A graphical approach of reserves estimation of hydrocarbon fields of the future platforms in the Pattani and North Malay Basins. | |
| Author | Apiwat Burapavijitnon |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.GE-10-10 |
| Subject(s) | Petroleum--Geology--Pattani Basin Petroleum--Geology--North Malay Basin |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Geosystem Exploration and Petroleum Geoengineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. GE-10-10 |
| Abstract | The Gulf of Thailand has small and complex geological structures of petroleum fields. It leads to high uncertainty of estimation of reserves. Especially, evaluating petroleum reserves using volumetric approach would take excessive time and personal. After 30 years of petroleum exploration and production in the Gulf of Thailand, more than 5000 wells were drilled and nearly 180 platforms established. 2010 year-end cumulative production is more than 14 TCF. Because of abundance of data, this thesis aims to use a simple statistical approaches to determine petroleum accumulation trends and to predict reserves in the future platforms in the short time for both the Pattani and the North Malay basins by using estimated ultimate recovery per well and estimated ultimate recovery per platform. Then use estimated ultimate recovery per well and estimated ultimate recovery per platform to construct contour maps. The last step is to use the contour maps to predict reserves for future platforms This study applies kriging interpolation approach in order to predict reserve in future platform when comparison predicted reserves values with estimated reserves values from oil and gas average value and deviation values of % relative error are 47.84 and 42.50 respectively. Therefore, this method cannot use to predict reserve in future platforms because it provides high of error. |
| Year | 2010 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. GE-10-10 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Geotechnical Engineering (GE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Pham Huy Giao; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Trin Intaraprasong;Bergado, Dennes T.; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | H.M. King Scholarship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2011 |