Observations and prediction of recovered quality of desalinated seawater in the strategic ASR project in Liwa, Abu Dhabi

To be able to overcome water shortages, Abu Dhabi Emirate started an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) project with desalinated seawater (DSW) as source water near Liwa. It is the largest DSW-ASR project in the world (stored volume ~10 Mm³/year), and should recover potable water for direct use. DSW is infiltrated into a desert...

3-D shallow-water seismic survey evaluation and design using the focal-beam method: a case study offshore Abu Dhabi

For 3-D shallow-water seismic surveys offshore Abu Dhabi, imaging the target reflectors requires high resolution. Characterization and monitoring of hydrocarbon reservoirs by seismic amplitude-versus-offset techniques demands high pre-stack amplitude fidelity. In this region, however, it still was not clear how the survey parameters should be...