A Production Optimization System for Western Prudhoe Bay Field, Alaska

Barnes, David A.; Humphrey, Kathryn; Muellenberg, L.

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“…It was determined optimal allocation of lift-gas to wells subject to multiple gas constraints at Kuparuk River field (Stoisits et al, 1992(Stoisits et al, , 1999). Short-term production optimization WPOM was applied in the Prudhoe Bay field of the North-Slope of Alaska, and to long-term reservoir development studies for two fields in the Gulf of Mexico was applied and its result demonstrated the effectiveness of the approach (Barnes et al, 1990, Stoisits et al, 1999, Wang, 2003. Continuous gas-lift method was employed in offshore operations (Clegg et al, 1993).…”

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“…It was presented the Western Production Optimization Model (WPOM) for the Prudhoe Bay field. This model maximizes oil production while minimizing the need for gas processing that allocates the oil rate and gas rate to surface facilities and wells based on the "incremental gas oil ratio (GOR)" concept (Barnes et al, 1990, Wang, 2002. It has been reported that (Litvak et al 1997) an integrated reservoir and gathering system model of the Prudhoe Bay field, and employed various heuristic methods to optimize well connections to manifolds.…”

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Evaluation of natural gas production optimization in Kailashtila gas field in Bangladesh using decline curve analysis method

Shah

Hossain

2015

Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res.

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Decline curve analysis of well no KTL-04 from the Kailashtila gas field in northeastern Bangladesh has been examined to identify their natural gas production optimization. KTL-04 is one of the major gas producing well of Kailashtila gas field which producing 16.00 mmscfd. Conventional gas production methods depend on enormous computational efforts since production systems from reservoir to a gathering point. The overall performance of a gas production system is determined by flow rate which is involved with system or wellbore components, reservoir pressure, separator pressure and wellhead pressure. Nodal analysis technique is used to performed gas production optimization of the overall performance of the production system. F.A.S.T. Virtu Well™ analysis suggested that declining reservoir pressure 3346.8, 3299.5, 3285.6 and 3269.3 psi(a) while signifying wellhead pressure with no changing of tubing diameter and skin factor thus daily gas production capacity is optimized to 19.637, 24.198, 25.469, and 26.922 mmscfd, respectively.

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Evaluation of natural gas production optimization in Kailashtila gas field in Bangladesh using decline curve analysis method

Shah

Hossain

2015

Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res.

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“…A way of handling a gas compression constrained field under gas coning conditions was proposed by Barnes et al [7]. The method is able to handle wells where the incremental gas oil ratio (IGOR) is monotonically increasing with the oil rate.…”

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Real-Time Production Optimization of Offshore Oil and Gas Production Systems: A Technology Survey

2006

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TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractThe information flow used for optimization of an offshore oil production plant is described. The elements in this description include data acquisition, data storage, processing facility model updating, well model updating, reservoir model updating, production planning, reservoir planning, and strategic planning. Methods for well allocation, gas lift and gas/water injection optimization and updating of the models are reviewed in relationship with the information flow described. Challenges of real time optimization are discussed.

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“…These can be classified into three categories: (1) sensitivity analysis using simulation tools, (2) heuristic methods, and (3) mathematical programming methods. For example, Barnes et al 4 and Stoisits et al 5 have studied the problem of allocating limited amount of available gas-to-gas lift wells using heuristic rules, which have been developed based on single well analysis. Martinez et al 6 and Buitrago et al 7 applied various mathematical programming techniques such as quasi-Newton and genetic algorithms.…”

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Optimization of Oil Production Based on a Capacitance Model of Production and Injection Rates

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Liang

Edgar

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Proceedings of Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium

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fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractThis paper presents a methodology to optimize the value of oil produced by adjusting the water injection rates in a mature field.The reservoir is considered to be a multi-well input-output system with the injection rates as the inputs and production rates as the outputs. A simple capacitance model based on control volume of a given producer is fitted to total injection/production data obtained from a three dimensional reservoir simulator. A power law relationship models the instantaneous water-oil ratio as a function of the cumulative water injected. An optimization problem for oil production is formulated to optimize future performance, where oil production rates and water injection rates are optimized simultaneously based on the selling price of the oil produced and the cost of water injected or the disposal cost of water produced.The simulation results show that the simple capacitance model satisfactorily captures the long-time behavior between injectors and producers. The solution of the constrained optimization problem for oil production using nonlinear programming can maximize the future economic return of the reservoir asset. Various patterns of optimal injection are followed under different revenue objectives. The optimal injection rates depend on the cost of water injected/disposed, which leads to some wells being shut in while other wells operate at their maximum values.The proposed optimization method can be used for realtime production control and is appropriate for simultaneous optimization of well rates in a field where injectors are shut-in frequently.

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A Production Optimization System for Western Prudhoe Bay Field, Alaska

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Evaluation of natural gas production optimization in Kailashtila gas field in Bangladesh using decline curve analysis method

Evaluation of natural gas production optimization in Kailashtila gas field in Bangladesh using decline curve analysis method

Real-Time Production Optimization of Offshore Oil and Gas Production Systems: A Technology Survey

Optimization of Oil Production Based on a Capacitance Model of Production and Injection Rates

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