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Frontiers of Engineering Management

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Front. Eng    2016, Vol. 3 Issue (4) : 356-361    https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FEM-2016057
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES
Risk Identification and Mitigation Strategies for Deepwater Oilfields Development
Bao-quan Yang(),Li Yang,Fan-jie Shang,Xin Zhang,Chen-xi Li
CNOOC Research Institute, Beijing 100028, China
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Abstract

Deepwater oilfields will become main sources of the world’s oil and gas production. It is characterized with high technology, huge investment, long duration, high risk and high profit. It is a huge system project, including exploration and appraising, field development plan (FDP) design, implementation, reservoir management and optimization. Actually, limited data, international environment and oil price will cause much uncertainty for FDP design and production management. Any unreasonable decision will cause huge loss. Thus, risk foreseeing and mitigation strategies become more important. This paper takes AKPO and EGINA as examples to analyze the main uncertainties, proposes mitigation strategies, and provides valuable experiences for the other deepwater oilfields development.

Keywords deepwater oilfield      field development plan      implementation      reservoir management      risk identification      mitigation strategies     
Corresponding Author(s): Bao-quan Yang   
Online First Date: 07 December 2016    Issue Date: 27 December 2016
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Bao-quan Yang,Li Yang,Fan-jie Shang, et al. Risk Identification and Mitigation Strategies for Deepwater Oilfields Development[J]. Front. Eng, 2016, 3(4): 356-361.
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Fig.1  FPSO and subsea system of AKPO oilfield.
Project AKPO EGINA Purpose
Mud logging 5 wells 5 wells Geological analysis
Well logging Conventional wireline logging on 5 wells, sonic logging on 5 wells, resistivity imaging logging on 3 wells Conventional wireline logging on 5 wells, sonic logging on 5 wells, resistivity imaging logging on 5 wells, NMR logging on 5 wells Geological analysis
Coring 4 wells 4 wells Reservoir characteristics, lab test
Sidewall coring 2 wells 1 well Reservoir characteristics
Pressure 5 wells, 435 pressure points 5 wells, 354 pressure points OWC and reservoir connectivity
DST 3 wells, 5 in total 3 wells, 3 in total Productivity and reservoir analysis
Fluid sampling 5 wells, 22 MDT samples, 5 DST samples 5 wells, 64 MDT samples Fluid properties
Tab.1  Data Acquisition of AKPO and EGINA at Appraisal Stage
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