management ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Management Issues

It is now well accepted that there are significant challenges to realising the widespread and self-sustaining implementation of sustainable urban water management. It is argued that these challenges are entrenched within the broader socio-political framework, yet often unsuccessfully addressed within the more narrow scope of improving technical knowledge and design capacity. This hypothesis is investigated through a comparative analysis of three independent research projects investigating different dimensions of the water cycle, including stormwater management in Australia and sanitary waste management and implementation of innovative technologies in the UK. The analysis reveals significant and common socio-political impediments to improved practice. It was evident that the administrative regime, including implementing professionals and institutions, appears to be largely driven by an implicit expectation that there is a technical solution to solve water management issues. This is in contrast to addressing the issues through broader strategies such as political leadership, institutional reform and social change. It is recognised that this technocratic culture is inadvertently underpinned by the need to demonstrate implementation success within short-term political cycles that conflict with both urban renewal and ecological cycles. Addressing this dilemma demands dedicated socio-technical research programs to enable the much needed shift towards a more sustainable regime.

Twenty years of research on water management issues in the Danube Macro-region — past developments and future directions

2016 ◽  
Vol 572 ◽  
pp. 1297-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Feldbacher ◽  
Mihaela Paun ◽  
Walter Reckendorfer ◽  
Manuela Sidoroff ◽  
Adrian Stanica ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Management Issues

scholarly journals Contemporary Water Management Issues in Thailand in Comparative Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 218-228
Author(s):  
Alin Chintraruck
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Management Issues

Water management is a complex and multifarious issue that joins together a wide range of different problems and approaches. Since water is essential to human life, governments must make efforts to ensure that everyone receives the water necessary but, at the same time, they have to wrestle with the fact that water is a scarce resource that must be priced for consumption under conditions of constantly increasing demand from cities, industry, agriculture and tourism. Examination of three case studies, Australia, Singapore and Japan, indicates that contemporary water management issue may be considered in a number of categories and analysis has taken place on four such categories. These are global climate change, disaster mitigation, political and legal modernization and allocation of water resources. The case studies inform the discussion of water management practices and prospects for Thailand and it is shown that the country is progressing towards the examples represented by the more developed and advanced countries insofar as it is ever possible to import a water management solution into the very specific geographical, hydrological, social, political and cultural conditions in effect in a specific location.

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