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Record W2334699374 · doi:10.3720/japt.67.547

Sour gas injection in offshore Abu Dhabi UAE.

2002· article· en· W2334699374 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Yoji Yamamoto

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicOil, Gas, and Environmental Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAbu dhabiSour gasAcid gasNatural gasWaste managementFossil fuelPetroleum engineeringSubmarine pipelineEngineeringEnvironmental scienceArchaeologyGeographyGeotechnical engineering

Abstract

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Abu Dhabi Oil Co., Ltd. (Japan) operates three offshore oil fields, namely Mubarraz, Umm Al-Anbar (hereafter referred to as AR) and Neewat Al-Ghalan (hereafter referred to as GA) Fields, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.AR and GA Fields are oil fields containing high concentration of H2S and CO2 within the associated gas, which are highly corrosive to metal and extremely toxic to humans. The highest levels of precaution for safety were taken in the development policy as well as in the design of the facilities. Meanwhile, gas injection into oil reservoirs had been planned for EOR from the commencement of production, which in turn met the gas conservation policy of Abu Dhabi Government.Given that high-pressure sour gas injection technology was not available in the mid-1980's, H2S and CO2 in produced sour gas had to be extracted by a gas sweetening unit and the sweet gas was then injected into the reservoirs. The sour gas fed from low-pressure separators and acid gas fed from the gas sweetening unit were flared at the artificial island located at the center of the AR Field, namely AR Site Terminal. Since then, various methods to resolve this flaring issue, such as sulfur recovery, production of fertilizer or plaster and disposal of liquid sulfur into underground formations, etc. have been investigated and studied as a priority. However, none of them were economically and/or technically feasible.After a site survey in Calgary, Canada, and in-house extensive studies, it was concluded that sour gas injection was technically and economically feasible. The basic engineering study was commenced in November 1997, and the detail engineering was started in March 1998. The facilities for the sour gas injection were constructed between July 1999 and May 2000 in AR Site Terminal, comprising of two units of low and high-pressure sour gas compressors and one sour gas dehydrator. At the initial stage of the commissioning of the facilities, problems such as vibration of the low-pressure compressors and scale plugging at the strainer were encountered, which caused the delay in the completion of the project.After resolving these difficulties in November 2000, the sour gas injection has been working successfully. The sour gas injection is the first challenge in the Arabian Gulf region, achieving gas conservation, environmental protection and enhanced oil recovery, simultaneously.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.532
Threshold uncertainty score0.461

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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