Management of cross-border hydrocarbon migration in various development plans, a case study of shared oil and gas fields Online publication date: Tue, 30-Sep-2014
by Mahdi Hasanvand; Sara Shokrollahzadeh Behbahani; Abolfazl Hashemi
International Journal of Petroleum Engineering (IJPE), Vol. 1, No. 2, 2014
Abstract: A reservoir that has formed through millions of years of sedimentation almost never conforms to the established borderlines that define political entities or legal jurisdictions of neighbouring countries. The term shared reservoir is given to such hydrocarbon deposits. While it is a country's right to exploit its underground resources as it wishes, any production from a shared reservoir can have irreversible consequences for the whole reservoir. This study investigates all main factors that influence production from shared oil and gas reservoirs and demonstrates how and the extent to which each neighbouring country is affected by variations of these factors. Then, the findings are applied to an Iranian-Qatari shared gas-condensate reservoir to investigate gas migration. In this study, Eclipse software is used for the simulation of the shared reservoir based on published field data.
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