Informed production optimization in hydrocarbon reservoirs

The exploitation of subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs is achieved through the control of production and injection wells (i.e., by prescribing time-varying pressures and flow rates) to create conditions that make the hydrocarbons trapped in the pores of the rock formation flow to the surface. The design of production strategies to exploit these...

Near well-bore sealing in the Becej CO 2 reservoir: Field tests of a silicate based sealant

A silica gel was applied in a porous gas reservoir, with the purpose of testing mitigation and remediation of CO 2 leakage from geological storage reservoirs. The gel has a high strength and a very low water-like viscosity, that extends its applicability to small pore diameters and low permeability media. The gel was prepared and applied on-site...

CO2 injection in low pressure depleted reservoirs

Re-using depleted fields (and platforms and wells) offers advantages over developing storage projects in saline formations. However, with reservoir pressures after production sometimes below 20 bar, there can be a large pressure difference between the reservoir and the transport pipeline at the surface, which will be typically at pressures in...

Reservoir management under geological uncertainty using fast model update

Statoil is implementing "Fast Model Update (FMU)," an integrated and automated workflow for reservoir modeling and characterization. FMU connects all steps and disciplines from seismic depth conversion to prediction and reservoir management taking into account relevant reservoir uncertainty. FMU delivers an ensemble of geologically-consistent...

Extended Brugge benchmark case for history matching and water flooding optimization

The Brugge benchmark case designed for the SPE Applied Technology Workshop (ATW) held in Brugge in June 2008 has proven to be valuable for testing and comparing methods of history matching, production optimization and closed-loop optimization by its extensive use in literature. Key features that contributed to its usefulness for history matching...

Feasibility of borehole radar measurements to monitor water/steam fronts in EOR applications

A technique capable of capturing the dynamic of the reservoir fluids in the proximity of production wells would provide enormous benefit to the reservoir management; in fact, monitoring can be used to develop a feedback loop between measurements and control technologies to optimize the production. This paper examines the feasibility of a...