SOMOIL Onshore Processing

Facilities Debottlenecking
Field Survey

Dr. Idoko Jacob Ochuma

February 2019

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Soyo Processing Facilities Debottlenecking Field Survey
• Design/installed capacity – at least 20,000 BOPD

• SOW: to identify current bottlenecks, in order to optimize oil production

• Current overall water cut 80-85%, high GOR, high paraffin and emulsion.

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• Current total oil production from Somoil’s onshore (FS/FST) 6,000 BOPD

• For 20,000 BOPD (High Case) by 2023, with water cut of 80-85%, Somoil’s existing facilities in Soyo must
be prepared to separate, handle, treat and dispose about 80,000 BWPD or more

Production (BOPD) 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Low Case 6000 6500 9200 11000 11500

Mid Case 7500 8000 10000 13000 17500

High Case 7500 9000 14000 17000 20000

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Debottlenecking Field Survey - OneSurface Scope of Work
• OneSurface SOW covers topside processing consisting:

• Oil treatment train

• Gas treatment train
• Produced water treatment train
• Seawater treatment train (if offshore)

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• Solids (sand) management systems

• Increasing oil output from oil wells is covered by other Schlumberger segments:
• Well Services
• Artificial Lift Solutions
• Schlumberger Production
• Surface Systems
• Valves and Measurement

• Pipelines and other facilities management: ADIL

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Overview of Soyo Processing Facilities

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Quinguila – Design/Installed Capacity

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Identified Bottlenecks and Recommendations - Quinguila

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Operational NATCO Oil Treater Abandoned NATCO Oil Treater

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Identified Bottlenecks & Recommendations - Quinguila
Short Term Action Long Term Action
Repair leaking 6” line to Quinguila Produced Water Debottlenecking
Re-install abandoned NATCO oil treater V-710 Produced Water Treatment Plant
Put in service V-1000 Gas Scrubber Valves maintenance arrangement

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Full spare parts for 2 Oil Treaters Instrumentation and control system
Repair leaking Booster Pump P-6100 DCS for process performance monitoring
Clean Oil Treaters and Storage Tanks
Chemical Injection – Bottle Test
Chemicals: re-calibrate injection pumps
Repair valves – maintenance, servicing

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Identified Bottlenecks – Cabeça de Cobra
• NATCO Gas Scrubber V-1000 – possible bottleneck due to high GOR of fluids from the wells/fields

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Identified Bottlenecks - Cabeça de Cobra
Short Term Action Long Term Action
Install FWKO Vessel – for oil and water Produced Water (PW) treatment package - to
separation Treat PW for disposal/injection wells
Adequate fire protection/detection Chemical injection pumps calibration

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Put in service NATCO Gas Scrubber V-1000 Improved valves maintenance
Chemical injection – bottle testing
• Anti paraffin
• Corrosion inhibitor
• Biocide
Re-calibrate chemical injection pumps
Repair/service leaking valves and pumps

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Pangala – Design/Installed Capacity

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Identified Bottlenecks – Pangala
Compressor Station

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Identified Bottlenecks – Pangala

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Electrostatic Oil Treater – Full Spare Parts Required Out of service

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Identified Bottlenecks – Pangala
• PERFORMAX V-1500
• For purifying combined water from oil treater and FWKO
• Internals no longer available
• Complete replacement highly recommended or replace with deoiling hydrocyclone + Depurator
Water treatment before sending to tank T-900 located in Quinfukena

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• Flow metering required at the inlet or outlet

• 2 Chemicals injected at the outlet of PERFORMAX – require bottle testing and injection calibration
• Antibacterial
• Anti corrosion
• Demulsifier injected upstream of electrostatic oil treater – require bottle testing and injection calibration

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Identified Bottlenecks – Pangala
• PERFORMAX V-1500
• For purifying combined water from oil treater and FWKO – 60,000 BWPD Capacity

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Identified Bottlenecks & Recommendations - Pangala
Short Term Action Long Term Action
Flash Skimmer V-110 – put back in service Internal inspection and improved maintenance

NATCO Glycol contactor scrubber – put back in service Instrumentation and control – level, flow control

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1 out of 3 compressors out of service DCS – improved process performance monitoring
NATCO contactor scrubber V-500 out of service Fresh water storage tanks T-3100, T-3200 – fresh water
from wells needs a small treatment package to
minimize damage to the injection wells
NATCO Oil Treater V-1400 to be put back in service
Full spare parts for all NATCO Oil Treaters
Replace/refurbish PERFORMAX V-1500 water purifier

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Identified Bottlenecks – Quinfuquena Flow Station/ Tank Farm

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Identified Bottlenecks – Quinfuquena Flow Station/ Tank Farm
Short Term Action Long Term Action

Replace 3 Test Separators and 1 Gas Scrubber Instrumentation and control – level and flow control
supplied by NATCO – obsolete and out of service instruments required

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Tank T-900 will need additional capacity Install additional ‘T-900’

Large rectangular water reservoir near T-900 Install Produced Water Treatment Plant

Target oil in water (OIW) < 30 ppm

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Identified Bottlenecks – Sereia Gas Plant
• Supplied by Sereia II and QQ19 Gas wells
• NATCO Package – revamp or replacement required to treat wet gas from wells before sending to gas lift

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Identified Bottlenecks – Sereia Gas Plant
Short Term Action Long Term Action

NATCO – supplied gas plant Replace or revamp gas plant

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Out of service; shutdown during the war Improved maintenance service arrangement

Leaks, corroded and unsafe Spare parts

Detailed inspection by NATCO (OneSurface) Improve Instrumentation and control

Replace/revamp – to treat wet gases from gas wells, for

gas lift wells

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Identified Bottlenecks – NZOMBO SW Flow Station
• NATCO-supplied surge tank out of service
• Only the test separator currently operational
• Fluids to Pangala via 6 km pipeline – booster pump required
• Other bottlenecks:
Flow station needs a production separator

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• Needs a FWKO
• Test separator and surge tank both supplied by NATCO
• Improved maintenance and service required for reliability

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Identified Bottlenecks – Valves & Measurement

• Production manifold
• In-field flow lines
• Pipeline connection between facilities
Maintenance and service of valves and measurement systems

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• CAMERON V&M – valves services, maintenance, automation

• CAMERON V&M – OEM and source of more than 20 brands

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Produced Water Debottlenecking
• Mature oil fields with high water cut - ability to sustain oil production depends on managing an increasing
volume of produced water

• In-field transfer pipelines and fluid-processing equipment are designed for a fixed maximum liquid rate

• Increased water cut from aging wells constrains (bottleneck) flow within these lines and the separation

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systems, which in turn reduces oil production

• Compact, light weight, simple technology to process the increased water fraction near the source and
debottlenecking the flow lines and existing equipment is a desirable solution

• Removal of the water bottleneck unlocks production potential from mature or marginal fields and can
increase production by >50%

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Produced Water Debottlenecking – Compact Flotation Unit

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Bulk Oil Removal Equipment – Skimmers (Gravity Separators)

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Free Oil Removal Technologies – Wemco Pacesetter

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Cross Flow Separator – NATCO Cross-Flow Scrubbers Plate Coalescers – Wemco Pacesetter

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Free Oil Removal Equipment – Deoiling Hydrocyclone

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Vortoil Deoiling Hydrocyclone

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Dispersed Oil Removal: Induced Gas Flotation (IGF)
Mechanical IGF – Wemco Depurator
• Box (atmospheric) and Cylindrical (pressurized)

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Wemco ® Dual Cell Depurator®

• Dual Cell design for motion sensitive applications

• Two to Five Cell design for fixed application

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Dispersed Oil Removal – Compact Flotation Unit (CFU)

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Polishing Filtration - Polishing Filtration Equipment
• Mesh or Filter Coalescers
Not suitable for high solids content
Cartridge properties dependent on pressure differential vs.
flowrate
Depth-type filters or Surface filters

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• Media Filters
Internals to maximize liquid distribution
Backwash Offline with Flow from bottom to top
Very efficient
• Nutshell Media Filters
Typically use walnut & pecan shells
No Chemicals

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Polishing Filtration - Cartridge Filters/Filter Coalescers

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Polishing Filtration - Hydromation® Nut Shell Filters

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Gas Plant: Gas Dehydration and Treatment Products
• Dehydration
o Acid Gas Dehydration Systems
o Glycol Dehydration Systems
o MEG Reclamation & Recovery Units
o NATCO® BTEX® Buster

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o NATCO® DESI-DRI® Desiccant Dehydration
o NATCO® SHV™ Flare Combustor
o Solid Adsorbent Systems
o Glycol Dehydration Units
o Wellhead Dehydration
o Gathering Locations
o Storage Fields
o Offshore (fixed platform and floating Production)

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Thank you!

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