Why can't oil well production be adjusted? Wouldn't it be nice to cover it
I think so. There was an explanation that was easy to understand, so I added
It is called “enhanced collection.” In conventional oil fields, immediately after production starts, the oil field itself has pressure, so it automatically sprays, but the pressure drops after a while. Therefore, another hole is dug in a place away from the production well, and gas such as seawater or CO2 is pressurized from there to maintain pressure inside the oil well and increase oil production. Eventually, water began to be produced along with petroleum from production wells, and where the ratio of petroleum dropped and the cost to separate it from water became high, it was decided to stop production from an economic point of view.
Thus, in the development of conventional oil fields, production is attempted based on an optimized production plan based on the idea of recovering as much underground reserves as possible throughout the life of the oil field. Therefore, it is technically possible to narrow down production volume by tightening valves or weakening EOR in the middle of production, but if you do such a thing, the equipment operation rate drops and becomes a cost burden, and if you overdo it, “damage” (when the pressure drops, gas dissolved from the oil is generated like bubbles and oil mobility decreases, etc.), and future recovery rates may decrease, so I don't want to do it as much as possible. This point of view is different from power generation equipment where the equipment operation rate simply drops slightly even if production volume drops instantaneously.
Thus, in the development of conventional oil fields, production is attempted based on an optimized production plan based on the idea of recovering as much underground reserves as possible throughout the life of the oil field. Therefore, it is technically possible to narrow down production volume by tightening valves or weakening EOR in the middle of production, but if you do such a thing, the equipment operation rate drops and becomes a cost burden, and if you overdo it, “damage” (when the pressure drops, gas dissolved from the oil is generated like bubbles and oil mobility decreases, etc.), and future recovery rates may decrease, so I don't want to do it as much as possible. This point of view is different from power generation equipment where the equipment operation rate simply drops slightly even if production volume drops instantaneously.
It is technically possible, but the disadvantages are huge in the future.
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