Water injection is an essential part of brown oilfield development plan both of pressure maintenance or water production management. The high cost and often tight economic margins associated with injection wells capacity require that the chosen stimulation technique not only provides an effective result to maximize injection well capacity but also carries an acceptable risk in term of the project cost and safety. Many well known techniques, such as fracturing and matrix acidizing have been developed over the years to achieve this result and are common in most water injection well operations. The objective of this paper is to show a new approach of stimulation technique can be maximized both of injection capacity and cut operational cost Dilation Cyclic Breakdown is a breakthrough stimulation technique through hydraulic treatment by injected high volume of formation water into the reservoir below tensile stress and above shear stress. The primary design that have led to these technique include the following steps : Certain criteria were used for pilot well such as hall plot and single well of nodal analysis. Operation can be performed by rigless operation and no chemical additive needed, equipment selection is approached by 3D fracture simulator both surface pressure and injection rate correlated to mechanical earth model syntethic. Pumping schedule and the number of cycle is optimized by pressure calibration analysis during Breakdown test, Step Rate Test and decline pressure analysis. It was critical that Step Rate Test and decline pressure analysis procedure be performed to determine fracture gradient as upper bound pressure and shear gradient as lower bound pressure. Various procedures were used in handling data recorded. Injection and pressure data from each well were plotted to observe the trend in the rate - pressure relationship. Nine injection wells were stimulated during 2020 - 2021. It has been an attractive result both of cut operational cost and increase injection capabilities. The operational cost per well can be reduced to $ 46,000 or 72% cheaper than matrix acidizing stimulation and the total incremental injection rate reach to 14,907 Bwipd or 1,656.3 Bwipd per well. A half of those injection wells were previously stimulated by matrix acidzing method but has not yet improved significantly. In addition, this method is also applied for two oil producer wells in sandstone reservoir as a pilot test. The increasing of Productivity Index greater 6.5 - 8x than initial as a result and has still been observed. Furthermore, this paper should be beneficial to all engineers currently working in brown and marginal Oil Field with tight economic margins to increase the production.
Prabumulih Field was located in South Sumatra, Indonesia. It has been developed as an oil field since 1920n (It was categorized as a mature field). At the end of 2019, the amount of oil well production was 149 wells (93% of the producing wells installed artificial lifting). As a consequence, to maintain production, artificial lifting surveillance activities must be a major concern and be managed properly. However, there are some challenges for surveillance, for instance, the location of well spread over a large area, the condition of the access road, and limited human resources. Surveillance activity itself carried out manually required both much time and many human resources, however, acquired data was only once in a week for one well. That condition always emerged undesired occurrence because engineers who were in the headquarter did not obtain notification when producing wells were in trouble or suddenly off producing. In addition, there was a delay in time for evaluation and intervention, which resulted in decreased oil production. Nowadays, application, in order to accelerate the data retrieval process, was much needed, especially real-time acquisition and it could be monitored in several kinds of devices. This paper will be presented about the benefit of real-time monitoring application in mature field, especially for artificial lifting well (ESP and Rod Pump). It has been installed since December 2019. There were several benefits obtained after installing this technology, those were related to surveillance and optimization. For instance, reducing time and human resources needed to obtained pump parameter data, engineers who are in the headquarter could observe everyday using both laptop/personal computer and smartphone, engineers obtained notification immediately when there were wells in a trouble, decision making for optimization and or intervention was faster, increase pump run life, and reducing well service program. Besides, there was another benefit that related to cost reduction, for instance saving rig costs for well service of 350,578 USD in a year because the amount of well service decreased from 49 times to 36 times, and obtained additional gross revenue of 547,945 USD for one year (cost for real-time monitoring for a year is 116,438 USD) because production deferment reduced from 19,577 STB to 5,105 STB. Based on those data, real-time monitoring could increase the economic condition of the mature field, so it was worth applying in a mature field.
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