WellFlo

Feature Presentation

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Wellflo

Nodal Analysis
Software

Reservoir
 Nodal Analysis

Outflow

Inflow

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 Key Features

• Production and Injection wells for all reservoir types

– Black Oil, Condensate, Volatile Oil and Dry Gas
– Vertical and Horizontal
• Choice of Black Oil PVT Correlations and Equation of State Based
Compositional PVT with Tuning Functionality
• Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR) Models
– Vogel, Fetkovich, Normalized Pseudo-Pressures, etc
• Choice of Flow Correlations for Pressure Drop Calculations
– Beggs and Brill, Duns and Ros, OLGAS, etc
• Flow Assurance
– Hydrate, Wax and Asphaltene

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 WellFlo: Tuning

• Flow Correlations
– OLGAS : Mechanistic Model
– Tuning
• Multiple Flow Gradient Survey Datasets
• Simultaneous Tuning of Multiple Flow Correlations

• IPR Tuning
– Multiple Production Well Test Datasets
– IPR model tuning using one or more test data sets
• Reservoir Pressure
• Permeability
• Skin
• Vogel Coefficient
• Productivity Index (J)

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 WellFlo : Gas Lift and ESP

• Design
 Database of Gas Lift Valves, Pumps and Motors
• Performance Analysis
 Troubleshooting
• Advanced Gas Lift Valve Modelling and Optimisation

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 Horizontal Well

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 Equation of State Based Compositional PVT

• PVTFlexTM : PVT Software Application

• Fluid Data Pre-Processing
• Plus Fraction Characterization Including Pseudo Component Generation
• Common Fluid Description
– Mixing of Fluids

• Choice of Equations of State

– Including Peng Robinson and SRK (with Peneloux Volume Shifts)

• Tuning of EoS using typical lab data

– CCE, CVD, DL, Separator Data

• Multi-fluid multi-experiment tuning algorithm based on non-linear regression

– Tuning Parameters
– Different weights to different Experiments

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 Flow Assurance Calculations

• Alliance with Infochem Ltd, UK

– Hydrate, Wax and Asphaltene modules available in their “Multiflash”
Software
– Customer base : Around the world including many multi-national
companies
• Implementation
– Seam-less Integration with Engineering Applications
• No need to copy & paste data to and from another application
– Available for Compositional as well as Black oil PVT
• Black oil PVT data is translated to compositional form
– In-situ fluid composition is used for the calculations
• Easy analysis above and below the gas injection point

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 PVTflex : Flow Assurance Calculations

Simulated Pressure &

Temperature Profile For
Monthly Production
Well Test using Wellflo

Evaluate possibility of
hydrate formation in
the well.

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 Hydrate Curve and PT Profile

Hydrate Can this

Region hydrate
formation
avoided?

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 Hydrate Inhibitor Management

Hydrate 25 vol % Choice of Industry

Region Standard Inhibitors
Methanol
with Available for
Analysis
Inhibitor
• Methanol
• Ethanol
• MEG
• DEG
• TEG

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 WellFlo: PCP and Jet Pumps

• PCP
– Operating Point Analysis

• Jet Pump
– Analysis
– Design
• List of all Suitable Pump combinations

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 PCP: Performance Curve

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 Jet Pump : Design Functionality

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 Well Performance Server – Wellflo Integration

ReO RFC i-DO Matbal MS Excel LOWIS

Open Interface Layer WPS

Wellflo Calculation Engine

Wellflo Graphic User Interface (.NET Technology)

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 Case Study

• Operator : ONGC (one of the major operators from India)

• Field : Heera (Offshore of Mumbai)
• 5 Processing Platforms + 14 Remote Satellite Wellhead
Platforms
• 120 Wells
– Naturally Flowing
– Gas lifted
• Total Production
– Oil: ~ 50,000 BPD
– Gas Oil Ratio: 120 m3/m3
– Water Cut: 55%
• SPE 101089 : Presented in SPE AP Conf in Sept 2006

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 Project Objectives

• Build Wellflo Models for every well in the field

• Calibrate Well Models
• Perform Lift Optimization using Wellflo
• Knowledge Transfer (WellFlo)
• Model Update and Workflow Processes

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 Well Modeling Study : Results

• Gas Lift Redesign /

Optimization potential: Lift Gain (~100+BOPD) Potential Well

300

– 22 Candidates with more

than 50 BOPD uplift
200

Oil Gain (Stb/d)

– 5 candidates require only
gas lift rate optimization 100

– 17 candidates for gas lift

redesign 0

HT-10
HC-5

HSA-2#

HB-12

HSB-2
HD-10

HC-3

HC-2

HSB-5

HSB-1

HSA-1
HF-10#
• 12 candidates with Well Name

potential gain of more

than 100 BOPD (top
priority)

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 WellFlo Customers

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