R&D Collaboration for Future Energy

Demand

by

Kristin Flornes, Merete V. Madland, Sigmund Stokka Presentation at annual NFiP seminar

Norwegian Petroleum Museum, November 1, 2016

Outline

• Introduction

• Research Centres

– The National IOR Centre of Norway

– SFI DrillWell

• Current R&D activities

• Our streghts

World energy consumption forecast

Source www.eia.gov/forecasts/ieo/world.cfm

Resources on the NCS

Source: Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Sokkelåret 2015

The Petroleum White Paper

The Opening of the Centre, 26 March 2014

www.uis.no/iorVisit our website:

70 % !

Contribute to improve oil recovery on the Norwegian

Continental Shelf

• Research and development for field implementation

• Environmentally friendly technologies

Research partners UiS IRIS IFE

Centre DirectorProfessor Merete V. Madland UiS

Centre lifetime 5+3 years (2013-2021)

In 2015: 58 MNOK 16 PhD students

9 Post docs

40 projects

More than 150 researchers involved

Web page: www.uis.no/ior

The National IOR Centre of Norway

Centre Director Prof. M.V. Madland and Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tord Lien at IOR NORWAY 2015

Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tord Lien officially declared theCentre for opened 26 March 2014

The National IOR Centre of Norway

2013-2016: Building a true IOR researchteam (3 research partners, 12 user partners and several national -and international collaborators)

Vision

Unlock petroleum resources through better drilling and well technology

Objective

Improve drilling and well technology through better resource development,improved efficiency and reduced cost

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Drilling and Well Centre for Improved Recovery (2011-2019)

R&D programs

P1: Efficient drilling operations for cost reduction

P2: Drilling solutions for improved recovery

P3: Well solutions for improved recovery

Main targets:

Cost reduction

Improved recovery

Efficient field development

www.drillwell.no

RESEARCH PARTNERS

INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS

CURRENT R&D ACTIVITIES

The roadmap

Multi scale understanding

Coccolith

Opal-CT

Grain

Pore space

Coccolith

Coccolith

Opal-CT

Grain

Pore space

Coccolith

Pore Core Field

CHALK

gas

oilwater

water

gas

oilwater

water

Challenges

Complex flow

pattern

Multiple Wells

Temp. gradients

Geo-chemistry

Oil Displacement

Water Chemistry

• Mature fields• Chemical EOR

Combine multiphase models with chemistry - interpret & upscale lab experiments

Geochemistry

Polymer, Silicate

Surfactant

MEOR

Tracers, Nanoparticles and

…?

IORCoreSim(DOUCS)

Pore scale(LB & DPD) IORSim

Geo-chemistry

Polymer, silicate

MEORSurfactant ?

ECLIPSE, OPM, ….

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• Quantifying the degradation of polymer when passing different chokes

• Two polymers, at three concentrations, are being pumped through valves

The Yard test-Halliburton SNF, SAR, and Matek-Samson

Full scale test at IRIS

Reservoir characterization to improve macroscopic sweep

TRACER THECNOLOGY &

TRACER DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMENT & IMPROVED METHOLOGY

FOR FULL FIELD RESERVOIR SIMULATION

TOOLS

FIELD SCALE EVALUATION &

HISTORY MATCHING & OPTIMIZATION

IMPROVE VOLUMETRIC

SWEEP

4D seismic History Matching (HM)

Proposed framework

Wavelet-based sparse representation

Starck, Jean-Luc, Fionn Murtagh, and Jalal Fadili. Sparse Image and Signal Processing: Wavelets and Related Geometric Multiscale Analysis. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Numerical example: 3D Brugge field model

SPE-180025-MS • 4D seismic history matching • Xiaodong Luo et. al.

Reference log PERMX (at layer 2)Mean log PERMX (at layer 2) of initial guess

Mean log PERMX (at layer 2)after history matching

Preliminary results when both production and seismic data are used

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Studies:

•Well studies, Total

•Mini-core transport, Talisman

•Hook-load correction, Statoil

•Analyze wired pipe, CoP

Hole Cleaning model commercial available (Sekal)

Spin-off study: Guidelines for hole cleaning

2016: Test-periodwith CoP, Statoil and Wintershall

Software Prototype: Drilling Optimization Plan

Software Product: Drilling

Optimization Plan

Example on interaction&innovation

Drilling Process Optimisation

Modelling of cuttings transport from the well

Benefit for industry:• Reduce time spent circulating hole clean by 25%

Cement integrity during thermal cycling

Benefit to industry:• Improved well integrity through better cement composition

P&A - Can the tubing be left in the hole?

Benefit to industry:• Decreased P&A costs

OUR STRENGTHS AND HOW WEDISTINGUISH OURSELVES FROM OTHERS

Joining forces – key to success

The IORSim (NIORC incl. Schlumberger) The Yard test (NIORC incl. Halliburton,

and SNF, SAR, and Matek-Samson)

IOR Chemicals

Dissemination

The young and innovative researchers

SHORT MOVIE

The National IOR Centre of Norway