PRODUCTION ENHANCEMENT

STRATEGIES FOR STRONG WATER

DRIVE SPE
RESERVOIRS
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C.A. EHLIG-ECONOMIDES , K.S CHAN, & J.B SPATH
PRESENTED BY
DENY FATRYANTO E.E.W 22215031
ABDUL

MASTER OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING PROGRAM

FACULTY OF MINING AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2016

OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
CRITICAL RATE CONSIDERATION
VERTICAL WELL COMPLETION
VERTICAL WELL PERFORMANCE
COMPARISION
VERTICAL WELL GEL TREATMENT
FRACTURE COMPLETION
HORIZONTAL WELL COMPLETION
CONCLSION AND RECOMENDATIONS

Introduction
ell
W
l
a
ic
Vert

Water Coning

Horiz
ontal
Well

Vertical Well Open to flow

only in portion of oil zone
Horizontal Well Drilled
above WOC

Avoid Coning
Well
Completions
&

Critical Rate Usually no

economic

CRITICAL RATE CONSIDERATION

Cannot be applied to production from reservoir with stong
water drive

Vertical Well Completion

Partial
Penetration

Total Penetration

Dual Penetration

Reverse
Penetration

VERTICAL WELL PERFORMANCE

COMPARISION

The total penetration method gives the highest oil rates at all
time. Initially the partial and dual penetration methods yield
the same oil rates. The partial penetration method begins its
oil rate decline first due to coning. . Dual penetration method
behaves like the partial penetration method at the early time
period, and performs like the total penetration method in the
late time period. The reverse penetration method yield very
low oil rate at beginning and increases to a plateau value that
is still below the rates of the total and dual penetration at that
time. At very late time period, it can sustain oil rates higher
than those provided by the other completion methods.

VERTICAL WELL PERFORMANCE

COMPARISION (contd)

The partial penetration method will make very little water

before the bottom water cone breakthrough at the
perforation interval. After initial water free production, the
WOR will increases but always be lower than those by
other completion methods. The reverse penetration yield
the highest WOR, followed by dual and total penetration.
These three methods yield almost the same cumulative
water production and partial penetration provided higher
magnitude.

VERTICAL WELL PERFORMANCE

COMPARISION (contd)

For cumulative oil production, like shown figure above, the total and dual
penetration provide essentially the same largest cumulative oil produced
at the later time while the partial method give least cumulative oil
produced. Reverse penetration if initial oil production is deferred, it can
provide more cumulative that partial penetration method.
If high water production can be handled, dual and total
penetration more be preferred because yield higher oil rates, thus
producing greater cumulative oil but at higher WOR.
Partial penetration yield smaller WOR, the oil production is severely
impeded by bottom water coning which bypasses the oil reserve.
Oil rate can drop rapidly to an uneconomic low level. Reverse

Vertical Well Gel Treatments

Gel treatment have been
conducted to create artificial
vertical flow barriers and
hence to suppress bottom
water coning.
A gel barrier delayed the
bottom water
breakthrough at the
perforation interval only
a few months.

Fracture Completion

Fracture will increases the effective

wellbore radius which increases the
critical coning rate but fracture also
bring the effective producing interval
closer to the bottom water. In
Vertical well throughout the total
penetration completion, fracture
could improve oil production but with
a much higher of water production.

Horizontal Well Completion

When production from a vertical well has already
watered out, one option may be to drill reentry
horizontal well as near the top of the oil zone.
Theoretical maximum water free vertical recovery
efficiency is 0.5236 when multiplied by the ratio r =
(1-Swc-Sor)/(1-Sw) provides the fraction of the oil in
place within the well drainage volume that will be
produced before water breakthrough

Conclusions and Recommendations

Among four basic vertical well completion strategies, the total
penetration and dual penetration methods yield the most oil production
and recover but at a cost of handling high rate and volume of water
production
Gel treatment in vertical well usually associated with cost and risk with
marginal of success
Stimulation with fracture in partial completion well will cause excessive
water production and reduce oil production. In Total penetration
completion will increases the oil rate and cumulative oil production but
at high rate of water production
Parallel lateral wells that drilled as far from WOC as possible (in the
absence of an overlying gas cap) can recover a theoretical maximum of

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