Model for economical analysis of oil and gas deepwater production concepts : Comparisons of life cycle cost of subsea production systems vs. floating structures with dry wellheads.
Master thesis
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The scope of the work was to create a model that will allow the comparison of Life Cycle
Costs (LCC) for subsea production systems and floating structures with dry wellheads for the
Mexican territorial waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
To give validity to the model, an empirical comparison on the resulting recovery factor based
on data of the US Gulf of Mexico was included. This comparison is intended to answer ¿Is
there a significant difference in the recovery factor when is used the dry tree vs. the wet tree
concept solutions?
The model proposed integrates a number of already published models done by academics, the
industry and governments. Also, it was found that the activity in deep water offshore Mexico
is having place in a region with an evident lack of preexisting infrastructure. Hence it is
proposed in the model that new offshore structures shall have an added value for comparison
purposes
Two hypothetical projects (three different concepts for each project) of field development,
based in public information released by PEMEX, are assessed.
Conclusions and recommendations are made to increase the possibilities of feasible future
field development and efficient depletion of the hydrocarbons located in Mexican deepwater.
Beskrivelse
Master's thesis in Offshore technology