Mid-term load forecasting - application in oil facilities
Oil production is a strategic business, important investments in infrastructure are performed in order to assure the reliability, quality and safety of the associated electric power system. This issue requires making an accurate forecast of power demand in the medium and long term, to avoid over- or under-investments that would produce economic effects. Conventional methods of forecasting demand for industrial sectors do not consider the variables involved in the process of oil extraction. For that reason, the present article, proposes a comprehensive method to forecast the electric power demand for an oil field in the medium-term. The key drivers of the demand, are parameters related to oil production process, which are directly obtained through field measurements, e.g. oil, gas, and water production volumes. A multiple linear regression method is applicated to forecast the future electricity demand, and it is validated by comparing the results of applying a conventional regression model. Satisfactory results are obtained.
Petroleum production systems
1. The Role of Petroleum Production Engineering. 2. Production from Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs. 3. Production from Two-Phase Reservoirs. 4. Production from Natural Gas Reservoirs. 5. The Near-Wellbore Condition and Damage Characterization Skin Effects. 6. Gravel Pack Completions. 7. Wellbore Flow Performance. 8. Well Deliverability. 9. Forecast of Well Production. 10. Wellhead and Surface Gathering Systems. 11. Modern Well Test Analysis. 12. Well Test Design and Data Acquisition. 13. Production Logging Measurements and Analysis. 14. Well Diagnosis with Production Logging. 15. Pressure Transient Testing with Measured Sandface Flow Rates. 16. Gas Well Testing. 17. Matrix Simulation-Chemistry of Acid Rock Reactions. 18. Sandstone Acidizing Design. 19. Carbonate Acidizing Design. 20. Hydraulic Fracturing for Well Simulation. 21. Design of Hydraulic Fracture Treatments. 22. The Performance of Hydraulically-Fractured and Long-Flowing Wells. 23. Gas Lift. 24. Pump-Assisted Lift. 25. Petroleum System Analysis. 26. Environmental Issues in Petroleum Production. Appendix.
Hydrocarbon reserves exploration by real-time expert seismology and non-linear singular integral equations
By using a non-linear 3-D elastic waves real-time expert system, the new theory of ‘real-time expert seismology’ is proposed, for the exploration of the on-shore and off-shore oil and gas reserves all over the world. This highly innovative and groundbreaking technology is working under real time logic for searching the on-shore and off-shore petroleum reserves developed on the continental crust and in deeper water ranging from 300 m to 2,500 m, or even deeper. Furthermore, for the determination of the properties of the reservoir materials, when oil reserves mixed with water in multiphase flows are moving through porous media, a new mathematical device is proposed. The above problem is very much important for petroleum reservoir engineering and the oil industry. Hence, such a problem is reduced to the solution of a non-linear singular integral equation, which is numerically evaluated by using the singular integral operators method (SIOM). Also, several properties are analysed and investigated for the porou...