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 Sustainability Strategy Commitments
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UKOOA Sustainability Strategy 2002 - First Report
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1. Economic Sustainability
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1.3 Developing new technologies
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Commitment No. 13 - Technological innovation: focus on opportunity areas
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"We are supporting (through individual companies initiatives and ITF) stimulation technological innovation to benefit mature fields which need technology breakthroughs to enhance recovery and prolong field life, small satellite fields, where reducing uncertainty could trigger important development decisions, and difficult larger finds that cannot be developed because the technology is not yet available. The focus will be on:
- Facilities (downhole and subsea processing, subsea tiebacks, flow assurance, de-bottlenecking, FPSOs associated gas management, facilities automation and decommissioning)
- Subsurface (basin evaluation, understanding of faults and fractures, reservoir modelling, smart wells, reservoir management, water shut-off, sub-basalt/salt imaging)
- Wells (under-balanced drilling, coiled tubing, rotary drilling through tubing, slender wells, more diameter wells, finder wells, multi laterals, super-smart wells, well intervention vessels, well decommissioning)."
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Progress to date : achievements and difficulties encountered
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ITF is concentrating its efforts on three key themes: subsea development, emissions control and maximising recovery from mature fields. Workshops have been held and proposals to assist companies in the use of new technologies will be tabled during the second half of 2002.
LOGIC, through its various technically oriented initiatives and broader industry events, is also facilitating and highlighting areas for collaborative projects in conjunction with ITF (see also Commitment No. 2 and No. 3).
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Website References
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Sustainability Strategy Commitments
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