Orphan Wells as an Energy Storage Solution

孤井作为储能解决方案

• 批准号: 571079-2021
• 负责人: McInnis, JamieJ
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=755658
• 关键词: Orphan; Wells; Energy; Storage; Solution

Alberta is full of abandoned and orphan wells; there are 97,000 wells that have not been closed and 71,000 not reclaimed, orphaned and left. When oil and gas wells are no longer productive, if the facility does not have any legal responsibility or is financially unable to pay for abandonment and reclamation costs, wellbores become orphaned and/or abandoned. Current regulatory regimes require projects to be reclaimed, both downhole and at the surface, with significant cost and liability to oil and gas producers. The federal government of Canada plans to spend $1.7 billion to clean up wellbores that have been orphaned and/or abandoned in Western Canada. This is part of their COVID-19 Economic Response Plan for the energy sector to create jobs and clean up the environment. This billion-dollar investment manage inactive wells in Canada is designed to reduce the amount of liabilities that come with the alarming number of inactive wells. In Alberta, these wells are under the jurisdiction of Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) who then delegates clean up responsibilities to the Alberta Orphan Wells Association (OWA) for the continuation of their work of successfully decommissioning wells. From 2002 to 2018, the OWA decommissioned approximately 2,200 orphan wells and reclaimed 800 others. Their work is still ongoing as more than half of Alberta's wells are no longer in production and have been abandoned and left uncleaned. Warner Business Park Ltd. (Warner) has presented a unique solution for Canada's oil and gas industry; to convert inactive wellbore liabilities into renewable energy storage systems through gravitational potential energy. This project will build and implement the first prototype for a downhole well using a training well on site at SAIT.

艾伯塔省充满了废弃的孤儿井；有97,000口井尚未关闭，有71,000口井没有回收，孤儿和剩下。当石油和天然气井不再有生产力时，如果该设施没有任何法律责任或在财务上无法支付遗弃和开垦费用，那么Wellbores将成为孤儿和/或被遗弃。当前的监管制度要求在井下和表面上回收项目，对石油和天然气生产商的成本和责任很高。加拿大联邦政府计划花17亿加元来清理加拿大西部孤儿和/或废弃的井孔。这是他们共同创造就业机会和清理环境的能源领域的共同经济响应计划的一部分。这项价值十亿美元的投资管理加拿大的不活动井，旨在减少令人震惊的不活动井的负债量。在艾伯塔省，这些井处于艾伯塔省能源监管机构（AER）的管辖范围内，后者随后将清理责任委派给了艾伯塔省孤儿威尔斯协会（OWA），以继续他们成功地退役井的工作。 从2002年到2018年，OWA退役了大约2200辆孤儿井，并重新夺回了800人。他们的工作仍在进行中，因为艾伯塔省的一半以上不再生产，并且被遗弃和尚未清洁。华纳商业公园有限公司（华纳）为加拿大的石油和天然气行业提供了独特的解决方案。通过重力势能将不活跃的井孔负债转换为可再生能源存储系统。该项目将使用SAIT现场的培训井来构建和实施第一个井下井的原型。