The UK’s main natural gas storage facility on the Rough Field in the North Sea. It is an offshore storage that originally belonged to BG which set it up as a storage facility about 20 years ago as a strategic storage to support the grid if it failed or if one of their major gas …
In the energy industry, this refers to the equal market access that all players must have in a competitive market
An Industry Recommended Practice is a set of best practices and guidelines compiled by knowledgeable and experienced industry and government personnel intended to provide the operator or user with advice regarding the topic considered. IRPs are NOT a regulation. In the case of an inconsistency or conflict with any applicable legislative requirement, the legislative requirement …
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In the framework of the peace treaty between Israel Jordan the integrated development Master Plan for the Jordan Rift Valley, the Red Sea – Dead Sea was considered to be one of the most important potential elements for implementing this Master Plan. The principal development objective of the RSDSC was to provide desalinated drinking water …
Occasionally, a hole is lost or junked and a second hole may be drilled from the surface in close proximity to the first. Footage drilled for the second hole is defined as “redrill footage.” Under these circumstances, the first hole is reported as a dry hole (exploratory or developmental) and the total footage is reported …
The cost of re-drilling a plugged well that was potentially abandoned because it was a marginal well could be as much as or even more than drilling a new well
An installation method based on the onshore assembly of long sections of rigid steel pipeline, about 1 km long, which are welded together as they are spooled onto a vessel-mounted reel for transit and subsequent cost-effective unreeling onto the seabed. Minimum welding is done at sea
A method that allows the operator to re-enter a primary wellbore from a lateral wellbore after the lateral wellbore has been completed. Reentering lateral wells is necessary to perform completion work, additional drilling and/or remedial and stimulation work
Inside a refinery tower, the liquids and vapors separate into components or fractions according to their density and boiling point. The lightest fractions, including gasoline and liquid petroleum gas vaporize and rise to the top of the tower, where they condense back to liquids. Medium-weight liquids, including kerosene and diesel oil, stay in the middle. …
The refinery of oil entails the break down of crude oil down into its various components, which then are selectively changed into new products. All refineries perform three basic steps: separation (fractional distillation), conversion (cracking and rearranging the molecules) and treatment. The crude oil separates into fractions in a distillation tower according to weight and …
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