nm waids - New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute

NM
NM WAIDS
WAIDS
Produced Water Mapping and
Tools for New Mexico Oil and Gas
Producers
Contact info:
Martha Cather
505.835.5685
email: [email protected]
Robert Lee
505.835.5408
email: [email protected]
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Team Members
Professional staff
Graduate Students
• Martha Cather – Principal
Investigator
• Abe Gundiler – Co-PI,
corrosion engineer
• Andy Sung – Co-PI, fuzzy
logic
• Jenny Ma – Database
manager
• Robert Lee – Project
Manager
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Anthonius Sulaiman
Naomi Davidson
Mingzhen Wei
Dennis Xu
Ajeet Peraty
Nilay Engin
Undergraduates
• Patrick Chavez
• Kevin Madalena
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Background
• Tasks
• Products
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Background
• Work with NMOGA Chlorides Group –
Requests include:
– Maps of chloride content of groundwater
– Maps of depth to groundwater
• Work with “Water Dog” project
– Group wanted a way to collect and map water
quality information for produced water
• Requests for a GIS that would show both water
information and oil and gas information
• Producer requests for help with corrosion
issues
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
1. Database Construction
Why a produced water database?
Produced water costs money! Collecting
data can help producers:
• Plan the design of water handling and
treatment systems
• Evaluate the limits of alternative disposal
and other use options
• Evaluate the need for anti-scaling
additives
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
1. Database Construction
• Produced Water Quality Database
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Created
Created from
from paper
paper and
and electronic
electronic data
data
Data
Data includes
includes info
info on
on location,
location, general
general properties,
properties, cations,
cations, anions
anions
• Update Groundwater Database with best available data
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Water
Water well
well locations
locations updated
updated from
from NM
NM State
State Engineer’s
Engineer’s Office
Office
Surface
Surface and
and groundwater
groundwater data
data from
from USGS
USGS and
and EPA
EPA
• Create Cultural and Infrastructure Databases
–– Obtain
Obtain cultural
cultural data
data from
from counties
counties where
where available,
available, otherwise
otherwise go
go to
to
USGS
USGS or
or State
State sources
sources
–– Obtain
Obtain infrastructure
infrastructure (pipeline)
(pipeline) data
data from
from public
public and
and OCD
OCD sources
sources
(this
(this may
may be
be aa problem
problem because
because of
of homeland
homeland security
security issues)
issues)
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Produced Water Database
•Database has about ~8000 samples statewide that have both a
location and chemistry data.
•Currently have about 4200 samples for southeast New Mexico
that have both location and some kind of water chemistry data
Most data is in Lea County.
•Initial pilot project was for Eddy and Lea counties, but database
has data for entire state. We have ~3500 samples in the San Juan
basin.
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Produced Water Database
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Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Web Entry System
• Produced water
samples can be
entered via the
web
• Samples can be
searched via the
web
• Plan is for
graphical searches
and dynamic
maps with GIS
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
OCR Data Entry
• Much of our data donated by companies but
is on paper forms in many different formats.
• Developed a workflow for scanning and
converting the forms into text.
• Data is then entered into the database.
• Improves speed and accuracy.
• Have currently entered about 3000 forms
this way.
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
OCR Data Entry
Data
Data forms
forms come
come in
in many
many formats,
formats,
from
from many
many companies.
companies.
Data
Data forms
forms may
may be
be typed,
typed, handwritten,
handwritten,
or
or aa combination.
combination.
Copies
Copies may
may be
be blurry,
blurry, skewed,
skewed, or
or
noisy.
noisy.
Even
Even with
with these
these problems,
problems, forms
forms take
take
from
from 1-5
1-5 minutes
minutes to
to enter,
enter, providing
providing
>50%
>50% time
time savings
savings and
and greater
greater
accuracy,
accuracy, plus
plus original
original image
image is
is now
now
preserved
preserved as
as aa reference.
reference.
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Groundwater Database
•Data from a preliminary dataset provided by Roswell SEO
•Database contains about 30,000 samples for southeast New
Mexico (project pilot area). Only chemistry data is chloride
and TDS. Data still needs some QC.
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
2. Geographic Information System (GIS)
• Create Map Layers from Task 1 data
• Create a Project-specific interface,
w/help files
• Beta-test web site
• Place on external-visible web server
• Create CD for non-networked
applications
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Water GIS
Our GIS will eventually
have data about both
ground water and produced
water quality.
Information could also
include volumes of water
by formation, location of
handling facilities, SWD
wells, injection wells, etc.,
depending on availability of
the data.
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Water GIS
We can examine
overall trends in
chloride content (or
other component,
should there be
sufficient data)
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Water GIS
San Andres and Grayburg
We can examine
variability based on
formation. May be
useful for locating
problem areas.
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
3. Fuzzy Risk Analysis Tool
• Create FRAT
• Present to NMOGA Chlorides Group
and NMOCD for evaluation
• Incorporate suggested changes, add
additional parameters from API
modeling study
• Beta-test
• Release on web site as part of the GIS
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
4. Risk Analysis Tool
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
4. Corrosion and Scale Management
Toolkit
• Collect corrosion information & current
management practices from operators
• Create a qualitative Corrosivity Index for
various producing formations and regions
• Assemble online reference book
• Create scale prediction tools
• Incorporate all information into the web site
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Corrosion Toolkit – Scale Calculation
With special thanks to Yates Petroleum Corp for their generous help.
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Deliverables
• Searchable databases of produced and
groundwater data
• Fuzzy risk assessment tool
• Corrosion toolkit
• Online Geographic Information System
• WAIDS Website – integration of all deliverables
• We need, and would greatly appreciate
contributions of produced water data from more
operators – contact Martha
Petroleum Recovery Research Center, A Division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology