.... The workflow was successfully used to optimize the horizontal well placement for 2019-2020 drilling programs. Reservoir Modeling Reservoir Characterization flow unit Artificial Intelligence heterogeneity well placement placement workflow saturation Upstream Oil & Gas coefficient drqi...

... Abstract Optimal reservoir management usually requires evaluation of a large number of various development scenarios. This applies to a choice of well placement and settings configuration, waterflooding strategy and history matching process. Reservoir models are commonly used to obtain field...

... Abstract The task of drilling and completing horizontal development wells in carbonate reservoirs can prove to be quite difficult, especially in the well placement and completion design stages. These stages of well construction can be particularly challenging when the reservoir is characterized...

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...Well Location Optimization Method Optimal well placement is posed as a constrained numerical optimization problem. Well locations are parametrically described in terms of areal coordinates. Optimal locations are sought within spatial bounds that maximize a hydrocarbon recovery driven objective...

... decision-making process such as well placement. Optimization of well placement in complex reservoirs requires a thorough understanding of both local and global optimization methods, key parameters, and constraints. A major drawback in this process is that most optimization algorithms are incorrectly...

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... complexity drilling measurement upstream oil & gas unconformity well placement azimuthal resistivity resistivity wellbore processing step scenario processing workflow Introduction Since the introduction in 2005 of deep and directional logging-while-drilling (LWD) electromagnetic (EM...

... for the purpose of calculating the recovery potential. This approximation has been enhanced from its earlier formulation ( Xie et.al., 2012a , b ) and so we will review its derivation here. The derivation of the geometric pressure solution starts from the diffusivity equation: Previous well placement...

.... These examples will highlight why deep look-around resistivity is a step change related to the possibility for doing pro-active well placement of highly deviated wellbores as well as for gaining a larger reservoir understanding. The imaged variation in resistivity contrasts can be related to geologic zonation...

... across a given field. In comparison, acquiring sufficient measurements while drilling for formation evaluation, and well placement can be applied to deliver consistent production results and provide a common platform for completion design practices. reservoir characterization shale gas well...

... in question. Stranded reserves will be seen ever more so as a measure of engineering malfeasance and not just sub-optimum economics. well layout energy economics fracture azimuth reservoir investment well placement orientation initial capital investment hydraulic fracturing correspond...

... an innovative methodology to design and evaluate well placement estimate hot water production for Australian geothermal fields. This model can be used to design and optimization of parameters of production system such as water injection rate, well placement. Moreover, it can be used to, determine the amount...

... azimuthal propagation resistivity well placement resistivity resistivity level Introduction The main objective of reservoir navigation is to stay for long intervals in the target zone, while keeping clear, at appropriate distances from boundaries including reservoir tops, oil-water contacts...

... Abstract This paper details the application of microseismic fracture mapping in conjunction with in-depth treatment evaluation to improve infill well placement and understand fracture treatment behavior and well performance. Microseismic mapping was performed on two nearby infill wells...

... orientation bed resistivity well logging antenna sensitivity resistivity well placement electromagnetic measurement well planning drilling measurement spe 97045 drilling operation trajectory design variation lwd drilling data acquisition shale logging while drilling reservoir...

... will detail how the well design process and WITSML enabled real-time drilling information is conducted and visualized in one 3D view. It will demonstrate how this increased efficiency, contributed to better well placement and reduced operational cost, by complementing technical expertise and increasing...

... Various approaches have been proposed for production optimization. Bittencourt 2 (1994) optimized the scheduling of a field using the polytope algorithm. Beckner and Song 3 (1995) applied the traveling salesman framework on a well-placement problem, using Simulated Annealing (SA) to find...

... for heterogeneous media is embedded within a reservoir performance feedback loop of a powerful gradient search method to produce a robust optimal in-fill well placement algorithm. Utilizing this approach, new criteria are developed concerning optimal placement of vertical wells for primary production with respect...

... methods introduces hill-climbing into the stochastic search and also makes use of proxies created on the fly. Performance of the technique was investigated on a set of exhaustive simulations for the single well placement problem and it was observed that the number of simulations required was reduced...