A Tool for Achieving the Base Production Potential

Abstract

The achievement of the well potential in the majority of Russian oil companies is monitored on an advisory basis using low-integrated approaches and tools. These processes are not automated enough [1]. As a result, 80% of the labor is spent on performing routine operations: collecting and preparing input data for analysis. This leads to suboptimal and untimely decisions to manage the development of current assets, and consequently, to lost production, increased water cut, an increase in the time to achieve the estimated oil recovery factor (oil RF), and unproductive injection into induced fractures. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to develop a decision support tool for a reservoir engineer. This paper describes the methods and functionality of the tool used to achieve the potential of the base production, which makes it possible to automatically, systematically and efficiently formulate recommendations for injection control, to select wells that are optimal for conversion to injection, to select candidates for treatment of the bottomhole zone, remedial cementing, well logging, and flow tests.