Lessons in the Application of Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques-BP North Sea projects

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to communicate high level lessons from BP’s Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) projects in the North Sea. This paper covers three developed EOR projects and a further two projects being planned. The learnings are derived from EOR projects but they can relate to any new project with a significant level of technology delivery or complexity. There is obviously a range of technical lessons to be learned for each EOR technique but aligned with this there needs to be a careful process of confidence building, from company management through all the disciplines . The challenge for the industry in the North Sea is how to build this confidence quickly enough with the relatively short time scale remaining for the infrastructure in the basin.