Unconventional Oil Production Plant Construction Core Technology Report Conference that will bring New Age to the Oversea Plant Construction Market
(Image 1) Unconventional Oil Business Group Workshop
SKKU (President Dong Ryeol Shin) announced that the school participated the launching report conference held in Yongsan Smart City Enterprise Organization main conference hall on June 24th, responsible for overall management of ‘Unconventional Oil Production Plant Construction Core Technology Development Project’, a national R&D project by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Minister Hee-ryong Won) and Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (abbr. KAIA, Head of Agency Seung-gi Park).
This project aims to enter oversea plant construction market by localizing more than 80% of the production plant core technology and procuring Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) of each technology for securing plant construction competence through unconventional oil, represented as oil sands, development technology independence. The project began since April, and held launching report conference on June 24th.
The project group is composed of one overall and five focused sectors and 47 institutions will proceed with SKKU (Project Leader Am Jang), the overall sector institution, as the center.
The project’s R&D tasks will be conducted in 2 phases; the first phase where the research and developments focus on the core technology will be proceeded from April 2022 to December 2025 (3 years and 9 months) and the second phase where the actual technology application and demonstration such as construction, tests/continuous operation will be held from January 2026 to December 2028 (3 years).
From this year to 2026, a total of 195.2 billion won project fund will be invested into 46 institutions for the next 7 years.
In this launching report conference, the focused sector research institutions, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and KAIA shared project’s research development purpose, research and demonstration plans and discussed future courses.
There were further discussions about production plant FEED independence and core technology localization substantiation methods for overseas plant construction market export, which is the core of the R&D project.
(Image 2) Unconventional Oil Project Leader Professor Am Jang
This project’s leader and overall manager, SKKU Professor Am Jang, suggested specific performance objectives for each module and asserted accompanied growth with local small & medium material enterprises along with oversea market export through flexible promotion strategies.
KAIA Plant Department head Raesang Park said, “This new national R&D project will solve energy security and fossil fuel depletion problems and become foundation for obtaining oversea construction order in plant field and creating business model. We will put more efforts into procuring local plant core technology.”
<Attached> Introduction of Unconventional Oil Production Plant Construction Project
(Project Outline) Task Composition and Implementation of Unconventional Oil Production Plant
(Project Name) Unconventional Oil Production Plant Construction Core Technology Development
*Unconventional Oil: Petroleum resources produced by new technologies that were not investigated due to technical difficulties and high costs. (e.g. Super heavy oil, Shale oil, Tight oil, etc.)
(Research Period) 2022~2028 (7 years, 2 phases)
(Total Business Costs) 195.2 billion won
(Project Purpose) Unconventional oil production and transport plant core technology development, and provide opportunity for exporting technology to middle/top plant construction market by procuring technology competence through demonstration
(Project Host) Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement)
(Project Goal) Unconventional Oil Production/Treatment/Transport Plant Core Technology Development and Demonstration
- Diversification of the oil industry into the middle and upper sectors through the development of core technologies for solving the regional and industrial bias phenomenon
- Contribute to enhancing competitiveness and accompanied growth of domestic small/medium-sized material companies by developing core and source technologies including FEEDs, away from winning EPC orders in construction-oriented plant construction market
(Project Outline 2) Unconventional Oil Production Plant Task Composition & Promotion System
<Major Research Contents by Focus Area>
(Focus 1) Production and Circulation Performance Goals and Achievements
(Point 1, Production/Cycle) Unconventional Oil Eco-Friendly/High Yield Recovery and Circulation System Development
- Develop Eco-friendly/high yield method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving unconventional oil recovery rate, steam production/injection facilities to secure liquidity, and well pad system technology
(Focus 2) Objectives for Development of Collection and Separation Technology
(Point 2, Collection/Separation) Technology Development of Oil-containing Multi-Phase Mixture Collection and Separation
- Ground facility technology for collecting and separating multi-phase mixture containing mud, sand, oil, and harmful gases emitted from oil production sites
(Focus 3) Scope of Water Treatment Technology Development
(Point 3, Water Treatment) Equipment Technology for Oil Removal and Water Treatment in Production Water System
- Unconventional oil customized reuse water treatment technology for removing and treating oil from high concentrations of wastewater from unconventional oil production plants
(Focus 4) Promotion System for Partial Reformation Technology Development
(Point 4, Partial Reform) Partial Reformation Technology for Long-distance Transfer of unconventional oil
- Water based ground partial reformation technology for producing Synthetic Crude Oil that has quality and properties of long-distance pipeline transport from high-viscosity unconventional oils
(Focus 5) Goal of Developing Integrated Demonstration Technology
(Point 5, Integrated Demonstration) Design and Integrated Demonstration Technology for Oil Production Plants
- Integrated demonstration in the real-like environment for practical application of core technology developed in the project for oil production and treatment plant construction
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