RE: It’s one of two things only ..5 Feb 2024 22:10
Simon,
It is you who simply cannot deal with the reality.
OK so when it was producing to Theddlethorpe, they were running the simplest production set up, open the wells to a manifold and send whatever those wells can produce down 8km of pipeline to the refinery, let them sort it out there.
The ONLY driving mechanism to push the gas and liquids to Theddlethorpe was the reservoir pressure to surface. the more liquids in the line the harder it is for the drive pressure to force the gas and liquids down the pipeline until eventually it stalls out.
Bit like if you blow down a hosepipe that is empty, it is easy to blow air through from one end to the other, now put a couple pints of water in the same hose and blow, it will be almost impossible to push the water through. basically you create back pressure and once that beck pressure is greater than the driving force to send it out the end then it is stalled, or you install a pump etc and mechanically increase that drive pressure.
Angus implemented infield plant to remove the liquids at surface and minimise any back pressure from liquids production, thus they have free gas to market, but as the reservoir further depletes, so does the pressure, and so increases the creation of condensates/liquids that MUST also be produced at the same time, the pipeline to theddlethorpe is reduced to the pipeline from the reservoir to the plant, but it is still a pipeline and it is already in the window of now suffering the same issue.
You can call whatever folk say as "guestimates" I don't give a flyin ferk, I seen more than enough wells and fields in my time to understand the basic laws and principles, especially where wells and fields are NOT doing as was originally hoped/expected, strange that !!!
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