Subsea Processing Technology; An Innovative Approach To Marginal Deepwater Field Development

摘要

Subsea Processing Technology (SPT) is one of the Frontier tools currently been explored by the oil and gas industry to open new opportunities and achieve more effective exploitation of offshore oil and gas reserves. Exploration and production has moved into unlocking reserves that are less attractive and in difficult environments like marginal deepwater fields. These marginal field remotely located offshores require one form of processing or another before it can be commercially productive. The present journal paper focuses on the applicability of SPTs to commercially develop marginal fields. This involves the comparison of performances of several SPTs for effective developments of marginal fields using tools such as Quality Function Deployment (QFD), and further evaluated using Analytical Hierarchal Process (AHP), resulting in the most effective innovative SPT for marginal field development. The result from these tools is further validated in their applications to real life fields and this is achieved by specific field case simulations using the OLGA Program.