| Optimising well-reservoir contact | Improving the sweep efficiency to flooding | Imnporving displacement efficiency | Optimising the flowrates | Optimising the wellbore completion and lift mechanism | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drilling new wells | Hydraulic fracturing | Stimulation | ||||
The above activities are further classified into four execution mechanisms:
| Subsurface | Surface | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Drilling & Completion | Workover | Rate Optimisation | EOR facilities and procedures |
This leads to the four major asset challenges:
1. Where to drill the new well or side-track and how to complete it ? 2. Which wells to workover and how ? 3. Which wells to change the flow rate and whether increase or decrease ? 4. What fluid to inject ? 6. If there is a bottle neck in surface infrastructure and whether it needs update ? |
The answers to these questions are provided by playing the various scenarios over the calibrated full-field flow model.
Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Production / Subsurface Production