Group Project

Production Engineering II
STT MIGAS BALIKPAPAN
2014
NONREGULER
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General Information
An oil reservoir is considered as weak water drive
reservoir, produces from 5 vertical wells. The
reservoir structure has been well developed based on
geological model including the position of each well
in the reservoir.
All wells are producing from the same production
layer, and the wells location had been selected using
production optimization criteria.
The reservoir model with 5 production wells is run in
the reservoir simulator, for 3000 - 4000 days, and
produce production performance for each well.
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Well Data
Well #

Depth (ft)

T @ Depth

Well #1

3000.00

200.00

Well #2

2800.00

190.00

Well #3

2750.00

188.00

Well #4

2500.00

176.00

Well #5

2900.00

195.00

Rock and Fluid Properties

The wells produce 35o API of oil and the gas specific
gravity is 0.8. The water specific gravity is 1.07
Porosity, permeability, and relative permeability curves,
and also oil and gas properties as function of pressure all
are input parameters to the reservoir simulator, which are
not included in this information.
The reservoir is considered heterogeneous, and these
conditions are reflected that the well production
performances are not similar.

Well Production Performances

The results of simulation produce well production
performance, that consists of:

Reservoir pressure vs time

Bottom hole pressure vs time
Well production rate vs time
Gas Liquid Ratio vs time
Water cut vs time

Based on these production performance plots, the well

productivity of each well could be predicted
The following slides show each well production performance
from the reservoir simulator.
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Well #1

Well #2

Well #3

Well #4

Well #5

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Problem Statements (1)

The results of reservoir simulation are obtained
based on certain production constraint, that is
constant liquid (oil and water) production.
Therefore, the well production performance
affected by the changing of reservoir conditions in
the area of well drainage.
The oil cumulative production, as well as
cumulative field production could be obtained
from the reported well production performance
plots.
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Problem Statements (2)

Since the well production performances are
obtained from reservoir simulator, the production
performance which are considering the well and
surface facilities were not included.
The purpose of this project is to design complete
well production system, starting from the reservoir
up to separator. The well production system is
assumed simple configuration, that consists of
reservoir, tubing, choke, flow line, and separator
for each well.
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Problem Statements (3)

Therefore for 5 wells, there would be 6 flow lines
(well head to manifold) and end up in one separator.
The working separator and the separator capacity are
part of the over all design of the oil field production
system. In determining the separator capacity the total
production rate of 5 wells, the projection of total field
production rate in the future should be considered.
The build the flowline network, the distance and the
flowline diameter from wellhead to separator could
be assumed or optimized.
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Problem Statements (4)

The first assignment is about the design of production
system, that consists of reservoir with 5 production
wells.
Determine the production capacity of the oil field at
the initial reservoir or wells condition. In this design,
tubing is installed up to top of formation and it is
assumed equal to the given depth of the well. The
tubing size in each well become one of parameter
design, therefore sensitivity analysis should be
conducted and select the tubing size that would be last
lasted for the whole year of production.
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Problem Statements (5)

Determine the future production of each well, by
applying appropriate future IPR equation. In this
case, Nodal System Analysis should consider the
Water Cut, GOR, GLR, and reservoir pressure at
certain production time.
The calculation of pressure drop in the tubing to
determine tubing performance curves, and
pressure drop in the flowline should taking into
account the appropriate values of water cut, and
GLR at the time of analysis.
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Problem Statements (6)

For each well, determine the time or the
reservoir pressure, where each well reach noflow condition.
Plot flow rate vs time of each well until no-flow
condition is reached.
Those plots will be used later to determine
artificial lift method that will be applied to
maintain the wells in production. This assignment
will be continued when the course materials
discusse about the artificial lift method.
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Thank You

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