Presented by
T07: Reservoir Surveillance to Flood Optimization on Mature Fields
Instructor:
Rod Batycky, Ph.D., Co-founder of Streamsim Technologies Inc.Who should attend:
Reservoir and exploitation engineers, and engineering technologists.Tutorial Description:
Streamline-based (SL) flow simulation is a complimentary modelling approach to traditional simulation methods. When applicable, it can yield additional engineering data, such as drainage/irrigation volumes and well rate allocation factors that are extremely valuable to proactively manage large multi-well water and/or EOR floods.In the first part of this half-day tutorial, a basic overview of streamline simulation theory will be covered. Items include the key features of modern streamline simulators, novel output and where/when to use streamlines. The second part will focus on production surveillance of waterfloods using streamline-based methods and how to easily identify good versus poor sweep areas. We will show the ease with which relevant surveillance models can be constructed and that streamline-based surveillance can give a radically different picture of injector performance than classic fixed-pattern analysis. The last part of the tutorial will cover how to proactively manage a multi-well flood with the goal to reduce fluid cycling through well-rate rebalancing once efficient and inefficient areas are identified.