Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
TABLE 8.2
Gas Storage Field Technology: Near-Term, High Priority Research Needs
Reservoir
Mechanical
WaterIssues
DataManagement
FormationDamage
Develop methods to increase
injectivity to provide
increased cycling capability
and/or reduced fuel usage.
Develop better
understanding of
maximum delta
temperature that
casings can withstand
without failure of
cement or joints.
Find new approach to
handling produced water.
Develop low cost, low
maintenance ±10%
multiphase wellhead gas
measurement system.
Continue investment in
skin damage.
remediation technology
Remove N
2
/CO
2
near
well and wellbore for
scales, ines, salts,
asphalt, etc.
Develop technology to
maintain existing path from
formation to wellbore for gas
low.
Improve corrosion
management methods
to enhance availability
(especially bacterial
control).
Develop new tools (e.g.,
logging) and techniques
to verify integrity of
casing strings.
Develop cost-effective
means to remove water at
end of withdrawal season.
Develop ways to delay or
prevent “watering off.”
Prevent water from
encroaching on wellbore
and reducing relative
permeability.
Develop web-based data
management tool to
automatically store,
archive, retrieve, and
analyze routinely collected
surveillance data.
Cost effectively identify
and treat well damage
mechanisms.
Conduct basic research
aimed at revealing most
common reservoir
damages.
Demonstrate by research that
changing wettability increases
gas deliverability.
Develop innovative
technologies (e.g., gas
wettability) to increase
capacity of existing storage
ields at low cost.
Research improvements
in deliverability by
mechanical means
such as new coil tubing
tools.
Develop cross technologies
and data mining for E&P.
Improve clean-out and
simulation techniques to
remediate damage.
