Open AccessEcological and economic justification of the utilization of associated petroleum gas at small oil fields of Russia
Author(s) -
А. В. Стриженок,
Denis S. Korelskiy
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1384/1/012053
Subject(s) - payback period , petroleum , environmental science , liquefied petroleum gas , fossil fuel , combustion , power station , raw material , energy source , waste management , natural resource economics , environmental protection , production (economics) , engineering , economics , ecology , geology , chemistry , electrical engineering , organic chemistry , biology , macroeconomics , paleontology
One of the main environmental problems in oil production in the world today is the utilization of associated petroleum gas (APG) by combustion it in flares. At the same time, this process has enormous economic damage, since APG is a potential raw material that can be used to produce marketable products, power or heat energy. More than 30 billion cubic meters of APG are combusted in flares annually only in Russia, which is about 20% of the total amount of combusted APG in the world. It should be noted that combustion of 1 billion cubic meters of APG is equivalent to the loss of marketable products worth more than 300 million dollars. In the present article, the authors carried out a selection of the optimal method for utilization of APG at small fields in Russia and its environmental and economic justification. The method of power generation directly at the field using gas turbine power station was adopted as the most cost-effective method. The implementation of such a project at the field reduces emissions of pollutants hundreds of times, and payback period does not exceed 2.5 years.