Offshore Production
A whole range of different structures is used offshore, depending on size and water depth. In the last few years, we have seen pure sea bottom installations with multiphase piping…
Onshore Production
Onshore production is economically viable from a few dozen barrels of oil a day and upward. Oil and gas is produced from several million wells worldwide. In particular, a gas…
Production
This illustration gives an overview of typical oil and gas production facilities: Although there is a wide range of sizes and layouts, most production facilities have many of the same…
Exploration
In the past, surface features such as tar seeps or gas pockmarks provided initial clues to the location of shallow hydrocarbon deposits. Today, a series of surveys, starting with broad…
LPG vs Petrol Savings Calculator
One of the biggest advantages of LPG vs petrol cars and vehicles is the savings realised on fuel costs. Autogas is the safe, inexpensive way to run your car, especially as the…
How to Beat the Petrol Price Cycle
Don’t you just hate having to fill up your tank in a week when the petrol and diesel prices are high? Think how much you could save each year if…
LPG Vehicle Safety
· There are millions of LPG cars being successfully used around the world. · LPG has been used safely in Australian vehicles for many decades. Safety Features Australian LPG fuel systems have…
Autogas -LPG Fuel for Gas Cars
. The LPG fuel used in LPG powered cars is quite often called “Autogas” · It is typically either pure propane or a propane/butane blend. The…
Recovery Of Oil And Gas
Primary recovery: natural drive and artificial lift Petroleum reservoirs usually start with a formation pressure high enough to force crude oil into the well and sometimes to the surface through the tubing. However, since production…
The Oil Well
Drilling Cable tooling Early oil wells were drilled with impact-type tools in a method called cable-tool drilling. A weighted chisel-shaped bit was suspended from a cable to a lever at the surface, where an up-and-down motion of the…
