OLGA the Dynamic Multiphase Simulator

Dynamic Well Simulation, application areas and benefits using Transient Well Flow Simulations OLGA for Wells
John Sundt
Senior Vice President, SPT Group

OLGA application areas and

Wells Well Control Flow Assurance

Engineering Operation

Steady State Workflow

OLGA

Engineering
Integration

Operation

Integrated Solutions Online Monitoring & Optimization

Training OTS

Well Control
20 years of Well control simulation with OLGA

Well Control

Well control specific interface for OLGA, (OLGA ABC)

Well Control
Essential part of emergency response planning
Blowout rate estimation Relief well design Bull heading Dynamic kill parameters
Kill Rate Pump Pressures and capacity

Well Control

OLGA for Wells

Wells

Well interface to OLGA Workflow and functionality for Dynamic simulation of well scenarios Near Wellbore simulator ROCX

Subsea and offshore Wells

High cost
Costly to work-over High reliability required

Subsea wells have lower recovery rates

Phenomena requiring dynamic modeling

A well can be a single flow path

Vertical

Slanted

Horizontal

Undulating

but can also be a complicated network

Multi-string

Multi-zone

Multi-lateral

Smart

Accurate performance modeling of the flow control equipment/devices

Flow Control
Choke Check valve ESP and PDP Gravitational separator ESD SCSSV Gas-lift valves ICV and ICD DIACS Sliding sleeves Slotted liner Sand screen

Controllers

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Inflow performance relationship

Linear and non-linear mass-based IPR Constant Productivity Index Vogel equation
Saturated oil reservoir Saturated reservoir (oil/gas)

Bottomhole flowing pressure

Q
Reservoir variables

Normalized Backpressure Saturated oil wells Backpressure equation

Gas wells Low pressure gas wells High pressure gas wells

PR PI

Forcheimer model
S

Single Forcheimer model

Time
Water Saturation
0
0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8

User tabulated IPRs Quasi-dynamic inflow performance

PR, TR, PI, k-h, S, D, n-C, GOR, WC etc are available as time series for input

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ROCX, Near Wellbore simulator

Z (Depth)

40

60

80

100 0 0.5 1 1.5 2

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Some examples

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Unloading Gas Lifted Well

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Well Clean-up / Start-up

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Clean-up to Host
Host

Well head

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Completion Stinger Design

200.0

199.5
200.0

(bara) pressure flowing Wellbore (bara) pressure Wellbore flowing pressure (bara) flowing Wellbore

199.0
199.5

198.5 200.0
199.0

198.0 199.5
198.5

197.5 199.0
198.0

Completion design 1: cemented and perforated casing Completion design 2: cemented and perforated casing + passive stinger Completion design 3: cemented and perforated casing + active stinger

197.0 198.5
197.5

196.5 198.0
197.0

Completion design 1: cemented and perforated casing Completion design 2: cemented and perforated casing + passive stinger Completion design 3: cemented and perforated casing + active stinger
0 250 500 750 1000 1250 1500 Completion design 1: cemented and perforated casing 1750 2000 2250 2500

196.0 197.5
196.5

Completion design 2: cemented and perforated casing + passive stinger

Distance from heel (m)

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Production optimization/ Procedures

Gas Lift Rate
Gas Lift Annulus: ID=0.216 m Depth: 2840 m Pipe: ID=8, length 4.6km

Riser: ID:8, depth: 120 m

Tubing: ID=0.1143 m

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Modeling wells in OLGA has become easy. example; Dry-tree well geometry

in minutes!

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Gas lift valves and ESPs in OLGA

in seconds!

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Gas lift valves and ESPs in OLGA

In seconds!

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Application areas

Well Flow Assurance

Hydrate Wax

of transient well flow simulations

Heavy Oil

Well Flow Dynamics

Drilling Hydraulics

Well Integrity
Annulus Pressure Management

Completion Design Leakage Cleanup Well Testing Artificial Lift Gas Well Deliquification Horizontal & Multilaterals Well-Pipeline Interaction Well-Reservoir Interaction Injection CO2 Storage SAGD Erosion Corrosion Equipment Integrity Temperature Well Control

Well Surveillance
DTS PLT Online/Offline Soft Sensing Water Monitoring
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Publications: more than 70 papers published

OLGA-for-Wells papers - yearly statistics (1990~)
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General

11 10 9

Control and Optimisation

Validation
Near-Wellbore

Number of papers

Liquid Loading
Flow Assurance

7 6

Transient Operation
Sluging

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Artificial Lift
Well Testing

3 2 1
0
1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2010

Cleanup
Smart Wells

Well Control
Drilling

Year
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Summary of Values
Dynamic simulation has proven value throughout the wells life cycle
Planning & Design Start-up Production optimization / trouble shooting

For Operators
Reduced risk, increased production and reduced down time

For Service Companies

New service offers and value added solutions

For Engineering companies

Extending Flow assurance to include the well and near wellbore Offering further value to your client base using familiar tools

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be dynamic
Thank you for your attention and

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