A Probe into the Development Laws of Large Gas Fields

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10.2991/icaees-15.2015.88How to use a DOI?

Keywords

large gas fields; development law; stable production period; EUR; peak shaving; resource security strategy

Abstract

Large gas fields occupy a dominant position in natural gas exploration and development. Many of them are at their mature stage and most are exploited effectively. Therefore it is necessary to study their successful experience to guide undeveloped gas fields. Based on analysis of more than 200 mature large gas fields, the general laws are discussed. Firstly, large gas fields should guarantee a long stable production period through two different kinds of styles. Secondly, EUR of large gas fields is generally high if successful measures are implemented against development risks mainly including uncertainties of structural features, reservoir permeability and drive mechanism. Thirdly, large gas fields need to undertake more responsibility to deal with short-term peak shaving based on strict criteria of suitable characteristics. Finally, more protection priority should be given to strategic gas fields while taking long-term resource security strategy into account.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuping Sun
AU  - Jialiang Lu
AU  - Hongjun Tang
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - A Probe into the Development Laws of Large Gas Fields
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environmental Science 2015
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 472
EP  - 476
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icaees-15.2015.88
DO  - 10.2991/icaees-15.2015.88
ID  - Sun2015/07
ER  -