REVOLUSIONER BEST PRACTICE:

INFILL PLACEMENT STRATEGY IN HIGH WATER

CUT AREA TO RECOVER MORE RESERVE: CASE
STUDY OF MATURE FILEDS, WK PHE

Pepi Sahal Mustafid

Subsurface Development PHE

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Presentation Outline

 Overview
 Currently Mature Field Issues (WK PHE)
 Revolusioner Best Practice: Infill Placement Strategy
 Case Study of PHE Field: ZAMZAM Field
 Conclusion

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Overview

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Currently Mature Field Issues (WK PHE)

High Water Cut

Commingle Multi-Zona
Recovery Factor (RR)
Production below Target

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Revolusioner Best Practice: Infill Placement
Strategy
SURVEILLANCE

1. Re-organize database
2. Fluid character checking
3. Production plotting in depth map
4. Iso-water cut mapping
5. Fluid performance investigation
6. Well history analysis
7. M-Bal vs In-Place balancing
We are here
9. Production juxtaposition / cross section analysis

RE-MAPPING
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 CASE STUDY OF PHE MATURE FIELDS

- ZAMZAM Field: High water cut paradigm to low water cut un-drain

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ZAMZAM Field: Inventory the issues

• Well position in depth structure map is not correlated

with fluid performance (O/W/F)
• Water cut performance is not controlled by up-dip /
down dip location (un-uniform water cut)
• Low API (20-25 degree of API) and high viscosity (40 cp)
• Any possibilities of the water influx has been working
from bottom as the original contact, bottom per body
cycle or edge
• Any gas cap expansion phenomena (gas lock issue)
• The most of wells in back reef area have not good fluid
performance
• The OOIP have range uncertainty due to high
heterogeneities impact of carbonate reservoir

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ZAMZAM Field: Well Placement Strategy
• Big OOIP from in-house study and confirmed by static and reservoir simulation
• As heavy oil field and have high viscosity oil character
• Zonation in carbonate ZAMZAM is divided into 5 zone. Zone 1 (upper part) as good oil pay and much remaining reserve
• The reservoir heterogeneities in carbonate ZAMZAM was divided into 8 RRT (reservoir rock typing). Good RRT is RRT-1 until RRT-4
• Proven than water source come from bottom through vuggy connectivity, RRT-5 until RRT-6 and edge water. No Fracture issue!
• There are un-drain area in between high water cut existing wells (5 proven and 48 infill wells candidate opportunity)

Saturation Water (Sw) Current

Infill well placement strategy :
 Use well path design horizontally
 Well spacing is 150-200 m
 Hit the pay target at zone 1 (RRT1-RRT4)
 Avoid vuggy connectivity
 Always consider critical rate
 Avoid gas lock effect (ESP)

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ZAMZAM Field Drilling Result

Proven!
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- Get zero WC and many infill wells candidate (48 wells)
Conclusion
 Currently mature field issues in WK PHE are high water cut, commingle multi-zone, recovery factor
(remaining reserve area) and production below target
 The revolusioner best practices before extra effort to recommend survaillance dan re-mapping are:
1. Re-organize database
2. Fluid character checking
3. Production Plotting in Depth Map
4. Iso-water cut mapping - Art of engineer creativity
5. Fluid performance investigation - Journey of experience

6. Well history analysis

7. M-Bal vs In-Place balancing
8. Production juxtaposition analysis
 Use the graphic, table, sketch, block diagram, rough notes, color map, cross section to get breakthrough
idea !
 Keep spirit I: optimist, positive view, aware to the risks and ready for mitigation plan
 Keep spirit II: comprehensive in evaluation, understand big picture and detail to solve problem, integration,
combine between theory, fact, experience and insting

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to thank the respective management of Director Development (Mr.
Afif Saifudin) dan VP Subsurface Development (Mr. Rahmat Wijaya) for permission to
publish this work and Subsurface Development Team – PHE Holding for your support.
Acknowledgments are also given to the AP PHE for their data to the outcome.

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