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Jonathan Avila
Jonatha_Avila2@hotmail.com
DEVELOPMENT OF CORRELATION FOR THE BOTTOM PRESSURE CALCULATION WITH
ACOUSTIC MEASURES ADJUSTED TO HEAVY OIL OF BOSCN FIELD".
Determination of pump intake pressure(PIP) and production bottom hole
pressure(PHP) by acoustic log methods is one of the most used technique
nowadays for oil well's monitoring, nonetheless the use of the acoustic log by
the use of the Echometer in heavy oil wells is a technology which has a big
theoretical weakness, the correlations which the equipment use were
development by light oil(30 API), based on this weakness the research
presented here consist in a series of oil wells test, which are heavy oil wells of
Boscn field(10 API) with artificial lift by progressive cavity pump(PCP) and
bottom hole sensors which are specially designed to accurately measure the
Pump intake pressure in heavy oil, the methodology of the research consisted
on correct the oil fractions(FO) resulted of the Echometer test log into the
sensor measure oil fraction, this last one more accurate allowed to determinate
a new empirical correlations to correct the oils fractions calculated for the
Echometer to ones more representatives of the bottom hole environment and a
methodology to calculate of the PIP and PBHP in heavy oils, the new
correlations correct the oils fractions from the relation of gas flowing in the
annular and the area of the annular, the used of this correlations in few wells of
the Boscn oil field resulted in that the modified curve S for heavy oils exhibits a
generally behavior which show that the echometer considerably underestimates
the pump intake pressure, in wells of oil fractions over 0.7, the oil fraction is
underestimated 0.05 average Its a average of 41 psi, in wells with oil fractions
(0.5-0.7) It is underestimated by the echometer in 0.17 point which result in 118
psi, in wells with lower oil fractions, the underestimated is by 0.19 point resulting
in 292 psi in average.