Gas field planning tool

Gas Field Planning Tool (GFPT) was developed in 1990 by the Shell Group of Companies to fill the need for a tool for gas field planning and developmen t using deterministic subsurface and surface models. Main initiators were S hell Canada, NAM (the Netherlands), Shell Expro (UK) and BSP (Shell Brunei) , as these companies are major gas producers. Shell Companies now have several years experience with using the GFPT. Appl ication ranges from simple single held models to corporate-level models wit h a large number of gas reservoirs and wells. Shell companies now using GFP T models are Shell Expro (UK), BSP (Brunei), SSB (Malaysia), Shell Canada, SPDC (Nigeria), SDA (Australia), Woodside (Australia), PDO (Oman), NAM (dhe Netherlands), New Business Development (e.g. Lunar Project) and in future also Shell Egypt. NAM currently has a GFPT model for the Anjum field in Friesland and for the Ten Arlo field in the north of Holland. GFPT is currently being migrated to an HFPT (Hydrocarbon Field Planning Too l), which can also be used for planning of condensate, oil and water develo pments and for control of hydrocarbon compositions in the network using PVT de-lumping at the well head (e.g. for LNG plants) and optimisation techniq ues (linear, non-linear or based on bean-back lists).