The primary focus of a wells, reservoir and facilities management team is to guaranty shareholders value by improving production and optimize recovery. Several best practices abound in the industry to achieve this goal. Some screening criteria are used during integrated field reviews to benchmark identified opportunities and rank/select viable candidates for execution. This screening criteria includes: economic ranking, reserves, doability and regulatory policies. The resulting unconventional study allows for a better reservoir management plan. This paper presents an integrated methodology utilized to restore oil production for a brown field via gaslift project. This was applied in the NAMUB Field case and the information obtained can be applied on other fields with similar scenarios. In the case of NAMUB field, the estimation of the incremental oil resource volume was estimated using Material Balance models that are calibrated with pressure data and history matched. The field did not meet up with conventional screening criteria for Gaslift Project. This is due to technical, non-technical and economic reasons. The field studied is composed of stacked reservoirs that have not had oil production for about ten years. Therefore, it was pertinent that a project had to be executed to restore/ carry out oil rim development. This was further made expedient due to the gas cap blowdown of the reservoirs. The continuous gas development impacted on the recovery of oil and further eroded oil resource volume. This integrated study comprised of Surface Engineering disciplines, Petroleum Engineering/ Geoscience disciplines, Economists and Business Planners. The outcome of inter-reservoir communication studies and sensitivity analyses was integrated to manage uncertainties leading to robust outcomes. The results obtained were not benchmarked against any previous one, as this was a unique step out scenario the company had to deal with. The performance of the 5 wells will be monitored against actual production to validate the methods and processes adopted in this study. The integrated approach used in the study across the diverse disciplines allowed for seamless delivery of the project.
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