Tuesday, November 6, 2018

How Reliable Is Production Data Analysis

By Margaret Scott


The world we live in today has been broken into different volumes that can be summed up into data. Production Data Analysis is mostly sought in the handling large volumes of data that is from multiple sources, contains multiple frequency records or in events where identification and synchronization are required. It is also used to assign appropriate production rate to the right fields. The article below highlights some of the benefits associated with records analysis in the world today.

Analysis can be separated into two and that is the estimation of reservoir properties from transient flow data and the estimation of reservoir volume from boundary-dominated flow information. It is important to note that legacy creation information may not contain the quality nor the frequency sufficient to produce competent estimates of reservoir properties. When dataset is complete then it is of good quality.

Using production figures investigation is effective and has reason within it as it consists reasonable reservoir characteristic, it however has its fair share of disadvantages such as that it does not entail an integrative technique that can accommodate results from many individual wells and does not have a process wellhead and bottom hole pressure figures in mature fields.

Decline Curve study is one of the methods used and it used as a temporary benchmark for estimating b. Those employing this method already know it is a mathematical technique used to forecast performance and it does not entail any physical basis. TCM uses a set of curves generated based on the value of b that was obtained from Decline Curve study.

Deconvolution does not apply in the examination of creation figures for Lower quality/ pressure information but it may provide significant diagnostic value for creation data. Incorrect estimates of the initial reservoir pressure and/or the wrong location of the pressure measurements can also yield significant inconsistencies, then, constant rate pressure response function cannot be solved.

This technique also has challenges facing it like it could be hard at times to reach to accurate estimate rates and pressure figures which are a necessity in this case. This becomes a challenge when flow rates fluctuate or depreciate suddenly causing pressure records to also fluctuate or depreciate and at the end result one is left dealing with figures that is inconsistent and not related.

There is the Single-Well Reservoir Simulation which is a step or method rather which uses history matching, creation records using a well and radial reservoir simulator. This is method more complicated than most since HM is not a straightforward method and one should go about it with sanity to ensure that by the end of it the results make physical sense.

The well completion history is an essential element of the examination process and must always be taken into account particularly for cases of recompletions, well simulations and major workovers. Production and reservoir engineering principles could clash during well simulation. Thus, performing well simulation very early in the completion history will minimize change in reservoir model.




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