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U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory. DOE Projects to Benefit Alaska February 26, 2003. William (Bill) F. Lawson National Petroleum Technology Office. DOE Goals.

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U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory

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  1. U.S. Department of EnergyNational Energy Technology Laboratory DOE Projects to Benefit Alaska February 26, 2003 William (Bill) F. Lawson National Petroleum Technology Office

  2. DOE Goals • Assist Communities, Producers, State and Federal Government by Providing Sound Science for Regulation and Development of Alaska’s Resources • Provides Enabling or Breakthrough Technologies for Alaskan and Arctic Conditions.

  3. Information Flows From DOE To the Field

  4. NETL Current Petroleum Projects • Nine Current RD&D Projects - upstream, downstream and environmental • Alaska Oil & Gas Exploration: Development and Permitting Project • Northeast NPR-Alaska Reconnaissance Level Airborne Contaminants Study • Evaluation of Potential Coal Bed Methane Beneath Priority Sites in Rural Alaska • Development and Demonstration of Mobile Small Footprint Exploration and Development Well System for the Arctic Unconventional Gas Resources • Methane Hydrate Characterization and Quantification • Conversion Extraction Desulfurization Process • Biocatalyst Desulfurization • Challenges in Transport of GTL Liquids through TAPS • Transport of Gas Liquids from ANS to Markets • Oxygen Transport Ceramic Membrane • DOE Arctic Energy Office in Alaska • UAF-DOE Cooperative Agreement on Energy Technology RD&D • Projects Outside Alaska can have an impact on Alaska • Drilling Technologies, Environmental Cleanup and Waste Management

  5. DOE’s Role in Developing Technologies To Address Environmental, Supply, and Reliability Constraints of Producing and Using Fossil Energy

  6. Alaska Oil & Gas Exploration: Development and Permitting Project – by State of Alaska • Eliminate three closely inter-related barriers to oil production in Alaska through the use of a geographic information system (GIS) and other information technology strategies • Barriers involve: • Identifying of oil development potential from existing wells • Planning projects to efficiently avoid conflicts with other interests • Gaining state approvals for exploration and development projects • Solution a web-based system will enable the public and other review participants to track permit status, submit and view comments, and obtain important project information on-line. • Automating several functions of the current manual process, permit applications will be completed more quickly and accurately, and agencies will be able to complete reviews with fewer delays.

  7. Cooperative Efforts with other Federal, State and Local Groups • Federal Leadership Forum • Working Group of Land Management Agencies and DOE • Participate with BLM-Montana office • State of Montana, Statewide EIS • NE-NPR Alaska Research & Monitoring Team • Participate in State Review Process of Environmental Regulatory Practices

  8. Research and Monitoring Team • Northeast National Petroleum Reserve –Alaska Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact Statement • Plan establishes procedures and advisory bodies to address subsistence and research concerns. • Representatives from Federal, State, and North Slope Borough agencies, the oil industry, environmental groups, academia and other interested parties will be invited to participate on the research and monitoring team. • Team will coordinate research and monitoring projects in NE-NPR-Alaska

  9. Northeast National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska Reconnaissance Level Airborne Contaminants Study by Bureau of Land Management • Operated under the Research and Monitoring Team • Air contaminant baseline study in Northeast NPR - Alaska • Study effects of airborne contaminants on watersheds • Expand the number of index sites in Northeast Alaska • Determine current air contaminants and provide a baseline to determine the fate and effect of future oilfield activities • Provide environmental quality baseline for the indigenous people of the Alaskan Arctic

  10. Coalbed Methane Studies – Lessons from other States • Water Management Practices • Better Science on Water Quality • Soil Quality and CBM Water Effects • Production Techniques Improved and Refined • Beneficial Uses of CBM Water • Improved Coal Seam Aquifer Recharge Science • Enhanced Geology and Geophysical Science

  11. Coalbed Methane Potential in Alaska • Alaska contains half of the coal resources of the United States • Estimate of Alaskan coalbed methane reserves- 1,000 Tcf • One billion cubic ft of producible CBM reserves would provide a community of 700 people electricity for 30 years • Highest prospective CBM coal basins in Alaska • Western North Slope Basin near Wainwright • Alaska Peninsula near Chignik Bay • Yukon Flats Basin at Fork Yukon • Source: Alaska GeoSurvey News June 2001

  12. Development and Demonstration of Mobile Small Footprint Exploration and Development Well System for the Arctic Unconventional Gas Resources by NANA Development Corp. • Goal to provide an economic, local alternative fuel source for remote Arctic villages and industrial complexes • Provide a lower cost, efficient fuel source to Native villagesPlanned development of unconventional gas resource • Develop natural gas sites near where it will be used • Natural gas to displace trucked-n diesel fuel for engines and electric power generation • Significantly reduce emissions • Reduce fuel cost • 3 inch slimhole drill rig designed to explore and produce unconventional gas • Performers • NANA Development Corp., Teck Cominco -Red Dog Mine, and Advanced Resources International

  13. Mobile Slimhole Rig and Tool

  14. Pushing the Limits of Science and Technology - MicroDrilling

  15. Methane Hydrate Researchby Maurer Technology & Anadarko Petroleum • Objective: evaluate subsurface hydrate occurrence and production potential • Hydrates resource in Arctic is estimated at 11,000 to 24,000 Tcf • Develop specialized drilling platform • Determine best practices for safe and economic drilling and production of methane hydrates in the Alaskan permafrost • Chilled drilling fluids to insure core recovery using hard rock mining rig in Kuparuk oil field. • 3 year, $10 million cost-shared with Anadarko and DOE

  16. Arctic Drilling/Production Platform(Maurer /Anadarko) • Good for the environment (reduced footprint) • Good for industry (year round access) • 1/2 scale platform designed & built • 1 drilling pad for 36 wells • Moved to Alaska in late December 2002 • Drilling in March 2003

  17. Methane Hydrate R&D Activities • Laboratory studies • Pure hydrate/hydrate-sediments mixtures • Tool development • Remote, geophysical characterization • Sampling and analysis in the field • Field studies • Marine Environments • Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic • Arctic Regions • Canada, Alaska • Model development

  18. Field Sampling and Analysis ToolsAdditional State-of-the-Art Tools • Mobile Analysis Laboratory • Onsite sample analysis • Maurer/Anadarko • RAMAN Spectroscopy • In-situ crystal structure characteristics • Pacific Northwest National Lab • Infrared-imaging • Quickly locates hydrates in cores • Pacific Northwest National Lab • X-Ray Linear Scanner • Imaging pore structure of hydrate core • Lawrence Berkley Lab • Hydrate Coring/Handling/Analysis Handbook • Best practices from well to lab • Westport Interior of Mobile Lab Scanning laser Raman

  19. Gas Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone (GLCC) Objective: • Develop and improve a three-phase gas-liquid cylindrical cyclone (GLCC) separator Participants: • University of Tulsa, plus 15 industry JIP members Successes: • Reduced footprint and 3 fold cost savings over conventional separators • Field application demonstrated a savings of $3.2 million over conventional separators • Offshore non-producing oil well brought back to life at 1000 B/day Technology that Works Goes to the Field Immediately – Alaska, Indonesia, Venezuela

  20. Conversion Extraction Desulfurization Process and the Biocatalyst Desulfurization Project by PetroStar Inc. • Both projects aimed at meeting EPA requirements on sulfur content in fuel • Two desulfurization strategies • Chemical Extraction • Biocatalyst Desulfurization • Applicable to other small refiners who cannot afford a high-pressure hydrotreater and hydrogen plant PetroStar Valdez Refinery

  21. Insert slide on GTL

  22. Projects Outside Alaska that can be Beneficial to Alaskan Independents • Simultaneous Injection Pilot Project: Phase I – Feasibility Study - Argonne National Laboratory • Design and Development of Gas Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone Compact Separators for Three Phase Flow - University of Tulsa • Improved Oilfield Waste Injection Techniques – Terralog Technologies • Advanced Cuttings Transport Study – University of Tulsa • Disposal of Drill cuttings into Unconsolidated Sandstones and Clayey Sands – Westport Technology

  23. Improved Oilfield Waste Injection Techniques by Terralog Technologies • Waste injection projects in Alaska, California, Louisiana and Canada • Develop a cost-effective waste injection technique • Containment of waste in target interval • Sequence of sands and shales, better than a single shale • Slurry mix of 10-40% by volume solids • Screening method eliminates larger material and handles it separately • Reduces cost of producing slurry, because the process does not grind unnecessary material • Develop software for prediction and control of fracture propagation in soft formations • Visualization of changes in fractures by injection invasion • New integrated rock mechanics and fluid flow models • Monitor injection rate daily to maintain episodic high rate injection

  24. DOE Benefits to Alaska • Technology in Time • Broker of Sound Science • Partners with the Community • Protect the Environment

  25. Find more information about the Department of Energy and its programs at the following web sites: • www.fe.doe.gov – DOE Fossil Energy Office (project fact sheets and educational information) • www.npto.doe.gov – Oil programs and Environmental programs (E&P software downloads) • www.netl.doe.gov – Natural Gas programs, Coal programs and Fuels programs • www.eren.doe.gov – Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency • www.pttc.org – Petroleum Technology Transfer Council technology links • www.osti.org – Free technical reports • www.sc.doe.gov – Fellowships and Education Opportunities Bill.Lawson@netl.doe.gov

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