First Ever Deployment of Production System Optimization Tool in Giant Carbonate Offshore Field in UAE - Laying the Foundation for Digital Oil Field

Abstract

Development of giant offshore carbonate field with more than 400 oil producers and 300 water injectors are very complex without proper production optimization tool to reach sustainable production and optimize the cost of the investment for future development. Construction of IAM model for short term optimization purposes brings vital outcomes which can identify the short and long term optimizations scenarios and as a consequences reduce the investment with the maximum outcome of production within the reservoir management guidelines of the field. Integrated asset modelling tool (PSO-production system optimization tool Prosper+Gap) is ideal tool which can provide the best production optimization results to develop the giant field with all reservoir guidelines and production system bottleneck. One of the main achievement of integrated asset model (PSO) for a giant carbonate oil field is the fact that its fully compositional model which allows to track oil composition change at any point of the surface facility, which is critical for fields under secondary recovery mechanisms with water and gas injection.