New Extreme Oil and Gas in the Danish North Sea - NextOil DK

With easy accessible oil and gas dwindling, we need to push our technical envelope to produce oil and gas from the reservoirs at high pressure and high temperature (HP/HT) conditions, where the pressure can be up to 1000 atm and the temperature up to 200 oC. Several HP/HT reservoirs are discovered in Denmark, such as the Hejre and the Svane fields. Hejre is expected to produce in the near future and Svane is under a feasibility study. HP/HT reservoirs are risky to develop but highly rewarding if we can successfully produce them. In this newly started project, Technical University of Denmark will work closely with the Danish Oil industries and GEO to investigate three areas related to HP/HT reservoirs, including rock mechanics, reservoir fluid properties and scaling in production. By adding crucial knowledge in these areas, the project will reduce risks and uncertainties in well drilling, resource estimation and production forecast, and wellbore plugging due to scaling.