Maximising recovery of hydrocarbons from oil and gas fields represents responsible asset management and is extremely valuable both to the operator and the host country. Doing this successfully involves a complex combination of technical, commercial, organizational and human factors. This was addressed by developing the Reservoir Technical Limits (RTL™) process; the process and its application to oil fields was described in a 2009 SPE paper (109555). The present paper describes subsequent progress in developing RTL™, including a description of a new gas efficiency factor framework for use in volumetric and aquifer-drive reservoirs.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.