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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Non peer reviewed)

Advantages of lean gas for an upstream gas-gathering system*

D. Hazle
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Shell Development Australia.

The APPEA Journal 51(2) 735-735 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ10115
Published: 2011

Abstract

Offshore lean gas developments are often perceived as being inferior to a wet gas development. In this case study, the advantages of lean gas are shown to be an enabler, making a project viable in an area where many small lean gas accumulations combine to produce a viable development. Through beneficial flow assurance, cheaper and simpler facilities, larger drainage radii and technology applications such as DEH, viability of a development can be demonstrated in an area where smaller discoveries are currently perceived as being stranded.

Dave graduated from Cambridge University with an MEng (electrical engineering). He has more than 10 years of engineering experience in the oil and gas industry, having worked in operations and field developments onshore and offshore in the North Sea and Australian markets.