Waterflood Recovery Optimization Using Intelligent Wells and Decision Analysis

Abstract

The many critical decisions in a waterflood recovery process range from well number, architecture, and completion configuration to scheduling and facilities capacity planning. Project success is also affected by subsurface uncertainties, such as reservoir heterogeneity and compartmentalization, as well as surface events including equipment uptime and availability. Managing the complexities of a waterflood recovery is traditionally a sequential and intermittent process in terms of data acquisition, modeling, and workflows. However, traditional project planning, execution, and monitoring may help an operator reach production targets and budgets, but these activities do not necessarily align technical and business goals to create a comprehensive development plan that increases the probability of optimal business success.

Optimizing the Waterflooding Performance of a Carbonate Reservoir with Internal Control Valves

“…A full-field object function was used practically following the same equation presented by Saputelli et al (2009). For the study, the individual ICV setting are controlled based on water cut for producers.…”