Published August 2019

The influence of natural factors on oil-gas production

N.A. Shirin-zade

The development of offshore oil and gas-condensate fields is rather cost and complicated, high-risk process associated with external aspects, such as highs seismicity, strong underflows, deep depths, environment temperature, as well as various cata- clysms – windstorms, storms causing high sea and underwater earthquakes. In this regard, the influence of these factors on the production of oil, gas and gas-condensate from offshore fields is an urgent task. With this purpose, an effort to define the possible impact of wind speed, wave height, seawater and ambient temperature on the production of oil and gas in offshore conditions has been made. To study the task set, average annual data on the Caspian Sea for the period of 2009-2018 has been used. Via the correlation-regression analysis, the dependences allowing evalu- ating the impact degree of average annual wind speed, wave height, as well as the seawater and ambient temperatures on the parameters of field development have been obtained.