Resources to Reserves 2013 Oil, Gas and Coal Technologies for the Energy Markets of the Future

The availability of oil and gas for future generations continues to provoke international debate. In 2005, the first edition of Resources to Reserves found that the known hydrocarbon resources were sufficient to sustain likely growth for the foreseeable future. Yet the book also predicted that devel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: International Energy Agency.
Autores Corporativos: International Energy Agency (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Content Provider (content provider)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Executive Summary
  • Chapter 1. Setting the scene
  • Global energy demand
  • Implications of a low-carbon scenario
  • Classifying resources and reserves
  • Resources and reserves
  • Recent trends
  • Recent developments in technology
  • Chapter 2. Raising recovery efficiency from oilfields
  • -Lifecycle of a petroleum reservoir
  • Developing new reserves: getting the most for the lowest cost
  • Applying technologies for IOR
  • Mature reserves: technologies for EOR
  • CO2-EOR for greenhouse gas mitigation: a future win-win situation?
  • Being smart with smart fields
  • Importance of future technology RD&D
  • Chapter 3. The growing importance of natural gas
  • Natural gas sources and lifecycle aspects
  • More natural gas developments
  • Key element: getting gas to markets
  • The LNG value chain
  • Going offshore: floating LNG systems
  • GTL: an alternative way to bring gas to market
  • Compressed natural gas for smaller accumulations
  • Sour gas and contaminated public resources
  • NGL: a key contributor to global oil production
  • Chapter 4. Trends and challenges of frontier oil and gas
  • -Main challenges of frontier oil and gas exploration
  • Potential of deepwater reserves
  • Developing deepwater reserves: applying new technology
  • Technologies for meeting the Arctic challenge
  • Protecting the Arctic environment
  • Future directions
  • Chapter 5. Making light of unconventional oil
  • -Heavy oil and oil-sands
  • Steam and hydrogen sources
  • The future of heavy oil and oil-sands
  • Kerogen oil
  • Light tight oil
  • Chapter 6. The unconventional gas revolution
  • -The potential of unconventional gas resources
  • Tight gas
  • Shale gas
  • Coal-bed methane
  • The potential for methane hydrates
  • Environmental impact
  • Technology development
  • Chapter 7. Coal in the 21st century
  • -Types of coal
  • Coal classifications
  • Demand for coal
  • Classification of traded hard coals
  • Calculating coal deposits
  • Coal extraction
  • Coal use
  • Coal for electricity generation
  • Coal-to-liquids
  • Environmental impact
  • Chapter 8. Production costs of fossil fuels
  • -Factors influencing production costs
  • Production cost curve for oil
  • Production cost curve for gas
  • Production cost curve for coal
  • Chapter 9. Meeting the environmental challenges
  • Production-related GHG emissions from oil resources
  • Upstream GHG emissions
  • Impact of carbon pricing
  • Energy sector methane releases
  • List of abbreviations, acronyms and units of measure
  • References: A list of references can be found at the end of each chapter