This article is based on field data obtained after seven sessions of bottom-hole zone treatment (BHZT) that were performed in horizontal wells in 2013 and featured fresh water and degassed oil injection for the purpose to restrict the amount of produced breakthrough gas.
This article includes the results of monitoring the performance of the wells before and after the BHZT. It contains information about a new approach to assessment of the well intervention techniques (WIT) with consideration of the effect of decreasing the amount of produced breakthrough gas. The article also contains brief information about other methods of eliminating gas breakthroughs applied by OOO "LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft".
Recent advances in development of hardware for reservoir monitoring have caused rapid changes in production logging and testing techniques for instrumented wells. On-demand actuations of downhole valves and data acquisition from the downhole gauges remain available well into the useful well life due to improved reliability of the downhole equipment. A specific layout of the gauges could be tailored to support various types of production logging, and pressure transient and production tests1,2. Instead of the often costly one-off surveys required for a the non-instrumented wells, both data gathering and interpretation become part of a continuous surveillance cycle for an instrumented, "intelligent" well. The resulting exhaustively sampled data sets from instrumented wells are typically very large and require substantial cleansing and cross-calibration with a range of physical models as well as empirical trends to extract valuable information encoded in the data3. Most of these workflows also support decision making in real time.
The paper outlines practical ways of combining known well-testing principals with the modern downhole completion instrumentation to estimate production rate, productivity index, and reservoir pressure using surveillance workflows for a multi-zone intelligent completion in the Korchagina field, Russia. Data from permanent downhole pressure gauges supports a number of real-time workflows including those for zonal rate and productivity allocation. Sequential valve cycling can be interpreted as a multi rate inflow test and, when combined with initial well test data, can calibrate the rate allocation procedure. Meeting production goals for each of the zones requires a real-time optimization technique for setting the valve positions. The procedure was implemented in a form of automated surveillance software for pressure, rate, and productivity allocation and does not require shut-ins to obtain well test data.
This article is based on results of drilling wells in Yuri Korchagin field. Interpretation of the obtained data derived the conclusions that will help to stake future wells in better geological conditions and minimize risks during construction of wells.
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