Offshore Gas Compression Energy usage

[kjm20]

I have been asked to carry out an energy assessment of an offshore platform in the southern north sea.

Although I have looked everywhere I can’t seem to find the industry standard for a compression plant of the following value; the amount of energy used in transporting and processing the reservoir fluids over the energy value of the exported product (%).

Can anyone point me in the right direction to finding this answer or happen to know it off the top of their heads??

Thank you for you help!

 

[sms]

That is probably because until recently the operators didn't care much about energy usage... just as long as there was gas/oil flowing through the pipeline...

I suspect that the energy value of the transported product is vastly greater than the energy usage in transporting and processing, so the ratio may not be very meaningful..

But I might be suprised, I certainly have been before...



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[dcasto]

We use 1.5% per stage. A stage being 3 ratios.

 

[JamesDUK]

I think BP use 2% as their base point for new developments. Bound to be something about it on their website.
It's a massive amount of energy when you think about it!