The strategy of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is to implement key/emerging technologies at a country wide scale to meet future oil demand and production targets as planned in KPC 2040 strategy through overcome the field's challenges. KOC's Optimization strategy focuses on:

  • Increased and optimize oil production from production optimizations

  • Extension of field life

Production interruption associated with pressure build up in reservoir, wellbore and flow lines have observed among many wells in West Kuwait fields perforated in Upper Burgan formation, which has a great impact on the company strategy. Tight emulsion phenomena is consider one the most challenging problems in West Kuwait wells due to the nature of asphaltenic crudes and high water cut production percentage. Traditional approaches to reduce high pressure and break the emulsion phase through injecting chemical near wellhead or in annuls is usually not successful in most cases and require large amount of chemical. Due to the complexity of this issue, a novel approach was used in this study to identify the main causes of oil production reduction and overcome the challenge to maximize oil production in West Kuwait fields.

Keywords:
scale remediation, paraffin remediation, Hydrate Remediation, hydrate inhibition, Upstream Oil & Gas, oil sample, Artificial Intelligence, Production Chemistry, scale inhibition, psia
Subjects:
Production Chemistry, Metallurgy and Biology, Flow Assurance, Reservoir Characterization, Fluid Characterization, Formation Evaluation & Management, Information Management and Systems, Inhibition and remediation of hydrates, scale, paraffin / wax and asphaltene, Precipitates (paraffin, asphaltenes, etc.), Phase behavior and PVT measurements
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