Petrel 2013 – Product Technical Update

Petroleum Engineering and Reservoir Geomechanics

Kathryn Fletcher, Petrel RE Product Champion

Michele Anderson, Petrel PE Product Champion
Rob Marsden, Reservoir Geomechnics Product Champion
Agenda

Brief recap of pre-2013 Petrel RE& PE

Overview of Petrel 2013 RE& PE

Petrel 2013.1 RE & PE deliverables

Petrel 2013.x RE & PE overview

Q&A
 Recap of pre-2013 Petrel Reservoir and Production engineering
Fundamentals
engineering
Reservoir
engineering
Production
SIS Geomechanics
Petrel Reservoir Geomechanics

Defining the Reservoir Evaluating the Reservoir

Planning the Development

Monitoring and •Create 3D geomechanics models

Feed-Back • Evaluate changes with production ... 4D
• Update properties in the reservoir simulation
• Provide geomechanics input throughout E&P cycle

Accessing the Reservoir

Optimizing Performance

Producing the Reservoir

 Recap of pre-2013 Petrel Reservoir and Production engineering
Fundamentals
engineering
Reservoir
engineering
Production
 Overview of Petrel 2013.1 Reservoir and Production engineering
Fundamentals

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engineering
Reservoir
engineering
Production
 Increased workflow productivity for ECLIPSE users
“Now I need to

Challenge
plan the next
– To more easily carry out new engineering studies and update infill well”
existing simulation models.
– To transfer knowledge to the new generation of reservoir engineers

Solution
– Import and convert ECLIPSE cases into Petrel models
– Do optimization & study the impact of uncertainty using your native ECLIPSE deck
– Flexible interactive results charting

Benefits
– Collaborate optimally, regardless of experience, to advance your simulation workflows
for more confident decisions
– Efficient whole-field review of simulation output, and diagnosis of problem simulations
– Reduced time to prepare & create reports
 Release highlights – Fundamentals : precision
Fundamentals

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 Release highlights – Fundamentals : precision
Fundamentals

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Significant Figures
Maintain original simulation input value precision
Maintain precision and maintain compact output files
Maintain precision between different units
→ Correct simulation of dynamic reservoir
→ Model heterogeneity in shale reservoirs
 Release highlights – Fundamentals: performance
Eg1 Display 14000 wells in 3D Eg 2 Picking a cell in 3D Eg 3 Loading project with 200
window window (200 million cells) cases each with 100 steps
Fundamentals

3 6 25
2.5 5 20
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Time (min)

Time (min)
Time (sec)
4
1.5 15
3
1 10
2
0.5 5
1
0
0 0
Petrel 2012.1 Petrel 2013.1
Petrel 2012.1 Petrel 2013.1 Petrel 2012.1 Petrel 2013.1

Performance
Two target workflows profiled & bottlenecks improved
• Post processing
• Export of case to (INTERSECT) simulator
 Release highlights – Fundamentals: charting
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Results charting and analysis

• Cross plotting
• Well player
• Re-apply Study to new case or data
 Release highlights – Reservoir engineering
engineering
Reservoir
 Release highlights – Reservoir engineering
engineering
Reservoir

ECLIPSE environment
• Match SCHEDULE connection factor functionality
• Dynamic visualisation of well connections values
• Remove barriers to ECLIPSE case import : PATHS & SKIP
• Enable simulation uncertainty studies with Kr & Pc
 Access the best science to quantify uncertainty
How important is what I don’t know on

Challenge the decisions I need to make?

– Selection of representative geological models to take forward for dynamic

simulation
– Decide field development plans and single well designs

Solution
– Petrel Uncertainty, Production Forecasting optimization & History Matching
– MEPO with ECLIPSE for optimization & stand-alone history matching

Benefits
– Reduced risk
– Representative models that capture those key geological uncertainties that
impact production/recovery risks
– Optimized designs and plans that are robust to uncertainty
 Release highlights – Reservoir engineering
engineering
Reservoir

Field Management
• Parameterise your strategy for INTERSECT
• Use Sensitivity analysis to identify which
choices have the most impact
• Use Optimization & Optimization under
uncertainty to optimize your strategy to meet
your targets.
Disciplines working together on Well Deliverability
“We have hydrocarbons! Can I
get it up to surface?”

Challenge
– Optimizing the lift tables for each well in
brownfields for simulation

Solution
– Value-add features to the Well Deliverability
module such as flow correlation data matching,
injector VFP tables, user input IPR

Benefits
– A more representative and accurate VFP table for
each well, resulting in improved completion design
and simulation
 Release highlights – Well deliverability module
engineering
Production
 Release highlights – Well deliverability module
engineering
Production

Flow correlation data matching

• New process to optimize flow
correlation for a more accurate
VFP
• Match field data
• Auto – commit best match
 Release highlights – Well deliverability module
engineering
Production

Expanded VFP process

• VFP for injectors
• Gas lift and ESP sensitivities
• Workstep enabled
 Release highlights – Well deliverability module
engineering
Production

Expanded IPR functionality

• Fit for purpose
• User defined
• Multi-rate well test data
Production Reservoir Unconventionals
engineering engineering
Overview of Petrel 2013.2 RE & PE
 Reservoir Unconventionals
engineering
Reservoir engineering 2013.2
 Reservoir engineering 2013.2
Unconventionals

Mangrove 2013 plugin

Fracture design and Production forecasting for
hydraulically fractured wells

INTERSECT 2013.1 connector

Sliding sleeve workflow for FM and
engineering

INTERSECT
Reservoir

Faster INTERSECT case export

Import Field management
 Reservoir engineering 2013.2
engineering
Reservoir
 Reservoir engineering 2013.2
Pressures, temperatures, saturations
VISAGE
Reservoir simulation computes
stresses and
deformations for
embedded
Updated permeabilities
reservoir
(matrix and faults/fractures)

Reservoir geomechanics plugin

• Two way coupling

• LGRs around faults & wells
• Initialise model from Techlog wellbore
stresses
 Reservoir engineering 2013.2
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Reservoir

Reservoir geomechanics plugin

• New chalk model
• Improved visualization and interpretation
 Petrel Reservoir Geomechanics 2013
Main enhancements :
2-way coupling between VISAGE geomechanics simulator and ECLIPSE

Pressures, temperatures, saturations

VISAGE
Reservoir simulation computes
stresses and
deformations for
embedded
Updated permeabilities
reservoir
(matrix and faults/fractures)

• Enhanced Unified Chalk Model (ISAMGEO model) for creep/compaction

Petrel Reservoir Geomechanics 2013 (contd.)

• Improved visualization and interpretation,

including deformed surfaces and
formations (affecting well integrity)

• LGRs, providing increase model

resolution around faults, and around wells
for use in planning drilling, completions
and stimulation operations

• Model initialization using stresses at

wellbores (imported from Techlog)
 Petrel 2013.2 – Production analytics module
engineering
Production
 Petrel 2013.2 – Production analytics module
engineering
Production

Completion level data

• Updated OFM data connector
• Well level data splitting
• Well events
• Production track for Well section
window!
 Petrel 2013.2 – Production analytics module
engineering
Production

Production grid mapping

• Well level, completion and virtual data
• Process driven, play through time
• Select boundary from existing polygons
 Petrel 2013.2 – Production analytics module
engineering
Production

Production bubble mapping

• Well level, completion and
virtual data
• Process driven, play through
time
• Select from different styles –
bubble, bar or sphere
Production Reservoir Fundamentals
engineering engineering
Questions?

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