HYDROCARBONS LIFECYCLE

Worldwide Energy Scenario
 Agenda

1. History of oil industry

2. Worldwide energy scenario
3. Negotiations, contracts, and tax system
4. Chemical-physical properties of hydrocarbons
5. Geology applied to the search for hydrocarbons
6. Techniques and processes of hydrocarbons exploration
7. The development of the reservoir and surface facilities construction
8. The role of the reservoir engineering
9. Reservoir classification and modelling
10. Recovery methods and production optimization
11. Drilling rigs and technologies
12. Operational geology activities
13. Well completion
14. Workover, wireline and well testing
15. Production, treatment and transportation of hydrocarbons
16. Crude oil refining and petrochemicals
17. Logistics and maintenance
18. Economics of a hydrocarbons reservoir
19. Energy industry scenario
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 WORLDWIDE ENERGY SCENARIO

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 Pianeta, September/October 1967,
Compagnia Editoriale, Turin, Italy

Article by Berreby JJ
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 Introduction – The importance of oil and gas

Gutchev S, Vassiliev M, La vie au XXIe siècle,

Buchet-Chastel, 1964 (translated from Russian by
5 de Neubourg C)
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IMPORTANZA DEL PETROLIO

Trend of worldwide consumption of primary energy 1800‐2018
(Vaclav Smil, Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives (2017), and BP Statistical 
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Review of World Energy)
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We are crossing an energetic

transition different from those that
went before from the beginning of
the industrial era.
In the past what decided the
direction to be taken were the
dynamics of the market, the
infrastructures, and the advances in
the technology fed by the use of the
coal first, and then by the
hydrocarbons.
Presently, the processes are guided
by the protection of the
environment, for a transition aimed
at reducing the impact of man’s
activity.

Claudio Descalzi, Eni CEO

June 19, 2018
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«…. Then a second phase,

the most recent one, a
great long-term plan to
2050, started last year.
A very ambitious plan, a
trasforming industrial
strategy, maybe the
biggest and most
incredible of all Eni history
that will profoundly
change the company.
Emma Marcegaglia, Eni President
Farewell message (Eni video), May 4, 2020

A strategy to 2050 that will allow Eni to remain an integrated industrial

company, with a new upstream made by the gas and the renewable energies.
All the remaining productive and industrial processes will be transformed in a
sustainable way and all our products will be totally decarbonized. Thanks to this
strategy we will be able to reduce by 2050 our emissions of 80%. …»
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Energy consumption forecast 2016-2040

Evolving Transition (ET) = policies and

technological development will evolve with
the same trend of the recent past.
Internal combustion engine ban (ICE)
= ban of cars equipped by internal
combusiton motor.
Less gas switching = policies supporting
a modest transition from coal to gas.
Renewables push (RE push) = policies
supporting a transition to renewable
energies.
Faster transition (FT) = policies
supporting a faster transition to renewable
energies.
Even faster transition (EFT) = policies
supporting an even faster transition to
renewable energies.

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Energy consumption forecast 2016-2040

Renewable energies
include wind, solar,
geothermal, biomass, and
biodiesel.

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Energy consumption forecast 2016-2040

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Cainenga et al (PetroChina), Energy Revolution: From a Fossil Energy Era to a New Energy, Natural Gas
Industry B, 3 (2016) 1‐11
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AAVV, For a just transition, Eni, 2019

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 Introduction – The main sectors of the oil and gas business

Oil and gas industry is normally divided in three sectors

UPSTREAM MIDSTREAM DOWNSTREAM

Exploration Transport Refining
and and And
Production Storage Chemicals

New Ventures Evaluation Oil and Gas Transport Oil refining

Exploration and Drilling Pipelines management Chemicals production

Oil and Gas Production Gas storage Distribution to end users

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upstream BASIN EVALUATION

Regional Studies in order to identify exploration targets

EXPLORATION
Licenses Acquisition, Geological Studies, Seismic Acquisition &
Drilling

DEVELOPMENT
Feasibility Studies to optimize field development
implementaiton of wells and facilities

PRODUCTION
Management, Workover, Abandonment

midstream OIL NATURAL GAS

Tankers GNL
CNG
Oil Pipes Gas Pipes

TRADING

Chemical
downstream Refinery Gas market
Marketing

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