NGLs AND GAS CONDENSATE CLASSIFICATION

PROJECT: PHASE 3

TECHNICAL REVIEW MEETING

January 31, 2022.

OUTLINE

• BACKGROUND
• PHASES 1 & 2: OVERVIEW
• PHASE 3: OBJECTIVES & SCOPE
WORK
• PHASE 3: CLASSIFICATION
METHODOLOGY
• PHASE 3: WORK PLAN
• PHASE 3: STATUS UPDATE
• CHALLENGES
 BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
• The OPEC Representative from the Office of the
Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources (MPR)
plans to get all NGLs and Gas Condensate from the
Niger Delta Basin and the Deep Offshore Classified
according to OPEC resolution LXXXIV286.

• Based on the foregoing, the assistance of the Group

Managing Director of NNPC was sought, to mandate
NNPC R&D Division in collaboration with DPR to carry
out the classification based on the OPEC resolution
indicated above.

• To compute the daily volume of Gas Condensate

PHASE 1: OVERVIEW
BACKGROUND
• Commencement & Completion Date: January,
2017 - December, 2017.
• Joint Project Team: NNPC R&D (Now NOFS)
and DPR (Now NUPRC)
• Technical Consultant: HPO Global Resources.

OBJECTIVES
 To classify Nigerian Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs)
and Gas condensate from all reservoirs in
compliance with OPEC classification criteria.

 To compute the total volume of Gas condensate

PHASE 1: SUMMARY OF RESERVOIR
CLASSIFICATION AS AT 2017

Borderline Gas Condensate

27% 7%

Oil
66%

Gas Condensate Oil Reservoirs

Borderline
PHASE 1: SUMMARY OF DAILY VOLUME OF
CONDENSATE PRODUCED AS AT 2017
DAILY PRODUCTION VOLUME OF CONDENSATE
VS OIL COMPANIES

NOTE:
• Agbami and Akpo were left as originally classified by the
Operators.
PHASE 2: OVERVIEW
BACKGROUND
• Commencement & Completion Date: February,
2018 - July, 2019
• Joint Project Team: NNPC R&D (Now NOFS)
and DPR (Now NUPRC)
• Technical Consultant: HPO Global.

OBJECTIVES
 To carry out atmospheric sampling of identified
“Borderline” fluids.
 To subject all sampled “Borderline” fluid samples to
batch distillation test (ASTM D86) based on OPEC
criteria.
PHASE 2: SUMMARY OF RESERVOIRS
CLASSIFICATION AFTER ASTM D86 TEST
CLASSIFICATION
Borderline Borderline Unsampled Borderline
Gas
Reservoirs reservoirs Borderline fluids Oil
Condensate
from Phase 1 sampled reservoirs Analysed
395 217 178 217 57 160

No. of
S/No. Fluid Type %
Reservoirs
1 Gas Condensate 57 26
2 Oil 160 74
PHASE 2: VOLUME OF CONDENSATE AFTER
ASTM D86 TEST
 PHASE 3: OBJECTIVES

• To carry out PVT/Compositional analysis of some

identified reservoir fluids with incomplete PVT data.

• To evaluate and compute daily production volume of

the identified Gas condensate reservoirs.
 INTRODUCTION
PHASE 3- SCOPE OF WORK
PROJECT INITIATION- MILESTONE ONE
• BOSIET Certifications for Project team.
• ONSITE Training.
• Team Setup : NOFS, NUPRC & HPO Global.
• Supply of PPEs, sample bottles and sampling kits to all samplers.
• Mobilization to identified locations (logistics, sample handling, sample
movement and sample storage: storage facility).

FIELD SAMPLING: MILESTONE TWO & THREE

• Sampling of 90 reservoirs from the different field locations.
• Shipment of 80 samples to the external laboratory and 10 samples to the NOFS
laboratory.

LABORATORY ANALYSIS: MILESTONE FOUR & FIVE

• PVT/Compositional Analysis for 80 reservoirs.
• PVT/Compositional Analysis for 10 reservoirs by NOFS.

TECHNICAL REPORTING: MILESTONE SIX & SEVEN

• Results review and recommendations.
• Integration of Phases 1, 2 & 3 reports
PHASE 3: CLASSIFICATION METHODOLOGY
UPPER LIMIT:
API:≥50
GOR ≥5000SCF/BBL CONDE
C7+:≤ 3.5 NSATES

EXPERIMENTA
L RESULTS
CCE: Saturation VOLUME
PVT & pressure COMPUTATION
Compositional SEPTEST: API &
Analysis
Results GOR
Fluid OIL
Composition:
C7+

LOWER LIMIT:
API:≤45
GOR:≤5000SCF/BBL
C7+:8% or higher
PHASE 3- WORK PLAN

RESULT REVIEW BY TECHNICAL TEAM

SAMPLING KITS/SAMPLE BOTTLES
PPES/PFDs
BOSIET/OSP CERTIFICATIONS
ONSITE TRAINING
SAMPLING OF RESERVOIRS
PVT/COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES
INVITATION TO GET SAMPLES

RESULT FINA
PROJECT LAB INTEGRATI L
FIELD ANALYSI
INITIATION ON & REP
SAMPLIN S
G REPORTIN ORT
G
GAS CONDENSATE
PVT RESULTS DATABASE UPDATE
REVIEW
SAMPLING
HANDLING & JOINT INTEGRATION BY PROJECT TEAM/REVIEW MEETING
SETUP-TEAMS SHIPMENT OF
STORAGE
DPR LETTERS TO FACILITY
OPERATORS SAMPLES
MOBILIZATION TO LOCATIONS
 PHASE 3: STATUS
UPDATE
Milestone One: Completed

 BOSIET Certifications for Project Team

 ONSITE Training at Benin and Sapele (OBEN

FLOW STATION SEPLAT).

 Supply of PPE’s, Sampling Bottles & Sampling kits

to all samplers.

 Mobilizations to SEPLAT, SNEPCO, SPDC, AGIP

and NPDC locations.
 PHASE 3: STATUS UPDATE
Cont’d
Milestone Two: Completed (45/45) reservoirs.
 Sampled 45 reservoirs for PVT analysis

 Milestone Three: (26/45) reservoirs.

 Sampled 26 reservoirs for PVT analysis

NOTES
 Mobilized to SEPLAT, AGIP, SNEPCO, SPDC and
NPDC locations.
 Total reservoir samples collected is 71/90
 Plans to re-mobilize to NPDC, AGIP and SPDC
locations to cover the remaining reservoirs.
 PHASE 3: STATUS UPDATE
Cont’d
Milestone Four: Completed (45/45) reservoirs
 PVT/Compositional analysis of first batch of 40
reservoirs in external laboratory and 5 reservoirs in
NOFS laboratory.

 Milestone Five: Ongoing

 Ongoing plans to ship batch 2 samples to external
laboratory Laboratory analysis.

Milestone Six and Seven:

 Classification, Volume computation and integration
of results by the Joint Technical team.
PHASE 3: SUMMARY OF RESERVOIRS
CLASSIFICATION AFTER PVT/COMPOSITIONAL
ANALYSIS

S/No. Description No. of Reservoirs %

1 Gas Condensate 20 22
2 Oil Reservoirs 48 53
3 Borderline 22 24
Total 1445 100
CHALLENGES

Delay by Operators to grant access into their facilities

for sampling of the identified reservoirs.

Being unable to get samples due to:

Reservoirs/Well status (shut-in wells),
Test separator availability in field location and
Lack of feedback from Operators.
RECOMMENDATIONS

 Continuous discussions with the Operators on

invitations to get samples from identified reservoirs.

 Follow up on the current status of the

fields/reservoirs/wells before we mobilize to the
locations.

 Early volume computation of the identified reservoirs,

to optimize time and fast completion of the project.
OBEN 11S RESULT (OIL C7+38Mol%)
OBEN 31L RESULT (BORDERLINE
C7+ 4.3Mol%)
 OBEN 39L RESULT (GAS
CONDENSATE C7+3.3Mol%)
HPO Global
Separator Samples Compositional Analysis
SGS Report No. SGSUS-0121-11-5400221010087

Composition of Calculated Wellstream

Calculated from Separator Products' Compositions & Gas/Oil Ratio

Sample Numbers : OBEN 39L & OBEN 39L Sample Type : Recombined Separator Products

Component Reservoir Fluid

Wt.% Mol.%

N2 Nitrogen 0.245 0.213

CO2 Carbon Dioxide 1.157 0.642
H2 S Hydrogen Sulfide 0.000 0.000
C1 Methane 52.747 80.338
C2 Ethane 9.522 7.736
C3 Propane 7.413 4.106
iC4 iso-Butane 2.253 0.947
nC4 n-Butane 2.998 1.260
iC5 iso-Pentane 1.436 0.486
nC5 n-Pentane 1.255 0.425
C6 Hexanes 1.857 0.541
C7 Heptanes 2.995 0.813
C8 Octanes 3.587 0.865
C9 Nonanes 2.204 0.468
C10 Decanes 1.234 0.221
C11 Undecanes 1.161 0.189
C12 Dodecanes 0.761 0.113
C13 T ridecanes 0.695 0.095
C14 T etradecanes 0.672 0.085
C15 Pentadecanes 0.681 0.080
C16 Hexadecanes 0.506 0.055
C17 Heptadecanes 0.508 0.053
C18 Octadecanes 0.347 0.033
C19 Nonadecanes 0.267 0.024
C20 Eicosanes 0.271 0.023
C21 Henicosanes 0.241 0.020
C22 Docosanes 0.235 0.019
C23 T ricosanes 0.230 0.018
C24 T etracosanes 0.185 0.013
C25 Pentacosanes 0.190 0.013
C26 Hexacosanes 0.183 0.012
C27 Heptacosanes 0.176 0.011
C28 Octacosanes 0.165 0.010
C29 Nonacosanes 0.157 0.010
C30 T riacontanes 0.149 0.008
C31 Henitriacontanes 0.134 0.008
C32 Dotriacontanes 0.111 0.006
C33 T ritricontanes 0.105 0.005
C34 T etratricontanes 0.071 0.004
C35 Pentatriacontanes 0.062 0.003
1
C36+ Hexatriacontanes plus 0.834 0.029
100.000 100.000

Recombination Parameters:
Wellstream Molar Ratio, mol gas / mol liquid 21.82
Fluid Total Molecular Weight, gm/mol 24.4
(1) Hexatri contanes pl us properti es cal cul ated by summati on of al l composi ti onal data.
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