Reserves Management System - Rapid Tool for Optimizing and Tracking the Growth of Hydrocarbon Resources & Reserves

Abstract

Kuwait's resources and reserves to date are characterized by giant, large, massive oil and gas fields located in onshore and offshore areas of Kuwait. These fields are under different stages of development like natural depletion, pressure maintenance and enhance oil recovery (EOR) processes. Over the years, huge amount of resources and reserves data has been accumulated from these fields. This has made Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to re-evaluate its approaches towards management of these huge volumes of data efficiently. With passage of time, it has become more challenging to manage these reserves and resources volumes and promotions to meet company's growth strategies.Historically, KOC was managing its resources and reserves through a manual Reserves Management System (RMS) spreadsheets for tracking, archiving, monitoring, reporting and managing the resources and reserves.With time, RMS has become a very complex and involved process and it was felt necessary to introduce a new process and tool to manage the overall RMS workflow efficiently to meet company's business needs. Accordingly, KOC decided to introduce a systematic workflow tool to streamline the process of managing hydrocarbon resources and reserves data. The new workflow process consist of a robust multiusers database for archiving, managing and reporting which can be accessed by different teams at different security levels. This enhanced system enabled KOC's management and reserves evaluators to optimize the company's resources and identifying possible opportunities to meets its strategic goals.

Improvement of methods for estimating resource transfer into reserves

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