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A PRODUCTION ALLOCATION METHOD FOR COMMINGLED GAS COMPLETIONS
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a method to approximatethe ratio of Correct production allocation for each commingled
fluw rate and cumulative productionfor each resewoir in a resewoir is, therefore, very important as it affects gas
commingledgas completion.Numekal reswvoirsimulation resetvesassessmentand future resenmirdevelopment.
was used to describe flow rate and pressure response of ProdurAonloggingcan be used to estimate the correct
wells completed in mutiple producing resewoirs without productionallocation but the allocation obtahwd from
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mer-myerCrossfiow.Tine use of the method is illustratedto sucha testis onlyvalidfor constantresewoir condtions.
compare the resultsof simulated and field data. During normal resemmir depletion the parameters
affecting production allocation change with time
dependingonthe diversityof size, pressureand physical
INTRODUCTION propertiesof each individualreservoir.
We studied the simulated cases for homogeneous
VICO lndoneaia/Petimina operatesmajorgas fields in East multilayer systems with unequal initial resefvoir
Kalimantan, two of which are named Badak and Nilam. pressures and properties. The layers are not in
These fields provide an average daily supply of mmmunicationwith each other (no-crossflow)and gas
approximately 1.5 Bscf to the Bontang LNG plant and productionfromthe Iayetswas at a constant bottomhole
Kaltim Fertilizer plants. The gas resewes are located in a flowingpressure.
geologically complex deltdc environment. There are in
excess of 1,000 indtiual gas reswvoirs, rangingin depth
from4,000 feet to 15,000 feet with a wide range of size and Wf AVIOR OF INDMDU AL RESER VOIRS IN A
resewoir propwties. ~ CMPN
In most cases the deeper reservoirs have poor sand
development and lower productivitymaking commingled Reservoir rnode!!ingw_s perfwrmd tc dascribe the
completions economically justified for the development. behavior of individual resmoira exhibiting various
reservoircharacteristicsin a commingled completion.The layers during production. F~ure 8 shows that at the
model used in th~ study was a rectangular three- economic limit, Layer 1, which is the lowest
dimensional grid system with each layer assumed to be transmissibilii layer, had the lowest contributionfrom
homogeneous, isotropicand filled with a single-phasegas the total cumulative productioneventhough thii layer
as shownin Fgure 1. The studieswere made by varyingthe had the h~heat initialreaewoir pressure in the system.
transmiasibilii factor, initialpressureand resewoir size for Forthisrun,Layer1, whichhad a ratioof transmiasibilii
each layer; in all cases the wells were produced at a to the total transmissibilityof 0.0008, contributed4.8%
constant bottomhole pressure of 750 peiato an emnomic of the total cumulativeproduction.
limitof 100 Macf/D.
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CONCLUSIONS
Subscript
The rasullsfromthii studysuggestseveral conclusionsthat j = indtiual-layer prope*
are useful for practicalfield applications n = number of layers
r = currentcondition
1. Production rate allocation obtahwd from production
logging is only valid for constant reservoircondtions.
During normal resmoir depletkm, production rate ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
allocation changes withtime.
We acknowledge our supervisorswho made the time
2. since the economiclimitof a well is based on wellhead available for us to finish thii study. We also
production,the ultimate recoveryof each layer will be acknowledge S. E. Heitzman for his re@aw and the
dependentuponthe performance of the other layersin managementof VICO Indonesiaand Pertamina-BPPKA
the system. for their permissionto pubiii thii paper.
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