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Dynamic optimization of water flood reservoirs with the variational approach

Kashkooli ,S. B ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1080/10916466.2011.567209
  3. Abstract:
  4. Optimization of any production operation is a tool for increasing production rates and reducing production costs. Water flooding is one of the techniques that frequently be used to increase oil recovery after primary depletion. A methodology for optimizing the production by using the net present value of a heterogeneous reservoir under water flooding has been presented, which is based on controlling the bottomhole pressures of the production wells, using smart well technology. For this purpose, a numerical flow simulator is coupled with an optimization program. The technique was implemented on a synthetic two dimensional oil reservoir with heterogeneous permeability. This optimization process leads to about 4% increase in the cumulative oil field production and 5.6% increase in the net present value while the cumulative field water production was reduced by 3.9%
  5. Keywords:
  6. Reservoir ; Water flooding ; Dynamic optimization ; Net present value ; Production operations ; Smart Well technology ; Variational approaches ; Heterogeneous reservoirs ; Increasing production ; Optimization programs ; Optimization ; Petroleum reservoirs ; Reservoirs (water) ; Bottom hole pressure ; Floods ; Genetic algorithms ; Oil field development ; Oil fields ; Oil shale ; Oil well flooding ; Well flooding ; Petroleum reservoir engineering
  7. Source: Petroleum Science and Technology ; Vol. 32, issue. 3 , Dec , 2013 , p. 289-296 ; ISSN: 10916466
  8. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10916466.2011.567209?journalCode=lpet20#