Henni, A.
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1600年
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Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)卷
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65期
关键词:
Growing global demand for natural gas has pushed oil and gas companies to increase the development of sour gas fields;
which contain about a third of the world's gas reserves. In the Middle East;
developing sour gas fields have become a priority of local governments because of soaring regional gas consumption. ADNOC selected Shell to participate in a 30-year joint venture to develop the Bab sour gas reservoirs in Abu Dhabi. Shell will hold a 40% equity stake with ADNOC holding 60%. ADNOC has also sent letters to companies inviting them to submit bids for the offshore Hail sour gas field. In Saudi Arabia;
Saudi Aramco has begun production from the offshore nonassociated sour gas field Karan;
which is designed to produce 1.8 Bscf/D of dry gas by 2014. In Kuwait;
Shell is assisting Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)with high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) sour gas fields;
in which deep exploration wells present challenging drilling conditions;