Description
As reservoirs age and enter the second half of their life, using appropriate production improvement methods for each well individually is essential in the process of increasing and maintaining production.
Production improvement methods are classified into three sections: well-based, reservoir-based, and facility-based. The focus of the production engineering team is well-based methods, but this team can interact with other units, including the reservoir studies and processing engineering teams, and find an integrated view of the issue. In addition, oil reservoirs show a dynamic response to production and injection. This means that their response must be periodically modeled, evaluated, and updated. If necessary, alternative methods for producing or draining the reservoir must be evaluated and possibly implemented.
Major Problems and Challenges in the Middle East’s Fields
The problems that lead to production reduction can be divided into the following 13 general categories:
Excess water production
Excess gas production
Wellhead pressure drop
Bottom pressure drop
Asphaltene production
Bad cementing
Sand production
Loss of drilling mud
Reservoir pressure drop
Low reservoir permeability
Excessive back pressure on the formation
Formation damage
Completion restriction
If you are interested in investigating and learning how to solve the problems of wells in the Middle East, I have explained all of these issues in the PDF file below, and you will gain a very good overview.
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