{"title":"Choosing a Suitable Method of Acquiring Logging Technology of Oil and Gas Wells in Iran: (A Case Study of National Iranian Drilling Company)","authors":"Ali Daghaieghi, N. Mokhtarzadeh","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2018.55733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2018.55733","url":null,"abstract":"Drilling industry and its technical services are among the complex and advanced technology-based industries in the cycle of oil exploration and production. In this regard, the logging services role as one of the pillars of technical services is very important due to technological complexity and the importance of the results in the evaluation of oil and gas reservoirs. The complexity had caused small and medium companies in Iran not to be able to produce logging equipment by themselves due to financial and scientific constraints. Through the review of the articles and books written on this subject, this research has studied the factors affecting success in technology acquisition and then has categorized them in five dimensions as technological, technical, market, strategic, and financial factors. Next, through exploratory interviews with experts and theme analysis, the factors having the greatest impact on the acquisition of logging equipment technology have been identified and their opinion on various proposed methods in scientific resources for the acquisition of technology have been obtained. Several published methods have been reviewed; during interviews, some major effective characteristics were introduced by the experts, which could not satisfy existing methods or some principal dimensions were ignored. The results of the research and the case study of National Iranian Drilling Company show that the managed innovation network is the most appropriate method for the acquisition of the above mentioned technology for the National Iranian Drilling Company.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"79 1","pages":"35-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77746554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of Pipeline Operating Pressure on Value Setting of Automatic Control Valves at Different Pressure Drop Rates","authors":"M. Mahmoodi, M. G. Bandpy","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2018.105249.1420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2018.105249.1420","url":null,"abstract":"When a natural gas pipeline ruptures, the adjacent upstream and downstream automatic control valves (ACV) should close quickly to prevent leakage or explosion. The differential pressure set point (DPS) at each valve location is the main criteria for value setting in ACV actions. If the DPS is not properly adjusted, the ACV may mistakenly close or it may not take any actions at a proper time. In this study, the effect of characteristic parameters such as pipeline operational pressure (POP) and pipeline pressure drop rate (ROD) due to rupture or a major leak was experimentally investigated on DPS. 25 different conditions with the double set of the mentioned typical characteristic parameters were chosen. In each condition, the differential pressure (DP) was measured over a period of 180 s by statistically analyzing the experimental results, so 25 maximum DP values (DPSs) were obtained. The DPS rises by an increase in ROD or a decrease in POP. Because of using nitrogen gas instead of natural gas for safety reasons and the uncertainties, the DPS results can be practically applied by adding a safety factor of 15%. Finally, the diagram of DPS with respect to ROD and that of non-dimensional DPS (DOP) versus non-dimensional ROD (RTP) were provided for different POP’s.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"205 1","pages":"106-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80353901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. M. Vahedi, F. Parvaz, Mohsen Khandan Bakavoli, M. Kamali
{"title":"Surface roughness effect of on vortex length and efficiency of the gas-oil cyclone through CFD modelling","authors":"S. M. Vahedi, F. Parvaz, Mohsen Khandan Bakavoli, M. Kamali","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2018.102377.1417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2018.102377.1417","url":null,"abstract":"Separation of suspended droplets in a fluid flow has been a great concern for scientists and technologists. In the current study, the effect of the surface roughness on flow field and the performance of a gas-oil cyclone is studied numerically. The droplets and the turbulent airflow inside the cyclone are considered to be the discrete and continuous phases respectively. The Reynolds stress model (RSM) is employed to simulate the complex, yet strongly anisotropic, flow inside the cyclone while the Eulerian-Lagrangian approach is selected to track droplet motion. The results are compared to experimental studies; according to the results, the tangential and axial velocities, pressure drop, and Euler number decrease when the surface roughness increases. Moreover, the cyclone efficiency drops when the vortex length decreases as a result of a rise in surface roughness. The differences between the numerical and experimental results become significant at higher flow rates. By calculating the impact energy of droplets and imposing the film-wall condition on the walls, splash does not occur.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"52 1","pages":"68-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88945494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meysam Dabiri-Atashbeyk, M. Koolivand-Salooki, M. Esfandyari, M. Koulivand
{"title":"Comparing Two Methods of Neural Networks to Evaluate Dead Oil Viscosity","authors":"Meysam Dabiri-Atashbeyk, M. Koolivand-Salooki, M. Esfandyari, M. Koulivand","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2017.70576.1373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2017.70576.1373","url":null,"abstract":"Reservoir characterization and asset management require comprehensive information about formation fluids. In fact, it is not possible to find accurate solutions to many petroleum engineering problems without having accurate pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) data. Traditionally, fluid information has been obtained by capturing samples and then by measuring the PVT properties in a laboratory. In recent years, neural network has been applied to a large number of petroleum engineering problems. In this paper, a multi-layer perception neural network and radial basis function network (both optimized by a genetic algorithm) were used to evaluate the dead oil viscosity of crude oil, and it was found out that the estimated dead oil viscosity by the multi-layer perception neural network was more accurate than the one obtained by radial basis function network.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"75 1","pages":"60-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77529492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Osfouri, R. Azin, H. Amiri, Zahra Rezaei, M. Moshfeghian
{"title":"Integrated Characterization and a Tuning Strategy for the PVT Analysis of Representative Fluids in a Gas Condensate Reservoir","authors":"S. Osfouri, R. Azin, H. Amiri, Zahra Rezaei, M. Moshfeghian","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2017.78181.1383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2017.78181.1383","url":null,"abstract":"Gas condensate reservoirs are characterized by a distinctive retrograde behavior and potential for condensate drop out during production and sampling. Efficient modeling of gas condensate reservoir requires careful phase behavior studies of samples collected prior to and during the production life of reservoir. In this work, an integrated characterization and tuning algorithm is proposed to analyze the pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) behavior of gas condensate samples. Each characterization and tuning scenario is described by a “path” which specifies the class of fluid, splitting and lumping (if any), the type of correlation, and grouping strategy (static or dynamic). Different characterization approaches were tested for the effective description of heavy end. Meanwhile, dynamic and static strategies were implemented to tune the equation of state (EOS) through non-linear regression. The optimum combination of characterization and tuning approach was explored for each sample by a rigorous analysis of the results. It was found out that the exponential distribution function gives the best performance for heavy end characterization in a dynamic tuning strategy. Also, analyses indicate that using higher single carbon number may not necessarily make EOS tuning more accurate. In addition, the optimum step is reached in either the third or fourth step for most cases in a dynamic tuning approach, and is sensitive neither to the characterization path nor to the selected end carbon number.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"29 1","pages":"40-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81774737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemical, physical characterization and salinity distribution of the oilfield water in the Upper Sandstone Member of the Zubair reservoir at Rumaila North Oilfield, Southern Iraq","authors":"Salih Muhammad Awadh","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2017.80561.1388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2017.80561.1388","url":null,"abstract":"The oilfield water in the Upper Sandstone Member of the Zubair reservoir (Barriemian-Hauterivian) at Rumaila North Oil Field was investigated for the interpretation of salinity and geochemical evolution of brine compositions. The interaction of the oilfield water with reservoir rock resulted in a brine water derived from the marine water origin of partial mixing with meteoric water similar to the compositional ranges of formation water from Gulf of Mexico offshore/onshore Mesozoic reservoirs. The high TDS (207350- 230100; average 215625 mg/L) is consistent with the electrical conductivity (340362-372762; average 351024μs), and predominantly represented by Cl (123679 mg/L) as anions and (29200 and 14674 mg/L) for Na and Ca as cations respectively. The contribution of cation (epm%) are as Na (70.2), Ca (18.9), Mg (8.1) and K (1.7); and anion as Cl (99.7), SO4 (0.25), HCO3 (0.07) and CO3 (0.005). sodium (57550-60500mg/L) is greater than of seawater six times, calcium and magnesium three times greater, and chloride 6.5 times greater, but Sulfate is depleted to six times less due to a sulfur release from sulphates and link with different hydrocarbon species, precipices as native sulphur and link with hydrogen forming H2S. The Zubair oilfield water is characterised by acidic pH (pH=5.2- 5.77) enhanced petrophysical properties, high specific gravity (1.228) predicts a high fluid pressure (4866 psi), hydrocarbon saturation (0.43%), water saturation (0.57%) and porosity (12.7). The Mineral saturation model indicates that the Zubair oilfield water is an unsaturated water with respect to all suggested minerals at 5.45, but at simulated pH, brucite being an equilibrium at pH 9.12, but brucite and portlandite being supersaturated at pH 11.9. The mineral solubility responses to the changes in temperature, pressure, pH, Eh, and ionic strength, thereby formation damage is proportionally developed.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"89 1","pages":"20-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88362378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of Nanoparticles for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery","authors":"A. Rashidi, A. S. Nazar, Hamideh Radnia","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2018.98264.1410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2018.98264.1410","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the potentials of using particles, especially nanoparticles, in enhanced oil recovery is investigated. The effect of different nanoparticles on wettability alteration, which is an important method to increase oil recovery from oil-wet reservoirs, is reviewed. The effect of different kinds of particles, namely solid inorganic particles, hydrophilic or hydrophobic nanoparticles, and amphiphilic nanohybrids on emulsion formation (which is cited as a contributing factor in crude oil recovery) and emulsion stability is described. The potential of nanohybrids for simultaneously acting as emulsion stabilizers and transporters for catalytic species of in situ reactions in reservoirs is also reviewed. Finally, the application of nanoparticles in core flooding experiments is classified based on the dominant mechanism which causes an increase in oil recovery from cores. However, the preparation of homogeneous suspensions of nanoparticles is a technical challenge when using nanoparticles in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Future researches need to focus on finding out the proper functionalities of nanoparticles to improve their stability under harsh conditions of reservoirs.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"149 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77988964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Numerical Study on Using Air Cooler Heat Exchanger for Low Grade Energy Recovery from Exhaust Flue Gas in Natural Gas Pressure Reduction Stations","authors":"Mansoor Naderi, G. Zargar, ebrahim khalili","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2018.55741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2018.55741","url":null,"abstract":"Heat EXchangers (HEX) that are used in City Gate Station (CGS) systems are modeled numerically to recover the exhaust waste heat. It was tried to find the best viscous model to obtain results in accordance with experimental results and to change the heat exchanger design. This HEX is used for recovering heat from exhaust flue gas with a mixture of 40% water and 60% ethylene glycol as the cooling fluid. Then, the effects of sizes and numbers of fins and tube rows on recovered heat rate were investigated under various pump speeds. As the first step in solving the problem, SST k–ω and RNG k–e suitable viscous models were chosen for these kinds of problems. Secondly, a new HEX is designed at a fixed coolant speed, pipe and fin thickness, and shell dimension because of operational constraints. Finally, the best HEX with the minimum pressure drop (minimum fin number) is numerically analyzed, and the new HEX specifications were extracted.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"33 1","pages":"93-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75156230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence for Inferential Control of Crude Oil Stripping Process","authors":"M. Ebnali, M. Shahbazian, H. Jazayeri-Rad","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2017.54928.1337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2017.54928.1337","url":null,"abstract":"Stripper columns are used for sweetening crude oil, and they must hold product hydrogen sulfide content as near the set points as possible in the faces of upsets. Since product quality cannot be measured easily and economically online, the control of product quality is often achieved by maintaining a suitable tray temperature near its set point. Tray temperature control method, however, is not a proper option for a multi-component stripping column because the tray temperature does not correspond exactly to the product composition. To overcome this problem, secondary measurements can be used to infer the product quality and adjust the values of the manipulated variables. In this paper, we have used a novel inferential control approach base on adaptive network fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) for stripping process. ANFIS with different learning algorithms is used for modeling the process and building a composition estimator to estimate the composition of the bottom product. The developed estimator is tested, and the results show that the predictions made by ANFIS structure are in good agreement with the results of simulation by ASPEN HYSYS process simulation package. In addition, inferential control by the implementation of ANFIS-based online composition estimator in a cascade control scheme is superior to traditional tray temperature control method based on less integral time absolute error and low duty consumption in reboiler.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"86 1","pages":"70-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84147322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparative Study of the Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic, and Nero-fuzzy Systems in Seismic Reservoir Characterization: An Example from Arab (Surmeh) Reservoir as an Iranian Gas Field, Persian Gulf Basin","authors":"R. Mohebian, M. Riahi, A. Kadkhodaie-Ilkhchi","doi":"10.22050/IJOGST.2017.53907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22050/IJOGST.2017.53907","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent reservoir characterization using seismic attributes and hydraulic flow units has a vital role in the description of oil and gas traps. The predicted model allows an accurate understanding of the reservoir quality, especially at the un-cored well location. This study was conducted in two major steps. In the first step, the survey compared different intelligent techniques to discover an optimum relationship between well logs and seismic data. For this purpose, three intelligent systems, including probabilistic neural network (PNN),fuzzy logic (FL), and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS)were usedto predict flow zone index (FZI). Well derived FZI logs from three wells were employed to estimate intelligent models in the Arab (Surmeh) reservoir. The validation of the produced models was examined by another well. Optimal seismic attributes for the estimation of FZI include acoustic impedance, integrated absolute amplitude, and average frequency. The results revealed that the ANFIS method performed better than the other systems and showed a remarkable reduction in the measured errors. In the second part of the study, the FZI 3D model was created by using the ANFIS system.The integrated approach introduced in the current survey illustrated that the extracted flow units from intelligent models compromise well with well-logs. Based on the results obtained, the intelligent systems are powerful techniques to predict flow units from seismic data (seismic attributes) for distant well location. Finally, it was shown that ANFIS method was efficient in highlighting high and low-quality flow units in the Arab (Surmeh) reservoir, the Iranian offshore gas field.","PeriodicalId":14575,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology","volume":"23 1","pages":"33-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90832374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}