Anthropogenic land subsidence above compactinggas/oi! fields can raise great concern in areas where the occurrence may impact significantly on the local environrnent. A practice to be recommended and implemented prior to the resources development should address the actual risk connected with the field production and define a possibly shared strategy with the aim at compounding as much as possible the potential adversarial conflicts representedby the various stakeholders involved, e.g. private associations with interests in the affected area andpublic agenciesincludingthose responsible for water management, land-use planning, industriai development, and environrnental protection. In other words, the field production programme ultimately planned and set up should take care of what is now known as a "sustainable development". The basic steps toward meeting the above objective should include: I) an analysis of the environmental,economica!and social impact; 2) a plan for measuring and monitoring the process during the field life and also for some while atter the field abandonrnent;3) the design of prospective remedial actions if the impact exceeds the limiting threshold magnitudeoriginallyand responsivelyagreedupon by the parties involved. To implement those steps mathematical models and numerical predictions may play a most important role. The present communicationdescribes a tentative road map leading to the definition of general conceptual guidelines that can help plan a sustainable field development and design an acceptable exploitation programme.

Basic conceptual guidelines for a sustainable gas/oil field development

GAMBOLATI, GIUSEPPE;TEATINI, PIETRO;FERRONATO, MASSIMILIANO
2005

Abstract

Anthropogenic land subsidence above compactinggas/oi! fields can raise great concern in areas where the occurrence may impact significantly on the local environrnent. A practice to be recommended and implemented prior to the resources development should address the actual risk connected with the field production and define a possibly shared strategy with the aim at compounding as much as possible the potential adversarial conflicts representedby the various stakeholders involved, e.g. private associations with interests in the affected area andpublic agenciesincludingthose responsible for water management, land-use planning, industriai development, and environrnental protection. In other words, the field production programme ultimately planned and set up should take care of what is now known as a "sustainable development". The basic steps toward meeting the above objective should include: I) an analysis of the environmental,economica!and social impact; 2) a plan for measuring and monitoring the process during the field life and also for some while atter the field abandonrnent;3) the design of prospective remedial actions if the impact exceeds the limiting threshold magnitudeoriginallyand responsivelyagreedupon by the parties involved. To implement those steps mathematical models and numerical predictions may play a most important role. The present communicationdescribes a tentative road map leading to the definition of general conceptual guidelines that can help plan a sustainable field development and design an acceptable exploitation programme.
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