A.1 DOPT-REVOLUTIONARY COMPOSITE DEEPWATER (up to 6km) OIL/GAS PRODUCTION & TRANSPORT SYSTEM |
After several years of Comprehensive Research, Design,Development & Model Trials in Sea keeping Basins ISCOM is succeeded in development New Pioneer Revolutionary Concept of ultra deep-water (up to 6 km) Oil / Gas Production & Transport System DOPT. The Unique Innovative Conceptual Design of DOPT System is ready for License Marketing together with Strategic Partner to numerous potential Customers in the World.
Yearly World Market for Deepwater Production System is approx. 60 Billion $ US. More than 100 Billion $ US will be spent on Deepwater Projects within the next 5 years
Use existing Deepwater Oil / Gas Production Systems are limited by some following Technical-Economical Problems:
Convential Systems can operate only in Continental shelf of Ocean Area with depth up to 1,8 km only (existing deep-water World Oil Production record in Brazil Basin by Petrobras Company).This Ocean depth is seized only 5% of Ocean Area.
Because Oil / Gas reserves in such accessible areas are depleted,production have moved into deeper more hostile & challenging environments Areas in Gulf of Mexico, Brazil Basin,Alaska & Arctic Region,West of Shotland Islands,etc with depth up to 6km, which have in their depth enormous volumes of Hydrocarbon Resources (see Hart's E & P Journal of Global Exploration & Production News ,February 2002).
A/m such Areas are seized ~95% of World Ocean Area, partly explored,but cannot now exploited because absence in World Oil / Gas Production Equipment for such Ocean depth.
Existing Offshore Oil /Gas Production Systems are requiring :
- enormous(Billions Dollars)initial Capital investment owing to very expensive
Equipment as Fixed Platforms,Compliant Towers,TLP, ,FPSO Production Floaters.
- Complicated long distance, expensive seabed installed special submarine pipelines
with danger possibility it collapse from high external pressure of deep water;
- Need by existing Systems complicated and expensive Oil/ Gas Storage Units ;Mooring
Chains,Risers,Buoys,etc;
- Large Consumption Energy;
- Possibility of Environmental catastrophe hazards from storm- waves,sea currents,fire,etc
- Need special expensive submarines for maintenance equipment & pipes in deep water
- Consequently from all above mentioned features of existing processes of production
Oil & Gases it Production & transport cost is very high,for example7-13 US$ for barrel of Oil.
New Revolutionary Concept of DOPT System is integrated Industrial Package ,
which offer Production Oil or Gases from bed of Ocean (depth up to 6km) &
transport it to to coast Terminals - Reservours of Oil or Gases.
DOPT's Special Features are combination industrial package of Unique Innovative
Design Concepts of Production & Transport Processes,Equipment Design,
Advanced Materials,etc
DOPT is Innovative Conceptual Design of unmanned ,free suspended Robotic System,
working only in automatic regime;
DOPT consist from some relatively not-expensive traditional submersible wells,installed on
any relief roof of Ocean. The System is Unique,competitive with all Systems currently
available in the World.
Has Innovative ,safe, environment clean process & can be installed & transfer from one
to another Ocean Oil / Gas Fields relatively simple, quickly & at low price.
Can be adapted on any depth & locations of the World Ocean.
Dispense with any peculiarity to existing convential Systems of various types (FPSO,FPS,
TLP,Spares,Floaters) expensive (Billion Dollars) Equipment as Fixed or Floating Production
Platforms,Shuttle Tankers for transport Oil or Gas to Coast's StorageTerminals, Mooring
Chains,Risers,Buoys,etc; long distance seabed installed submarine pipelines ;Floating Oil /
Gas Storage Units , etc
Not depend from from outward Energy Supplying and even can produce the energy itself
"from nowhere" in process of production of Oil or Gas.
System can be assembled in Industrial conditions of Shipyard .
Conveyed to reconnaissance & prospective Oil or Gas Fields by means of convential Ships.
Installed in Oil or Gas Fields in a few Hours without help of divers or submarine robots,
mooring chains & bases.
The System is independent of various relief of seabed ground,heavy sea conditions,
ship traffic,storm waves,sea currents.
The System can be relatively simple transferred from one Oil or Gas to other practically
without losses of its bodies quickly and at low price.
The System works only in automatic regime with minimal Staff for maintenance.
The safety & environment may be provided more reliable thereby rise of Systems Components
to sea surface for Repairing
Oil Production Cost produced by DOPT ~ 2-3 US $ per barrel ,comparing to 7-13US $
per barrel by convential Production Platforms (FPU) & Floater Vessels (FPSO).
Reduction Capital Investment for production Oil ,for example, by Shell's Float Production
System from ~1,2 Billion US $ to ~0,62 Billion US $ by DOPT.
Reduction Running Expenses by ~50% comparative with Shell Systems.
Name of System | One of Existing production System | Subsea production System(DOPT) |
Parameters | ||
Daily Oil Production,Barrels | 40 000 | 40 000 |
Annually Oil & Gas Production,Mt | 5.6 | 5.6 |
Water depth location,m | 869 | 6000 |
Distance from bottom to shore Terminal,km | 100 | 100 |
Number of production wells | 24 | 24 |
Capital Investment,US $Bn | 1.2 | ~0.62 |
Capital Investment for local pipelines US$Bn for main pipelines | 0.66 0.35 |
0.35 |
Annual Running Cost,US$Bn | 0.13 | 0.07 |
Production Cost , US$Bn/Barrel | 3.5 | ~1.7 |