Real Time Surveillance and Optimization of a Heavy Oil Field

Author(s):  
Dave Schotanus ◽  
Ron Cramer ◽  
Shivinder Babbar ◽  
Roald Brouwer
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2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Cramer ◽  
S. Babbar ◽  
R. Brouwer ◽  
D. Schotanus
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Sanchez ◽  
Iván Coronel ◽  
Edgar Mora ◽  
Carlos Giosa ◽  
Monica Satizabal ◽  
...  

Abstract Traditional waterflooding methods in heavy oil fields can lead to several problems including reductions of swapping efficiency, channeling of injected water, and low values of recovery factor. These problems are often made worse by other critical factors such as lack of real-time data, operational incidents during injection profile calibration, and complexity of interventions in the existing wells. An innovative solution was implemented in a four-zone injector well in a heavy oil field in Colombia consisting of four intelligent electric valves controlled remotely and distributed fiber optic monitoring to calculate injected flow per zone in real-time. This system allowed the operator to increase oil production in the associated producer wells and eliminate rig-less interventions. The first installation of an All-Electric intelligent completion with distributed fiber optic monitoring was successfully deployed in a complex existing injector well without HSE incidents nor deviations in time and cost. After one year of operation, the system increased production in corresponding producer wells by 62% and saved 30% of operational costs. Additionally, the completion design has improved the injection performance which means that the system requires less injected water to produce the same amount of oil. All these results were possible thanks to the use of a more efficient injection completion and the use of real-time data to make on-time decisions. The importance of this implementation is that it demonstrated that this type of technology not only solves different challenges of the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) strategies of mature fields but also brings additional value in terms of oil production, injection performance, and reduction in operational costs. In this way, this application showed that an intelligent completion - usually expensive in terms of initial investment - is financially viable to implement in mature existing wells with limited CAPEX availability. This paper will present the implementation of an intelligent well completion system that uses permanent distributed fiber optics to monitor water injection in 4 independent zones. The document will also include details regarding the reasons to install this technology in a mature field, well and technology selection, intelligent completion design, and installation. Results will be compared to conventional completion for injector wells that depends on rig-less intervention to measure and regulate injected flow per zone.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
S.M. Durkin ◽  
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I.N. Menshikova ◽  
L.M. Rusin ◽  
A.A. Terentiev ◽  
...  
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2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis A. Carrillo ◽  
Juan C. Gomez ◽  
Jorge A. Castaneda ◽  
Rodolfo M. Rueda ◽  
Orlando J. Urribarri ◽  
...  
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Author(s):  
L.F. Lamas ◽  
V.E. Botechia ◽  
D.J. Schiozer ◽  
M.L. Rocha ◽  
M. Delshad
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2013 ◽  
Vol 701 ◽  
pp. 440-444
Author(s):  
Gang Liu ◽  
Peng Tao Liu ◽  
Bao Sheng He

Sand production is a serious problem during the exploitation of oil wells, and people put forward the concept of limited sand to alleviate this problem. Oil production with limited sanding is an efficient mod of production. In order to complete limited sand exploitation, improve the productivity of oil wells, a real-time sand monitoring system is needed to monitor the status of wells production. Besides acoustic sand monitoring and erosion-based sand monitoring, a vibration-based sand monitoring system with two installing styles is proposed recently. The paper points out the relationships between sand monitoring signals collected under intrusive and non-intrusive installing styles and sanding parameters, which lays a good foundation for further study and actual sand monitoring in oil field.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Omar Al-Manhali ◽  
Mohammed Al-rawahi ◽  
Suleiman Mohammed Al-hinai ◽  
Abdullah Alwazeer ◽  
Simon John Brissenden ◽  
...  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 644-650 ◽  
pp. 5142-5145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Luo

China is rich in resources of heavy oil.But some oilfield heavy oil reservoir in the development process will encounter interlining, affecting the development effect. In the process of SAGD to carry out the basic research of reservoir interlayer is helpful to identify the basic attributes of reservoir in the interlayer. The interlayer of SAGD development process is helpful to find the study focus and direction of development. Steam chamber breakthrough research achievements of interlining research abroad, summarizes the steam chamber breakthrough interlining, provide technical support for the oil field SAGD breakthrough interlining, it is of great significance for promoting SAGD efficient development.


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