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Reservoir Management and Its Applications

Reservoir management aims to maximize profits from a reservoir by optimizing recovery while minimizing costs. It relies on integrating human, technological, and financial resources from exploration through abandonment. The goal is to obtain the maximum economic recovery possible based on geological, engineering, and economic knowledge. Key aspects include recovery optimization, infill drilling, water flooding, enhanced oil recovery methods, developing integrated teams, and reservoir development optimization to improve recovery rates and arrest production declines over the lifetime of the field. Case studies demonstrate how effective reservoir management can refresh older reservoirs and maximize production.

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Reservoir Management and Its Applications

Reservoir management aims to maximize profits from a reservoir by optimizing recovery while minimizing costs. It relies on integrating human, technological, and financial resources from exploration through abandonment. The goal is to obtain the maximum economic recovery possible based on geological, engineering, and economic knowledge. Key aspects include recovery optimization, infill drilling, water flooding, enhanced oil recovery methods, developing integrated teams, and reservoir development optimization to improve recovery rates and arrest production declines over the lifetime of the field. Case studies demonstrate how effective reservoir management can refresh older reservoirs and maximize production.

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Reservoir Management and

its Applications

PRSENTED BY(GROUP A)
ABHISHEK RANJAN GOGOI(PE-
181/18)
What is reservoir management?

• A dynamic process or an integrated approach to


control operation.
• It can be a key to success during the life of the
reservoir from the exploration to abandonment
stage.
• Reservoir Management relies on the use of available
resources (human, technological and financial)
• to maximize profits from a reservoir
• by optimizing recovery
• minimizing capital investments and operating
expenses.
• “The purpose of reservoir management is to
control operations to obtain the maximum
possible economic recovery from a reservoir on
the basis of facts, information and knowledge”

Thakur, 1996 - Chevron


• What kind of knowledge?
Production
Geology and engineering Reservoir
geophysics engineering

Design and
Gas and chemical
construction
engineering
engineering
RESERVOIR
MANAGEMENT
Environmental
Drilling and legal aspects

Production Economics and


operations Research and management
service labs
Aim:

MAXIMISE MINIMISE
VALUE COST

• Maximise recovery • CAPEX


• OPEX
• Recovery Technology • Tax
• People/team • Depreciation
• Reservoir knowledge/analysis
• Maximise value through…

Recovery
• Depending on Geology and Drive Mechanism

Solution gas drive 5-30%


Gas cap drive 20-40%
Water drive 35-75%
Gravity drainage 5-30%

• Can maximise value through improved recovery which


include IOR/EOR planning.
IOR/EOR planning
• It is not worthy that companies over
the world invest billions of dollars in
exploration of new areas, lefting a
major part of the oil trapped in the
known reservoirs.
• Primary recovery lies in the range of
30-40%, which means ample scope exists
for further exploitation.
IOR processes

Production enhancement Drilling / well


Secondary recovery Enhanced oil recovery
intervention methods

• Optimizing artificial lift • Infill/step-out drilling • Water flooding • Gas flooding – CO2
• Increasing well • Re-completion • Gas flooding • Condensate flooding
stimulation • Workover (immiscible) • Microbial (MEOR)
• Re-activating idle wells • Deepening • Surfactant (chemical)
• De-bottlenecking • Polymer
facilities • Thermal
Water Injection
• A part of IOR process
• Water is injected into the aquifer in
downdip injection wells.
• Assisting production by means of
pressure maintenance.
• Too little injection will not aid in
production. While too much might
lead to water breakthrough.
EOR
• Techniques for increasing the amount of crude oil that can be
extracted from a oilfield.
• Using EOR, 30-60% and more of the reservoir’s original oil can be
extracted.
• There are several techniques used in EOR method.
Enhanced Oil Recovery
CO2
Flooding

Chemical
Microbial
EOR EOR Flooding
(ASP)

Thermal
Flooding
Why IOR/EOR?
In OIL, a 5% increase of Recovery Factor
would result in
around 258 MMbo of additional oil reserves
----------
(OIL’s current Proved oil reserves stand at 278 MMbo)

GLOBALLY, a 1% increase of Recovery Factor


would result in
around 88 Bbo of additional oil reserves
(sufficient to replace three years of current world production )
Maximise value through…

People/teams
Synergy
Output of a synergistic team is larger than the sum of the
output of individuals.

Geo Geoph Engg Output

Geo
Output

Geoph Engg =
Field management plan
• Reservoir Management Strategy
- detailing the principles and objectives that the operator will hold
when making field management decisions and conducting field
operations
• Reservoir Monitoring Plan
- describing the data gathering and analysis proposed to resolve
existing uncertainties and understand dynamic performance during
development drilling and subsequent production
Reservoir Management Strategy
• DIME – Satter and Thakur, in 1994
• Developing
• Implementing
• Monitoring
• Evaluating
Maximise value through…

RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENT
OPTIMISATION
What do we mean by optimisation?
• Process of improving something
- to find the best compromise among several often
conflicting requirements.
- maximising value, minimising risk/impact, lowering cost.
- Integrated solution in complex systems
Effective Reservoir Management
• Case study 1 – NHK 79 Block
Case study 2 – NHK 41 + 54 Block (Zaloni)
Effective Reservoir management
• In both the cases shown in the ppt previously, it was seen that the
production rate was in a state of decline.
• Using effective reservoir management by planning optimum IOR
methods, the decline was arrested, and in the case of NHK 79 block,
the reservoir was refreshed to production levels of 30 years ago.
• These cases highlight the role of effective reservoir management in
maximizing production and recovery.
Failure of Reservoir management Program
• Reasons are-

• Unintegrated system or unintegrated team


• Starting too late
• Lack of maintenance
• Personnel changes
• Lack of documentation
Applications:
• In geothermal reservoirs or any other reservoir systems
• Reservoir management is important when significant choices must be
made.
• Develop plans for maximising the recovery efficiency
• Estimate the rise and fall of economy.
• Looks into environmental impacts.
• Pressure monitoring for optimum production.
• In IOR/EOR planning.
Thank you

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