Upstream oil and gas facility energy efficiency tools

Optimizing the energy consumption of Upstream Oil & Gas (UOG) facilities offers opportunities to reduce operating costs, increase revenues and address greenhouse gas emissions, all with cost-effective actions. All of these objectives have been achieved through the application of performance benchmarking, auditing and simulation tools to oil and gas production facilities in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Combining the experience of applying these tools and the database that has been developed, an energy intensity correlation has been developed. The energy intensity correlation provides insight into the day-to-day management and operation of facilities with a focus on energy management as the key to a continuous improvement program. The energy intensity correlation demonstrates that only a few key production variables control processing energy intensity and that energy optimization programs must focus on those plant components that affect production and key production variables. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.