Development concept for Arctic offshore gas condensate field

Abstract

This paper compares different variants for development of gas-condensate fields in harsh Arctic environments. These variants were based on a case study (development of Arctic offshore gas condensate field) presented at RAO/CIS Offshore 2021 conference during a panel discussion of young scientists. The paper discusses and analyses main solutions in the suggested concepts, highlighting their common points and identifying their advantages and drawbacks. As a result, the authors suggest a generic development concept for an imaginary gas condensate field that might be the most promising from the technical standpoint and also in terms of cost efficiency. This concept could be regarded as a baseline solution for development tasks of real Arctic fields.

Keywords

• arctic offshore
• gas fields
• concept development
• fixed marine platform
• underwater production system
• lng