Techno-Economic and Risk Evaluation of a Thermal Recovery Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The thermal project studied in this work is a tertiary steam flood recovery project started in May 1989 by Union Pacific Resources Company (UPRC), in the Tar Zone reservoir of Fault Block II Unit located in the Wilmington Field, Los Angeles County, California.An analytical steam flood model was applied to determine an overall heat balance for the project and predict future production rates. An important feature of the analysis is the determination of heat losses due to produced fluids from the wellbore, a factor sometimes not taken account of in analytical methods. The model gave a fairly close history match with the production data.An economic analysis of the project was carried out using capital budgeting and discounted cash flow techniques.Since many of the input parameters for the models were uncertain, a risk evaluation was carried out for both the technical and the economic analysis, by using Monte-Carlo simulation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | March 1996 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Joshi, Sameer |
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| Primary advisor | Brigham, William E. |
| Advisor | Castanier, Louis M. |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Petroleum Engineering |
Subjects
| Subject | School of Earth Energy & Environmental Sciences |
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| Genre | Thesis |
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- Joshi, Sameer. (1996). Techno-Economic and Risk Evaluation of a Thermal Recovery Project. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/dx534px5545
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Master's Theses, Doerr School of Sustainability
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