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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND PROCESSING-PROCESS INTENSIFICATION
Volume 159, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2020.108189
Keywords
Oil production carbon footprint; Oil and gas production in the Arctic region; Associated petroleum gas
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Despite efforts to green the global economy, oil production in the Arctic region still faces challenges of high energy consumption and carbon emissions. A proposed method using synthetic oil technology aims to reduce the carbon footprint of oil production in the Arctic by up to 24%.
Despite the efforts to green the global economy, the non-renewable resources are still one of the major components of energy mix. The growing energy demand and depletion of deposits around the globe make the production of oil in the Arctic region a more and more attractive option. However, heavy and high-viscosity oils (HVO), typical for the Arctic region, require considerable amount of energy to be extracted. This, in turn, could lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions producing more sever negative environmental impact than the production of non-renewable resources in other regions of the world. This research presents an approach designed to reduce carbon footprint related to hydrocarbons production in the Arctic region. The proposed method is based on the technology used to produce synthetic oil from associated petroleum gas and mixing it with the extracted crude oil. It allows decreasing the viscosity of produced oil, which facilitates oilfield exploitation,limits costly use ofpetroleum gas, and diminishes heat consumption needed for the transport of oil. The performed simulation using ASPEN Hysys shows that the carbon footprint of the proposed process will be lower by up to 24 % than the results obtained for the technology that is being currently used at the oilfields in the Arctic region.
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