EUREKA PROJECT > 3275 EUROGIA
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NORWAY
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FRANCE
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FRANCE
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THE NETHERLANDS
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THE NETHERLANDS
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FRANCE
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FRANCE
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NORWAY
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FRANCE
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EUREKA OIL & GAS INDUSTRY INITIATIVE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND A SECURE ENERGY SUPPLY IN A CLEANER/SAFER FUTURE
WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES NEEDED FOR A MORE EFFICIENT EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES, WHILE ENSURING A RADICAL ENERGY PROCESS OF DECARBONISATION THROUGH CAPTURE AND STORAGE OF CO2, MIGRATION TO NATURAL GAS AND THEN TO HYDROGEN.
Status > FINISHED - 28-Oct-2009 Technological Area Market Area Start Date > 30-Jun-2004 Duration > 48 Months Participating countries > NORWAY, THE NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, SPAIN, BELGIUM | Main contactEUROGIA OFFICE MR. GUY GOYEAU > OPERATIONS MANAGER Organisation type > Large company |
Project Description
EUROGIA's main purpose is to initiate technological developments fundamental to ensuring a better management of fossil fuels, in order to facilitate a rapid migration towards a hydrogen economy. This can be achieved in line with the two following objectives: * Reserves management optimisation during the phases of characterisation and exploitation. The expected growth in energy demand and the necessity for securing energy supply to all users require an increase in reserves. Current known reserves will be insufficient to satisfy the world population needs a few decades from now when alternative energy sources may well become sustainable and perennial. Adding new reserves is therefore an essential part of the energy strategy. * Decarbonisation of the fossil energy chain during exploration, production, conversion and use. An essential part of exploration is the migration towards a wider use of natural gas, which allows for a substantial CO2 reduction (50%) during the conversion into secondary energy. Characterisation and economic exploitation of natural gas is the second key component of the strategy. The long-term objective is the migration towards a hydrogen economy, but despite hydrogen production technologies based on nuclear and renewable energy sources becoming marketable and socially acceptable, hydrogen has to be produced from fossil fuels. EUROGIA's Position: EUROGIA aims to facilitate the re-organisation of the service and supply sector in order to face emerging challenges and to seize the historical opportunity represented by the changing business models vis-a-vis traditional clients. Major oil and gas operators, through recent mergers and acquisitions, have reinforced their global dimension within a global market. Operators look for the best technological solutions where available with a view to minimising their operational costs. Contractors are becoming more and more exposed to extremely fierce competition from all over the world in a risky market while their ability to anticipate business cycles has not changed. The increased outsourcing trend of activities by operators does require the service sector to provide services and new technologies that are not only developed to meet technical and commercial objectives, but also comply with environmental, safety and ethical requirements. EUROGIA's strategic objectives define the mission of EUROGIA: EUROGIA wants to be instrumental for the European industry to initiate projects that contribute to sustainable development through: * Economic growth: a better position vis-a-vis non-European competition and a more secure energy supply for Europe. * Social quality: sustained employment growth, particularly for highly qualified jobs, and increased attraction for scientific studies. This is to increase our visibility in the scientific world. * Environmental protection: development of better technologies to minimise the impact of industrial activities on the environment, to reduce greenhouse gases, to accelerate the migration towards the hydrogen economy, and to contribute to providing cost effective solutions in the renewable energy sources sector. EUROGIA, a new tool in the ERA that complements existing R & D programmes: EUROGIA will be complementary to existing European and national programmes and will offer the route to fast market growth through European co-operation: * EUROGIA and FP6 (6th Framework Programme): Within the 8 priorities addressed by FP6, very few overlap with EUROGIA White Book Work Areas. Conjugating both programmes will result in validating the FP concepts with solutions developed locally under the EUROGIA initiative. * EUROGIA and the other EUREKA clusters: Project proposals will be evaluated in strong collaboration with the other cluster offices. * EUROGIA and National Programmes: The National Programmes are there to strengthen and create synergies between local industries and with local universities to reinforce the position of an industry sector. The trans-national dimension offered by EUREKA projects will provide them with the opportunity to cross-fertilize with new partners in a worldwide market perspective. As an overall common goal, EUROGIA is ambitious and is committed to attracting more young people towards learning science and studying in Technical Universities. As such EUROGIA will aim to be an instrument that contributes to achieve the objective of 3% of European investment in R & D before 2010. The partners in this EUREKA application are applying for EUREKA status for the EUROGIA programme as described in the EUROGIA White Book. This Book explains the rationale and strategy, the industrial core competence activities and the simple structure that will run EUROGIA. This programme is open to participation from other partners in EUREKA countries having the required expertise, experience and background information to undertake the work in a specific cooperative project. Keywords: energy, enhanced oil recovery, marine technologies, sustainable development, greenhouse gases management, hydrogen, enabling technologies, manufacturing, equipment.
Technological Development Envisaged
In close collaboration with universities and research institutes, EUROGIA will develop the technologies needed for a more efficient exploitation of mature fields, deep and ultra-deep offshore reservoirs and non-conventional resources, while at the same time ensuring a radical decarbonisation of the energy process through the capture and storage of CO2, migration to natural gas and further to hydrogen, which is the ultimate goal of the E.U. energy strategy. Technology Challenges: The aim of the EUROGIA Initiative is to provide clean, safe and economical solutions to achieve: - Zero-flaring - Several hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 captured and stored each year - At least double the recovery rate of existing fields (from 35% to 70% or more) - A successful migration to a hydrogen economy whilst aggressively promoting and contributing to the use of cleaner and safer energy sources, including renewable. To enable safe, cost effective and environmentally acceptable solutions in the 3 areas identified in the EUROGIA White Book as priority domains - mature fields, deep and ultra-deep offshore, natural gas - technologies are needed in the following areas: 1. Continued reduction in the environmental impact of oil and gas exploration and production towards a harmful discharge to sea of zero and a 30% reduction of emissions to air. 2. Cost effective drilling and exploration methods to accelerate development of new oil and gas field developments. 3. Stimulated recovery and cost effective operations and maintenance, including real-time reservoir management and remote operation in order to maximize the value of existing fields in production and enable tie-ins of satellites and marginal fields. 4. Sub-sea and down-hole process systems, combined with long-range well stream transport to enable frontier and deep-water developments. 5. Deepwater floating production systems inclusive of gas conversion capability for areas without any existing infrastructure or export route for the oil and gas. It will also be necessary to look at the characterisation and development of non-conventional resources to ensure adequate energy supplies. This will include: 1. Heavy oils and tar sands, which account for an estimated 650 Gt and which will require new technological solutions within acceptable price and environmental constraints. 2. Coalmine methane and coal bed methane could be brought into the world energy mix with the double advantage of both an increase in energy supply and a reduction in emissions and environmental risks. 3. There is an estimated 10,000 Gt of gas hydrates. Ways will have to be found to harvest the widely available hydrates from substantial depths to convert safely and environmentally to methane through gasification and to integrate into the gas chain for distribution. Parallel to this, environmental objectives need to be attained through a gradual shift towards a fully integrated hydrogen economy. The key challenges will be found in the following areas: 1. Enabling migration to natural gas, where enabling technologies for efficient power generation will be important, as well as technology in wider use in transport by way of CNG (Compressed Natural Gas), LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) and LNG (Liquid Natural Gas), and technology for the use of natural gas in a wide range of industrial applications. 2. CO2 capture, use and storage. Although fuel switching from coal, oil and orimulsion to natural gas will give significant environmental benefits, future increased use of hydrocarbons must be coupled with CO2 management. In connection with offshore production of natural gas, the capture of CO2 and storage in saline aquifers have been demonstrated on the Sleipner field in NORWAY. In the U.S., CO2 has been captured, transported and used for EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) in small onshore wells. Much work does however remain before CO2 can be effectively captured, conditioned and used or stored. Bringing the cost down should be further developed. 3. Migration to hydrogen which in a balanced and robust energy portfolio offers the best hopes for big cuts in emissions, provided technologies for large scale hydrogen production are developed. New, renewable energies such as wind, wave, biomass, solar, etc. will not enable large-scale hydrogen production and use on their own. Conversion of natural gas with CO2 management offers the most likely transition, a path that will help align the energy industry with E.U. environmental objectives. Technologies will have to be developed and qualified with respect to production, transport and storage, as well as in connection with systems built around cost effective fuel cells. It should be noted that all of the technologies developed to enable storage, distribution and use of hydrogen will be extremely beneficial to the deployment of renewable energies, mitigating the major drawbacks of geographic distribution and intermittent operation. The strategic objective of EUROGIA will be to achieve excellence in these industrial core competencies, each of which is based on a combination of technical knowledge, application experience and organisational power. EUROGIA will be advanced and the individual projects will have a substantial element of risk, but the programme will provide both the critical mass and the right level of co-operation to be successful. This will provide the basis for the European Service & Supply industry to quickly and flexibly develop innovative, performing, safe and clean technologies to be exported worldwide in a highly strategic and competitive sector.
Main contactIZAR CONSTRUCCIONES NAVALES S.A. MR. JOSE CARLOS GONZALEZ SAMA > DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
Engineering and R & D in shipbuilding, propulsion and offshore units.
Expertise
Shipbuilding and offshore EPC contractor.
Main contactWESTERNGECO A.S. DR. SARAH RYAN > TECHNOLOGY CENTRE MANAGER Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
Seismic survey, analysis operations, land and marine seismic products and services, as well as multiclient services (including extensive libraries of survey data and database analysis), 3-D, 4-D, and multicomponent surveys.
Expertise
Seismic acquisition and processing, engineering and manufacturing seismic acquisition systems.
Main contactTECHNIP DR. PHILIPPE HOFFMANN > TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND I.P. MANAGER Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
EUROGIA board member.
Expertise
Oil & Gas Products & Services including: - pipelines, umbilicals, ROV, offshore construction and installation, offshore facilities, - onshore production, refining and petrochemicals.
Main contactALSTOM MARINE CHANTIERS DE L'ATLANTIQUE MR. YVON TALLEC > COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
EUROGIA's member.
Expertise
Shipbuilding.
Main contactEUROGIA OFFICE MR. GUY GOYEAU > OPERATIONS MANAGER Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
EUROGIA Secretariat Office: - Contact point. - Operations manager.
Expertise
Secretariat Office: Contact point, Operations Manager of EUROGIA.
Main contactIHC GUSTO ENGINEERING B.V. MR. PETER VAN BREEMEN > ASSISTANT CONTROLLER Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
EUROGIA Board Member.
Expertise
The organisation has two core business areas. The first is the development of complete tailor-made designs for special vessels such as dynamically positioned (DP) drilling and pipe-lay / installation vessels, heavy-duty offshore cranes and self-elevating platforms, as well as floating production, storage and offloading units. The designs include all calculations, drawings and specifications necessary to obtain class approval. The second core business area is the design and delivery of specialised equipment and systems such as jacking systems, offshore cranes, pipe-lay systems, etc. The company has a well-established reputation in the offshore market, based on a significant number of units in operation.
Main contactFUGRO N.V.
DRS. ING. ARIS LUBBES > DIVISION TECHNICAL MANAGER Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
EUROGIA Vice-President, Chairman of Technical Committee.
Expertise
Offshore Survey services including: - DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System) positioning services, - ROV (Remote Operating Vehicle) construction support, - Geosciences, - hydrography, - seismic, - geophysics, - data management, - software development, - oceanography, - mapping and charting.
Main contactOFFICE OF FEDERAL SCIENCE POLICY / POD WETENSCHAPSBELEID / SSP POLITIQUE SCIENTIFIQUE MR. ROBERT VERBRUGGEN > NATIONAL PROJECT COORDINATOR FOR BELGIUM Organisation type > Governm./Nat. Admin. |
Contribution to project
NUP
Expertise
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Main contactSAIPEM S.A. ENG. MICHEL LEMPIRE > DEPUTY MANAGER TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
EUROGIA members.
Expertise
Engineering Procurement Installation Construction Services to the oil & gas industry; with a particular focus on activities in remote areas, deep-water environments and gas-related projects.
Main contactSCHLUMBERGER SPS MR. GABRIEL MARQUETTE > DIRECTOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
EUROGIF Vice-President, Chairman of Technical Committee. EUROGIA President.
Expertise
Oil field services including: - seismics, - drilling, - measurements while drilling, - well logging, - testing and completion, - reservoir management, - geo-science data management.
Main contactDET NORSKE VERITAS A/S (DNV)
DR. STAALE SELMER-OLSEN > SENIOR PRINCIPAL ENGINEER Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
Member of EUROGIF Technical Committee. Coordination of Thematic Network 'TRENDS' (TNI).
Expertise
Classification, certification, verification, qualification of new technology, R & D, risk management, HSEQ services, risk based inspection and maintenance, safety management, technology development, etc.
Main contactBUREAU VERITAS S.A.
MR. PIERRE BESSE > R & D MANAGER Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
Risk Analyses, Safety Assessment, Concept Approval, Classification, Certification, QHSE.
Expertise
Risk engineering, classification and approval of offshore and ship structures type, QHSE, Inspection, Audit, Structural integrity.
Main contactCOMPAGNIE GENERALE DE GEOPHYSIQUE
MR. MICHEL MANIN > DIRECTOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
Bring Expertise in Seismic Technology and Geosciences.
Expertise
Seismic Technology and Geosciences.