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This document describes Integrated Asset Modelling (IAM), which evaluates how different components like wells, reservoirs, and facilities interact to identify opportunities to increase production. The Prosper, GAP, MBAL, and PVTp software from Petroleum Experts Ltd. allow modeling these interactions. IAM has been used to optimize gas lift allocation, de-bottleneck flowlines, enhance electric submersible pump performance, optimize water injection, and increase production for various assets worldwide. The document provides contact information for the IAM/Artificial Lift team and local IT support to access the petrotechnical software.

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IAM - Lunch & Learn (Brian)

This document describes Integrated Asset Modelling (IAM), which evaluates how different components like wells, reservoirs, and facilities interact to identify opportunities to increase production. The Prosper, GAP, MBAL, and PVTp software from Petroleum Experts Ltd. allow modeling these interactions. IAM has been used to optimize gas lift allocation, de-bottleneck flowlines, enhance electric submersible pump performance, optimize water injection, and increase production for various assets worldwide. The document provides contact information for the IAM/Artificial Lift team and local IT support to access the petrotechnical software.

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Integrated Asset Modelling (IAM)

Lunch & Learn Presentation

IAM/Artificial Lift Team


Well Performance UTG
How Are Increased Production Opportunities Identified ?
By Evaluating How Each Component Interacts
with Each Other - “Integrated Asset Modelling”

Production $
Network
Injection
Power / Fluid / Gas Network

Production Facilities Injection


Wells Wells

PVT Characterisation

Reservoir
Material Balance
How Can This Interaction Be Investigated ?
Using The Petrotechnical Toolkit from
Petroleum Experts Ltd

GAP GAP
$

Prosper
Prosper
Power / Fluid / Gas

Production Facilities Injection


Wells
PVTp Wells

MBAL
PVT
Material Balance
Rock Properties
Prosper: Versatile Well Modelling Programme
• Conventional nodal analysis programme for naturally flow, gas
lift, ESP, and hydraulic pump wells
• Capability to match PVT data (from PVTp or any other data
source)
• Capability to match pressure and temperature surveys
• Generate wellbore hydraulics tables for reservoir simulators
(VIP, Eclipse, & GCOMP)
• Rich selection of well inflow performance models
• Handle multi-layer, multi-lateral completions
• Detect well instability
How Do You Spot Opportunities for Increased Performance?
Single Well Performance Optimisation
Gas Lift

Oil Production
Optimum Gas Lift Rate

Vertical Lift
Performance Optimise Gas Lift !
Gas Lift Rate

Minimize Bottom Hole


Flowing Pressure - But Prevent Sand !

Flowing Pressure
Inflow
Performance
Bottom Hole

Relationship Oil Production

Oil Production Rate


Increased Well Performance from Multilateral Completions?
Evaluation of Multilateral Well Potential
Prosper Now Has Rigorous
Multilateral Well Modeling
Capability
GAP: General Allocation Programme
• GAP is the driver of an entire production system
• It glues reservoirs (Mbal models, if applicable), wells (Prosper), and
surface facility network to form the integrated asset model
• It drives
> reservoir history match and performance prediction
> water and gas injection performance
> gas lift optimization
> surface network de-bottlenecking
> compression effects
> effects of infill well tie-in
> ...
So What About the Whole of the Field?
Optimising Field Gas Lift Allocation

Ula Gas Lifted Production System

Gas Lift Rate


Wells

Re-Allocate Gas Lift Distribution


Gap Production between Wells to Increase Production
System Software

In 1998 Gas Lift Rate

• Ula Increased Production by 1 Mbd


• Magnus Increased Production by 0.9 Mbd
Wells
Optimised Wells Won’t Help if the Flowlines are Bottlenecks!
De-Bottlenecking Flowlines with Gap
Plot of Production Rate versus System Pressure

Flowline Graph

This is a Bottleneck

The Line Shows The Production


Potential Through the Flowline

The Points Beneath it Show the


Maximum Rate That Can Go Through !

(This is taken from the On-going Colombia IAM Programme.)


How About Electric Submersible Pumps?
Opportunities for Enhanced ESP Performance
An Example of “Down Thrust” on Wytch Farm Well M2

ESP Optimization using Prosper


• Ensure ESPs Are Sized Efficiently

• Optimize ESP Frequencies Used


- in combination with Flowline
Performance

• Maximize ESP Performance Life

• Optimize Field Electrical Power Use

Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) performance curve

Wytch Farm has Demonstrated a Production Increase


in Excess of 1.2 Mbd.
MBAL: Material Balance Programme
• A rather comprehensive material balance programme for
reservoir history match (if there is any) and performance
prediction
• Aquifer models to detect the existence and estimate the sizes
of aquifers
• Fast for screening many prediction scenarios and “fit-to-
purpose” evaluations
How Can Reservoir Performance be Increased ?
By Injecting Water in the Right Parts of the
Reservoir
Material Balance Model of a Reservoir

Magnus Optimized Water Injection by


this Method - and Increased Production
by 0.7 Mbd in 1998

This methodology is complimentary


to Full Reservoir Simulation - it
does not Compete with it !

By Characterizing a Reservoir as a Series of “Tanks” and “Leaks” - It is


Possible to Optimize Reservoir Management with MBAL
PVTp: Fluid Property Programme
• Capable of regressing on lab PVT reports to generate
accurate EOS for fluids characterization
• Generate fluids property tables for Prosper, GAP, and Mbal
• Ensure consistent fluid characterization and fluid property
tables from reservoir to gathering system
• Accurate fluid characterization is absolutely essential for
reliable integrated asset model
Assets With IAM
Models
• GoM (Mica, Crazy Horse, Holstein, Eugene Island, Matagorda,
Main Pass, Ewing Banks, West Delta, Trioka, Amberjack, &
Horn Mountain)
• Mid Continent Gas (Whitney Canyon, Red Oak)
• North sea (CNS Gas, SNS Davy, Miller, Marnock, Machar,
Mungo, Wytch Farm, Greater Forties, Harding, & Monan)
• Columbia (Cusiana & Cupiagua)
• Trinidad (East & West)
• Gulf of Suez (Badri)
• Prudhoe Bay BU, Milne Point
• Angola
So Who Do I Call?
Call the IAM/Lift Team

Aberdeen Houston Sunbury

• Steve Cooper • Henry Nickens • Simon Bishop


• Tony Liao • Luis Acosta
• Mike Stein • Richard Heddle

• Dan Yee - Technology Team Leader - Enhanced Productivity

So how do I get access to the Petrotechnical Software ?


Contact Local IT Support Team for Installation & Access
Contact IAM Team Members for Technical Questions

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