Today’s major challenge for the oil industry is to achieve a secure energy supply for the 21st century to meet the community’s voracious demand for energy at an affordable price. At the same time CO2 emissions must be reduced and kept under control as they are responsible for global warming. It is a fact that all companies must commit to prepare a global sustainable energy plan, in order to improve climate and protect the environment. Technical challenges in the Petroleum Upstream Sector are growing and becoming more and more difficult to face. The continuous increase of fossil fuel demand means producing more and being able to replace production with new reserves at the same speed. The task is not easy, especially if we consider the present situation: the lack of easy targets for exploration, the decreasing quality of discovered hydrocarbons, the shortage of skilled human resources, the more stringent environmental rules, the need to contain CO2 emissions, the growing prices of raw materials, … just to mention some of the issues we have to face. The only key to overcome all these issues is technology. Given the extent of the challenge, in order to be effective our efforts must focus on priorities. First of all sustainability, because in all its aspects it is a major concern for the future of the Oil and Gas Industry and therefore all papers dealing with related topics have been particularly appreciated. GHG and CO2 management, whose impact on all the different activities is growing fast, is a subject extensively discussed during OMC 2009. It is quite obvious to stress reserves replacement as a fundamental issue for all Oil Companies but much less obvious is how to solve the problem: fresh ideas about new frontier exploration and how to increase recovery factor will be very positively evaluated. In the context of reserves replacement particular emphasis has been given to all types of unconventional resources including not only heavy oils, tight gas, coal bed methane but also highly sour gas and deep gas. All aspects related to economic and effective exploitation of these resources have been considered particularly worthy of attention. Methane hydrates, among unconventional resources, are playing an emerging role but a lot of technical work is still to be done, therefore contributions on this topic have been most welcome. It is evident how important gas is in reserves replacement, but sometimes factors such as its location far from the markets, or its occurrence in small quantities associated to oil, could be a hurdle for economic exploitation; as a consequence of these considerations papers dealing with different aspects of the gas value chain heve been appreciated and carefully considered for the final program. OMC 2009 Conference and Exhibition was an unprecedented success thanks to the quality of papers presented and top level Exhibitors from worldwide. 20 years have passed and OMC is continuing to make a daily effort to improve, looking at the oil and gas scenario and being able to reflect worldwide trends in its conference and exhibition. Through 2008 and 2009 OMC has shared the worries and difficulties affecting the international oil and gas operators, when energy prices, strictly connected to the increasing demand and the lack of the necessary infrastructures, had reached an unbearable level in 2009. Fortunately, the oil price today appears to have found a certain stability and experts now predict a level of 70-80 $/b as an acceptable compromise price in 2010. Despite the difficult international situation the attendee figures for OMC 2009 have shown an unpredicted success: 1065 delegates, 368 exhibitors, over 8000 visitors from 34 countries worldwide; 102 Papers were presented in 23 Technical Sessions.

9-th Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC) Ravenna, 25-27 March 2009 / M. Chiaramonte; C. Bladier; C. Bowen; M. Cercato; J. Cole-Hamilton; E. Deville; C. Glennon; D. Madalena; E. Mesini; C. Muniz; J. Oppelt; R. Pozzi; P.A. Thomas; C. Valenchon; B. Van Bommel; D. Vardanega; F. Verga; N. Wali; S. Young. - (2009).

9-th Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC) Ravenna, 25-27 March 2009

MESINI, EZIO;
2009

Abstract

Today’s major challenge for the oil industry is to achieve a secure energy supply for the 21st century to meet the community’s voracious demand for energy at an affordable price. At the same time CO2 emissions must be reduced and kept under control as they are responsible for global warming. It is a fact that all companies must commit to prepare a global sustainable energy plan, in order to improve climate and protect the environment. Technical challenges in the Petroleum Upstream Sector are growing and becoming more and more difficult to face. The continuous increase of fossil fuel demand means producing more and being able to replace production with new reserves at the same speed. The task is not easy, especially if we consider the present situation: the lack of easy targets for exploration, the decreasing quality of discovered hydrocarbons, the shortage of skilled human resources, the more stringent environmental rules, the need to contain CO2 emissions, the growing prices of raw materials, … just to mention some of the issues we have to face. The only key to overcome all these issues is technology. Given the extent of the challenge, in order to be effective our efforts must focus on priorities. First of all sustainability, because in all its aspects it is a major concern for the future of the Oil and Gas Industry and therefore all papers dealing with related topics have been particularly appreciated. GHG and CO2 management, whose impact on all the different activities is growing fast, is a subject extensively discussed during OMC 2009. It is quite obvious to stress reserves replacement as a fundamental issue for all Oil Companies but much less obvious is how to solve the problem: fresh ideas about new frontier exploration and how to increase recovery factor will be very positively evaluated. In the context of reserves replacement particular emphasis has been given to all types of unconventional resources including not only heavy oils, tight gas, coal bed methane but also highly sour gas and deep gas. All aspects related to economic and effective exploitation of these resources have been considered particularly worthy of attention. Methane hydrates, among unconventional resources, are playing an emerging role but a lot of technical work is still to be done, therefore contributions on this topic have been most welcome. It is evident how important gas is in reserves replacement, but sometimes factors such as its location far from the markets, or its occurrence in small quantities associated to oil, could be a hurdle for economic exploitation; as a consequence of these considerations papers dealing with different aspects of the gas value chain heve been appreciated and carefully considered for the final program. OMC 2009 Conference and Exhibition was an unprecedented success thanks to the quality of papers presented and top level Exhibitors from worldwide. 20 years have passed and OMC is continuing to make a daily effort to improve, looking at the oil and gas scenario and being able to reflect worldwide trends in its conference and exhibition. Through 2008 and 2009 OMC has shared the worries and difficulties affecting the international oil and gas operators, when energy prices, strictly connected to the increasing demand and the lack of the necessary infrastructures, had reached an unbearable level in 2009. Fortunately, the oil price today appears to have found a certain stability and experts now predict a level of 70-80 $/b as an acceptable compromise price in 2010. Despite the difficult international situation the attendee figures for OMC 2009 have shown an unpredicted success: 1065 delegates, 368 exhibitors, over 8000 visitors from 34 countries worldwide; 102 Papers were presented in 23 Technical Sessions.
2009
9-th Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC) Ravenna, 25-27 March 2009 / M. Chiaramonte; C. Bladier; C. Bowen; M. Cercato; J. Cole-Hamilton; E. Deville; C. Glennon; D. Madalena; E. Mesini; C. Muniz; J. Oppelt; R. Pozzi; P.A. Thomas; C. Valenchon; B. Van Bommel; D. Vardanega; F. Verga; N. Wali; S. Young. - (2009).
M. Chiaramonte; C. Bladier; C. Bowen; M. Cercato; J. Cole-Hamilton; E. Deville; C. Glennon; D. Madalena; E. Mesini; C. Muniz; J. Oppelt; R. Pozzi; P.A. Thomas; C. Valenchon; B. Van Bommel; D. Vardanega; F. Verga; N. Wali; S. Young
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