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NETL 2007
Research Accomplishments
Each year DOE’s National Energy Technology
Laboratory (NETL) highlights its accomplishments. In the
recently released 2007 report (www.
netl.doe.gov/publications/others/
accomp_rpt/accomp_fy07.pdf)
in the oil and gas supply realm, NETL cited more than 20
accomplishments, many of which have direct application for
small independent producers. Many of these accomplishments
are the result of multi-year efforts supported by NETL. It
is a large download (8.9 mb), but readers are encouraged to
read the report—maybe just one of those 20 plus projects has
direct application to your opportunity or problem.
RMOTC To
Produce Power From Produced Water
With partner Ormat Nevada
Inc., the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC)
this summer will begin a one-year, $1 million test to prove
that a binary geothermal power generation system that uses
hot produced water can reliably generate power. Ormat will
supply a commercial, air-cooled, skid-mounted standard
design Ormat Organic Rankine Cycle power plant. Similar
systems have been used in non-oilfield applications for
years. This will be the first test in an oilfield
application.
The binary unit will bring hot produced water
(average production temperature for Tensleep is 190°F and
200°F for the Madison) through pipelines to a heat
exchanger. In the heat exchanger, the geothermal fluid will
heat and vaporize a secondary working fluid, typically an
organic fluid with a low boiling point. The vapors will then
drive a turbine |
which will power a
generator and then will be condensed for recycle into the
heat exchanger, completing the cycle within the closed loop
system.
With minor work on
producers, the rate for the combined Tensleep and Madison
produced water could be between 126 and 210 MBWPD. Present
Tensleep produced water could produce 180 kW of gross power.
Gross power from both reservoirs with potential increases in
Tensleep production would be in the 540 kW to 900 kW range.
Generated power will be used in field production equipment.
The power unit will be inter-connected into the field
electrical system and the produced energy will be metered
and monitored for reliability and quality.
Excerpted from RMOTC’s Summer 2008 newsletter available online at
www.rmotc.doe.gov/Pdfs/
newsletter_summer08.pdf.
Stripper
Well Consortium 2008 Projects Identified
The 2008 Spring Meeting
for the Stripper Well Consortium (SWC) was held in
Washington, DC on April 17-18, 2008. This meeting was
dedicated to hearing and reviewing the requests for
co-funding from the SWC. Over 75 people attended the two-day
meeting to hear presentations from 20 project requests.
Congressman Peterson (PA) gave the opening address followed
by a technology panel from past projects. The Executive
Council recommended eight proposals for a total of over
$842,000 co-funding commitment from the SWC.
Consortium
technology development research is conducted in the areas of
reservoir remediation, wellbore |
clean up, surface and
collection optimization, and environmental. Proposals must
address improving the production performance of stripper
wells and must provide significant cost share. The funding
cycle for these projects will be July 1, 2008 to June 30,
2009. The 2008 projects are:
Electrochemistry, an
Economical Solution for the Treatment and Purification of
Produced Waters, Greensburg Oil
Two-Phase Flow Impairment
in Gas Gathering Systems: Problems, Detection and Solutions
for Stripper Well Systems, The Pennsylvania State University
Field Demonstration of a New Low Cost Hydraulically
Operated Insertable Pump for Stripper Wells, Salt River
Engineering
A Optimizing Stripper Well Production with JLS
Gas Drive Fluid Lifting System, Jet Lifting Systems
Solar
Powered Pump Jack for Stripper Wells, R&A Moore, Inc.
Can
a Simple Control Make More Oil?, Oil Well Sentry
Demonstration of Directed Slotting-Fracturing Technology, Hydroslotter Corp.
Validation of Incremental Oil
Productions via Single Well and Reservoir Field Trials
Involving In Situ Stimulation of Indigenous Microorganisms,
RAM Biochemicals
For information, contact the SWC at
814-865-9802 or visit:
www.energy.psu.edu/swc. |
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