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TERTIARY PRODUCTION [4 records]

Record 1 2023-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
DEF

Quantité de biomasse produite par des organismes carnivores.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Colaboración con la FAO
  • Pesca comercial
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Record 2 2019-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Engineering
  • Oil Drilling
  • Petroleum Deposits
DEF

... an engineer who is involved in most stages of oil and gas field evaluation, development, and production, whose job is to maximize hydrocarbon recovery and reduce costs and environmental impact.

CONT

Petroleum engineers develop and implement effective techniques for recovering, processing, and producing oil and natural gas. They apply engineering, environmental, and economic principles to ensure that exploration and development of oil and gas fields are efficient, cost effective, and environmentally safe. These engineers can specialize in drilling, reservoir management, completions, production, operations, secondary and tertiary recovery methods, and pipelines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Ingénierie
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Gisements pétrolifères
CONT

Les ingénieurs pétroliers développent des techniques efficaces de récupération, de traitement et de production de pétrole et de gaz naturel. Ils appliquent des principes d'économie, d'environnement et d'ingénierie pour garantir l'exploitation et le développement efficaces, rentables et écologiques des champs de gaz et de pétrole. Ces ingénieurs se spécialisent dans le forage, la gestion des réservoirs, la réalisation, la production, l'exploitation, les méthodes de recouvrement secondaires ou tertiaires ou les pipelines.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Deposits
OBS

Oilfields, after a certain production period, are then called mature fields. Mature fields are those where the recovered oil fraction is close to the final recovery factor. Its mature phase is generally accompanied by an increasing production of water or gas, plus the aging of surface and subsurface equipment. To revitalize mature fields, a series of technologies is developed to increase the final recovery factor through treatments on a field(the so-called tertiary petroleum recovery) or well(stimulation, recompletion, treatments and logging) scale, in addition to optimizing the techniques relating to oil lift, its surface flow and treatment.

OBS

Many mature gas fields also have a fairly significant production decline, especially when development drilling has come to an end. These mature fields can be revitalized in many ways. In some instances, efforts are focused on the reservoir with further drilling to drain potentially unswept hydrocarbons with infill wells or horizontal laterals. The horizontal drilling might be from new wellbores or wells that are currently temporarily abandoned or near their economic limit. With the increase in horizontal-well activity, there is an abundance of new technology with advances in gravel-pack design, underbalanced drilling with coiled tubing, and coiled-tubing fracturing. Besides these production improvements, operators are revamping both downhole and surface facilities to help breathe new life into older fields. Advances are taking place in the areas of artificial lift, intelligent-well completions, expandable tubulars, and others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gisements pétrolifères
OBS

Les gisements du Néocomien s'épuisent en moyenne de 6 % par an, il nous fallait arrêter ce déclin par une revitalisation des champs pétrolifères que nous exploitons actuellement.

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production (Economics)
  • Oil Production
CONT

... tertiary recovery methods... could increase these recovery factors substantially. For this reason : recovery technology and production economics must be analyzed in some detail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production (Économie)
  • Production pétrolière

Spanish

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