Impact économique des techniques de récupération sur l'évolution des ressources pétrolières
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Abstract EN:
The traget of this thesis is to prove the importance of the impact of the all enhanced recovery processes in increasing the world oil reserves. Excepted the thermal processes, the most of others enhanced recovery processes are not yet efficient, because their weakness of the technological development and their high cost of production. However the technical progress would improve their technical efficiency and their cost could be reduced. Consequently, the short term impact of the recovery processes is different of thier long term impact. In conclusion, the short term impact would be very slight because the above mentioned reasons and also because the present situation of the oil market is characterized by a slow consumption and low prices. In the other hand, the long term impact would be very important if the research and development in this branch are amplified and if the economic conditions of the development of these processes of enhanced recovery are fulfiled. By this way, it would be possible to double the world oil proved reserves by developing the potential of enhanced recovery. So, it is a question of a big deal.
Abstract FR:
L'objectif de cette these est de demontrer l'importance du role de l'ensemble des techniques de recuperation assistee dans l'accroissement des reserves petrolieres mondiales. Mises a part les methodes thermiques, la plupart des autres methodes de recuperation amelioree ne sont pas encore techniquement et economiquement au point, etant donne leurs faiblesses technologiques et leurs couts de production eleves. Cependant, le progres techniques devrait y remedier en ameliorant leur fiabilite technique et en abaissant leur cout. Il en resulte que l'impact a court terme des techniques de recuperation sur l'evolution des ressources petrolieres est distinct de l'impact a long terme. En somme, l'impact a court terme semble etre tres faible pour les raisons enumerees ci-dessus et egalement du fait de la conjonture petroliere actuelle caracterisee par le ralentissement de la consommation et la faiblesse des prix. Tandis que l'impact a long terme pourrait etre immense si les efforts de recherche et de developpement dans ce domaine sont amplifies et si les conditions economiques de developpment des techniques de recuperation assistee sont reunies. Ainsi, en developpant le potentiel de la recuperation assistee, on serait en mesure de doubler les reserves prouves de la planete. Par consequent, il s'agit d'un enjeu considerable.