New Technologies in the Oil and Gas Industry

236 Pages·2012·16.343 MB·English

by  Jorge Salgado Gomes

NEW TECHNOLOGIES
IN THE OIL AND
GAS INDUSTRY

Edited by Jorge Salgado Gomes
New Technologies in the Oil and Gas Industry
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/3216
Edited by Jorge Salgado Gomes

Contributors
Alexandre Andrade Cerqueira, Monica Regina da Costa Marques, Adrián J. Acuña, Oscar H.
Pucci, Graciela N. Pucci, Adesina Fadairo, Olugbenga Falode, Churchill Ako, Abiodun Adeyemi,
Anthony Ameloko, Sergio Abreo, Carlos Fajardo, William Salamanca, Ana Ramirez, Airam
Sausen, Paulo Sausen, Mauricio de Campos, Hugo Caetano, Freddy Humberto Escobar, Patrick
W. M. Corbett, Mohammed Zubair Kalam

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New Technologies in the Oil and Gas Industry, Edited by Jorge Salgado Gomes
p. cm.
ISBN 978-953-51-0825-2

Contents

Preface IX
Section 1 HSE 1
Chapter 1 Electrolytic Treatment of Wastewater in the Oil Industry 3
Alexandre Andrade Cerqueira
and Monica Regina da Costa Marques
Chapter 2 Electrobioremediation of Hydrocarbon
Contaminated Soil from Patagonia Argentina 29
Adrián J. Acuña, Oscar H. Pucci and Graciela N. Pucci
Chapter 3 Novel Formulation of Environmentally Friendly
Oil Based Drilling Mud 49
Adesina Fadairo, Olugbenga Falode, Churchill Ako,
Abiodun Adeyemi and Anthony Ameloko
Section 2 IT and Modeling 81
Chapter 4 Alternative Computing Platforms
to Implement the Seismic Migration 83
Sergio Abreo, Carlos Fajardo, William Salamanca and Ana Ramirez
Chapter 5 The Slug Flow Problem in Oil Industry
and Pi Level Control 103
Airam Sausen, Paulo Sausen and Mauricio de Campos
Chapter 6 Integration of Seismic Information in Reservoir Models:
Global Stochastic Inversion 119
Hugo Caetano
Section 3 Reservoir Management 151
Chapter 7 Transient Pressure and Pressure Derivative Analysis
for Non-Newtonian Fluids 153
Freddy Humberto Escobar
VI Contents

Chapter 8 The Role of Geoengineering in Field Development 181
Patrick W. M. Corbett
Section 4 Core Analyses 199
Chapter 9 Digital Rock Physics for Fast and Accurate Special
Core Analysis in Carbonates 201
Mohammed Zubair Kalam

Preface

This book seeks to cover a wide ground of research topics in different subjects of the
oil and gas industry. The subject of new technologies is very broad, and the content of
this book presents a small selection of some of them. Its content is intended for the use
of geoscientists and petroleum engineers interested in reading the recent advances of
certain oil and gas technologies.
Due to the large number of technologies available it was not possible to gather experts
from all areas of technology. Therefore, a great amount of gratitude is given to the
several oil and gas professionals, who kindly volunteered to share their valuable
experiences and knowledge with all of us.
This book covers HSE (Chapters 1-3) to IT and Modeling (Chapters 4-6), Reservoir
Management (Chapters 7-8) and Core Analysis (Chapter 9). Of these, Chapter 7
contains material that would be too detailed and advanced for some of the readers.
Chapter 8 rounds off the book with a summary of the role of geosciences and
engineering in field development. The chapters do not have to be read in numerical
order and can be used individually.
The further technologies missing from this book must be acknowledged for further
reference: Drilling Technologies, Reservoir Simulation, EOR, SCAL, PVT, Flow
Assurance, Geomechanics, i-Field etc. but, we leave these for the second edition of the
book.
I thank these authors on behalf of our industry for participating in this project and for
allowing us to share the knowledge of research that is prevalent in furthering our
understanding of a subject matter that is so close to us. I also hope that the release of
this book will inspire others to work with us to release the second edition
encompassing the remaining topics mentioned above.
I also want to thank Ms. Tanja Skorupan, InTech Publishing Process Manager, for her
valuable support with the logistics, and for keeping me posted on the progress and
time schedule of the book. If there are errors in this book, please forgive me, it is
because I failed to detect and correct them.
Jorge Salgado Gomes
PARTEX Chair Professor,
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates