Description
CPF Complex Unconventional HC:
- Isolated green-field development of two nearby unconventional oil fields required processing facilities for gas – oil – produced water – slop streams – freshwater – power generation
Challenge
- High GOR oil resulted in high yields of a rich gas stream
- High salinity posed challenges to the desalting process
- Auto & inter incompatible HCs produced emulsifying HC solid aggregates
- Isolated fields with no nearby infrastructure
- Market context and geological uncertainties conditioned investment options, which required staged and scalable facilities to cope with production success and funds availability
Project Development
- Assessment of different processing schemes and main processing equipment technologies
- Defined project staging and modularization to match investment curve while addressing production and investment uncertainties
- Cost estimation to weight options versus operational advantages
Outcome
- Evolutive design composed of modules and trains allowed facility growth both in capacity and treatment intensity to cope with production demands, sales objectives, and CAPEX constraints.
- Maximized saleable HCs streams with no emissions and no burning of rich gas streams
- Embedded HCs stabilization process with power generation capabilities to reduce GHG emissions
- Auto power generation capabilities + surplus for implementation of a gas-to-wire solution
- Minimized freshwater consumption
- Process embedded with solids and waste management system to reduce effluents
