2008 Ryder Scott Reserves Conference

Evaluation Challenges in a Changing World

Tools for Evaluation

A Review of the SOS Software
Scott Wilson-Sr. VP., Ryder Scott Company
Tools for Evaluation :
A review of the SOS Software

A Suite of Windows based

Petroleum Engineering programs
originally developed by ARCO from 1980-2000

Reservoir Surveillance and Prediction.

Production Engineering.
Integrated databases and custom features.
Easiest way to provide technology advances to
operations staff.
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Core Programs
Forecast Multi-Trend Decline Analysis

ProCast Gas Field Deliverability Forecasting

SNAP Nodal Analysis and Artificial Lift

PTA Pressure Transient Analysis

Tank Graphical Material Balance

EPEC Excel Based P.E. Functions

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Low Usage Programs

Wellbore Wellbore Schematics

BeamPump Rod Pump Analysis

BubbleMap Time Variable Bubble mapping

Patternflood Waterflood Pattern Balancing

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Growth Period 1980-1998

Designed and developed by
ARCO Engineers and Specialist
programmers.
An 18 year effort by a 5-10 person team.
Specifically customized to meet
demonstrated operating district needs.
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Harvesting Period 1998-2000

Outsourced to Dwights and Geographix.
Suite broken into freestanding tools.
Formally abandoned when
BP acquired ARCO.

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Maintenance & user funded enhancements

Starting in 2000

RSC acquired the rights to maintain and

distribute the programs in 2000.
Specialized Oilfield Software (SOS)
registered users growing 2-5 users / day.
Licenses are provided free to clients.
Significant enhancements funded each year
by BP, ConocoPhillips, Petroskills, others.
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Company Distribution Country Distribution

0 5 10 15 20 25
Registered Users
BP 1 10 100 1000

ConocoPhillips USA
Devon Energy Corp. Canada
Apache Corp. Indonesia
Dominion E&P, Inc. India
Chesapeake Energy Corp. Argentina
Chevron Corp. Malaysia
ConocoPhillips Canada United Kingdom
Repsol YPF Australia
Saudi Aramco Russia
Vico Indonesia Colombia
New field Exploration Co. Egypt

Niko Resources Ltd. Venezuela

Petro-Canada
Pakistan
Trinidad and Tobago
Weatherford
Ecuador
Aera Energy LLC
Saudi Arabia
Edge Petroleum Corp.
Vietnam
EnCana Corp.
China
Oil India Ltd.
Romania
Samson
Mexico
St. Mary Land & Exploration Co.
Kazakhstan
Sw ift Energy Co.
Libya
TNK-BP
Denmark
BP Alaska Turkey
Khalda Petroleum Co. Spain
Nance Petroleum Corp. Japan
New field Exploration The Netherlands
Pertamina Nigeria
Petrom S.A. France
Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd Thailand
Petroproduccion Algeria
PetroSantander Inc. Oman
Prize Petroleum Company Ltd. Myanmar
Questar Exploration & Production Russian Federation
Rally Energy Corp. Brazil

Venoco, Inc. United Arab Emirates

W&T Offshore, Inc. Bulgaria

Bolivia
Whiting Petroleum Corp.

950 Registered users as of early 2008 7

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Approximately 2500 total users

coordinators, training licenses not tracked through registration

Large User Coordinators : Single Point of Contact (SPOC)

ConocoPhillips : Tom Nations, Grant Dornan, David Lagerlef
BP : Erin Authier- OBrien, Scott LaVoie (SLB)
Exxon Mobil : Juan Ulibari
Cimarex : Eddie Fetkovitch
Questar Market Resources : Chuck Stanley (?)
Weatherford : Toby Pugh

5-6 University Licenses Managed By Professors

Hundreds of Petroskills Nodal School Students

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 Forecast Multi-Trend Decline Analysis
The first system to model multi-trend Declines

Six different Forecasting Options

Arps in 4 mouse clicks
P/Z & Decline synchronization
WOR-Cum
GOR-Cum
Drilling Schedule / Type-well planning
Import Dwights Data, cut and paste, or
ODBC link directly to Client Databases
Used to monitor 500,000 bopd at Prudhoe and Kuparuk

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 PROCAST Integrated Gas Field Planning
An integrated Nodal/Network forecasting system

Reservoir/well/facility rate forecasting

Spreadsheet and Network interfaces

nine well performance models

eight pipeline/tubing hydraulics models

CBM Langmuir / Hydrate models

User defined design/analysis objects

Pipelines
Line Loops

Compressors
LNG Plants
NGL Processing

Pre-defined rates

Well performance

Flow Splitters

Platforms

Manifolds

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 S NAP Well Performance and Artificial Lift Analysis

A state of the art Nodal system

The standard gas lift design tool used by ConocoPhillips, BP, and soon Exxon

Consistently judged easier to learn and use than all other Nodal packages

Complex wellbores with up-casing/tubing and down-annular for multi-zones

Full featured multi-segment horizontal, multistage fractured wells, and PVT

Multi-zone completions with crossflow.

Deviated, stimulated, and partially penetrated

All meaningful Tubing Hydraulics correlations

Perforated & GP Completion effects

Relative permeability effects

User defined PVT and IPR N u S n a p D e f a u lt D a t a S e t . s n p - S im u la t o r T a b le O u t p u t : F T P - 5 0 0 . 0 0 0 W C U T - 0 . 0 0 0

Fully editable presentation quality graphics

Restriction and choke pressure drops Y ac heng 13-1 A 1 s tatic matc h

Res erv oir Data
Y c a11999matc h.s np
Dens ity = 12.000
Rate v s . Pres s ure
09-Feb-99 08:18:36
6549
6006
5463
Pres s ure = 5557 Perf Diam = 0.50 Depth (MD) = 12130 WHPres = 3379 4921
kh = 18676.0 Penetration = 8.00 Tubing I.D. = 6.184 (s 1) 4378
Skin = -1.00 3836
Links with fieldwide optimization models (Procast) 3293
2750
2208
6000 1665
Bottom Hole Pressure (psig)

1122
Critical lifting rates, mixture velocities, erosional 580

velocities, and PVT properties reported every 200 feet. 4000

Simulator Hydraulics table builder for Eclipse, 2000

VIP, PSIM, ACRES

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Custom database connections for loading test data, 0 40000 80000 120000 160000 200000 240000
Total Gas Rate (m scf/d)
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archiving datasets, and AI Batch troubleshooting.
 EPEC Excel Petroleum Engineering Calculator

Widely used Petroleum Engineering Utilities In Single-Cell functions

Features
Gas Well Heat Transfer Spreadsheet
0 100 200 300 400
INPUT: 0
variable: value: units: Comp mole %

9PVT properties (HP41 Fluids Pak) True V Depth

Flow ID
Roughness
SG gas
14500
2.75
0.00065
0.7
'TVD
inches
inches
(air = 1.00)
C1
C2
C3
C4
90
10
0
0
-2000

-4000
%H2S 0.00 % C5 0
- Z factor (CO2, H2S, N2) %CO2
%N2
3.50
0.00
%
%
C6
C7
0
0
-6000

Qg (+ for prod) 5000 mcfpd C8 0

-8000
- Viscosity P wh 1200
70
psi

9Utility Functions
Ambient Surface T Deg F
SI BHT 350 Deg F -10000
Heat Flux 0.992 btu/(hr-degf-ft) Est WHT = 54.25 F
heat cap 0.52 btu/(lb-degf) -12000
gas jt effect 0 deg/psi
From Component Analysis
- Table interpolation. Tc
Pc
380.7718 Deg R
674.8221 Psia total error 0 btu/hr
-14000

SG Gas 0.60233 (air = 1.00) Solve Tol. 500 btu/hr -16000

- Pressure Drops (static, 2, 3 phase). heat cap 0.51474 btu/(lb-degf) Solve Loops 1 loops

Depth Fraction depth Amb temp WB temp WB prs density length delt temp ave temp dif heat loss/hr heat gain/hr diff

- Text Parsing. 0 0 80 54 1200.00 5.531 145.0 -26 -18 -2574 -2574 0

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0.02 290 60 50 1213.87 5.902 217.5 -10 0 -11 -11 0
0.05 725 40 50 1235.11 6.386 362.5 10 20 7260 7260 0
0.1 1450 30 60 1270.63 6.743 362.5 30 34 12132 12132 0
0.15 2175 40 77 1305.53 6.531 362.5 37 36 13038 13038 0
0.2 2900 60 95 1339.51 6.141 725.0 35 34 24214 24214 0

9Functions are used in your spreadsheets. 0.3

0.5
0.7
4350
7250
10150
100
175
250
132
204
273
1405.09
1529.61
1648.46
5.601
4.991
4.632
1450.0
1450.0
1087.5
32
29
23
30
26
23
43701
37497
25277
43701
37497
25277
0
0
0
0.85 12325 300 324 1735.15 4.457 1087.5 24 12 12739 12739 0
1 14500 350 350 1821.18 4.444 0 0 0

Formation Volume Factor Gas Formation Volume Factor Viscosity Compressibility

& Solution GOR & Standing z Value
1.3 0.6 10 1 E-2
8 1.0
Bo Mu Oil C gas
(RB/STB)
1.2 6 1 E-3
Rs 0.4 1
Bo (Mscf/STB z (vol/vol) Viscosity
or 1.1 ) Rs Bg 4 0.9 z c 1 E-4 C oil
(cp) -1
Bw Mu Water (psi ) (apparent)
0.2 0.1 C oil (us)
1.0 2 1 E-5
Bw Bg Mu Gas
(RB/STB) (RB/Mscf) C water
0.9 0.0 0 0.8 0.01 1 E-6
0 1 2 3 4 5 0 2 4 6 0 2 4 6 0 2 4 6
Pressure (1000's of psia) Pressure (1000's of psia) Pressure (1000's of psia) Pressure (1000's of psia) 12
 PTA Pressure Transient Analysis
State-of-the-art Well Test Design and Analysis

Oil, Gas, or Water wells

Design and analysis options
drawdown, build-up,
injectivity, and fall-off testing.

Deliverability Analysis
Diagnostic Plots
Straight Line analysis
Manual Type Curve Matching
Automatic type curve matching
3-29-14-20 Pressure Build-up te st
100.00

Homogeneous (Storage and Skin)

Permeability [md] = 17 (Fixed)
Text and graphical reports :
Simple cut and paste capability
Skin [0] = -0.2 (Fixed) Calculated Pressure
East, No Flow [ft] = 2114 1.669e+004 Calculated Derivative
West, No Flow [ft] = 2114 1.669e+004
North, No Flow [ft] = 274.1 17.08
Measured Pressure
South, Const. Press. [ft] = 747 39.64 Measured Derivative
10.00
Radius of Investigation [ft] = 1377
10/23/06 11:37:03
PD and Derivative

1.00

0.10

0.1 1.0 10.0

tD/CD
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 PTA Pressure Transient Analysis
State-of-the-art Well Test Design and Analysis

Multiple Gauges with effectively infinite point count Gauge Selection/Manipulation

Gauge B
Gauge A
Gauge C
Gas FlowRate

3000 Well2 BU with

2700
interference

Rate(Mscf/D)
Pressure(psi)

2200

2000

Well1 BU 1700

with Pulse

1000 1200
0 50 100 150

Delta Time(hrs)

Simulation of full test sequence

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 TANK Material Balance Analysis and Forecasting

A comprehensive Material Balance Program

Oil, Gas, Aquifers

All common methods + Sills

An integrated set of analytical tools

Unique Outline Style user interface

Tank is a powerful analytical tool for reviewing and predicting the performance of combination drive oil and gas reservoirs. Tank
couples a general form of the material balance equation with a choice of analytical aquifer models, allowing it to handle a wide
range of hydrocarbon fluid types and reservoir drive mechanisms. Given a reservoirs performance history, Tank can be used to
estimate original hydrocarbons in place and aquifer size and strength. Once these parameters have been quantified, Tank may be
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used to review and predict reservoir and aquifer performance using a variety of analytical techniques.
Beampump, Bubblemap,
Patternflood, and Wellbore
Programs available for customization and implementation

Patternflood:
A map based plotting and material balance package
that balances voidage, influx, injection, and flux
through a fields waterflood patterns. Although data
input is significant, resulting pattern balancing
results can be used to more efficiently manage
waterflood injection and withdrawal. The functionality
in this program is superseded by both DSS and OFM.

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Near-term Plans
Maintain and improve viable programs.
Petroskills funded SI units upgrade to SNAP
Rebuild help files to be Windows Vista combatable.
Add steam lift for SAGD producers.
Confirm multi-stage fracture transient treatment in
complex wellbores.
Formalize relationships with
Weatherford (jet pumps) and Exxon (Gas Lift).
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Long-term Plans

Formalize business systems for managing

non-client (= paying) users.

Continue to build user base to increase ability to

maintain and organically grow program functionality.

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