Webinar: Designing Plant Capacities for Development Projects in Water Flooded Oil Fields

Sponsored by: Petrobras

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    Date: 18th August

    Days old: 4930

    Time: London 3PM / New York 10AM

    Understanding Waterflooded Oil Fields

    Forecasting the future water cut is of utmost importance for the design of processing plant capacities in both offshore platforms and infill drilling campaigns in mature fields.

    In this session we will describe a method to compute the water cut as a function of the recovery factor in reservoirs produced under water injection or natural water influx mechanisms. We also plan to show how to use this result to forecast both oil and water rates, providing the elements for the design of liquid capacities of processing plants are apparent. The volumetric decline method, which relates the oil-cut to the cumulative oil recovery, has been developed while analyzing the outcome of several Brazilian onshore and offshore fields.

    The design parameters for production development projects include the rock-fluid properties, the original oil in place, the recovery factor and the ultimate water-oil ratio. Development strategies such as peak and plateau productions are addressed. Economics may be easily incorporated to the model.

    Presented by

    Antonio Claudio Correa,

    Reservoir Engineering Project Manager, Petrobras E&P London Office

    Graduated in Mechanical Engineering, Correa holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University. He has worked at Petrobras since 1973 and held several positions such as Coordinator and Professor of the Graduated Programs in Petroleum Engineering and Geo-engineering (1988-2002), Technical Advisor for Advanced Oil Recovery Program (1995-2000), Co-ordinator of MBA in Petroleum Exploration and Production, Reservoir Engineering Senior Advisor (2003-2009). He developed the technical procedures for analyzing pressure tests in low productivity wells (Correa Method) and for production forecasts in wells under gas or water injection (Volumetric Decline Method).

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    Key Learning Objectives

    • Understand the design criteria and key parameters of processing plants in water producing oil fields
    • How to find the optimum oil withdrawal rate
    • Learn how to define the production parameters to be used in economics
    • Forecasting the production characteristics of waterflooded reservoirs

    Audience

    • Petroleum Engineers
    • Geoscientists
    • Managers of the Oils Industry
    • Reservoir Engineers
    • Geologists
    • Process Engineers
    • Drilling and Production Engineers
    • Petroleum Asset Managers