An economic approach to gas flare-down in a selected field in Nigeria

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition 2010, NAICE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 922-933

  Adewale, D ^a   Ogunrinde, Joshua O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED GAS; COPENHAGEN; ECONOMIC APPROACH; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FINANCIAL ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL VIABILITY; GAS CONSUMPTION; GAS FLARES; GAS FLARING; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GAS UTILIZATION; GASEOUS FUEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LOCAL ECONOMY; NATURAL GAS CONSUMPTION; NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA; POWER GRIDS; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME;

ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; INVESTMENTS; NATURAL GAS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; POWER GENERATION;

GASES;

EID: 78650472672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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