Making Our Mature Fields Smarter—An Industrywide Position Paper from the 2005 SPE Forum

Abstract

TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax 01-972-952-9435. Abstract This paper summarizes the findings of the SPE Forum held in September 2005 on "Making our Mature Fields Smarter".

An automation system for gas-lifted oil wells: Model identification, control, and optimization

“…Future work will be geared towards incorporating compressor facilities, considering pressure constraints, and developing procedures to start and shut down oil wells. The long-term goal is to deliver unmanned platforms and foster the smart fields and GeDIg technologies (Murray et al, 2006;Moisés et al, 2008).…”

“…The growing demand for fossil fuels is compelling the oil industry to operate oil fields in more innovative ways (DeVries, 2005;Murray et al, 2006). To match the challenge, the smart fields technology is employing a suite of skills, workflows, and technologies to optimize production of oil fields in the long run (Williams and Webb, 2007).…”

Compressor scheduling in oil fields

“…Smart Fields technology (Murray et al 2006;Yeten et al 2004) advocates the use of downhole sensors and flow control devices to operate a reservoir more efficiently, reduce the intervention of human operators, and ultimately increase oil recovery. On the one hand, the industry is implementing pilot projects to gain insights and demonstrate its potential, while academia is developing models and algorithms to further this technology.…”

Assessing the Accuracy of History-Match Predictions and the Impact of Time-Lapse Seismic Data: A Case Study for the Harding Reservoir

“…This places a major emphasis on the efficient use of people and resources to detect the 4D signals and mitigate the outcome. 3 One efficient way of anticipating future reservoir performance and evaluating prediction uncertainty is to have a portfolio of potential modelled outcomes. This strategy requires a search for a range of alternative history matches, with some subset of these alternative models typically providing reasonably accurate forecasts for the reservoir.…”