Reservoir Pattern Surveillance of Mature Floods Using Streamlines

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The third edition of our book on reservoir surveillance was published in November 2018 and can be purchased directly from Lulu.com.  You can preview the book here.

"During sharply declining oil price environments (1998, 2001, 2009, and 2016) operators are forced to shift to optimization of existing assets at minimal costs. For mature (water) floods, one low-cost optimization strategy is adjusting well rate targets in a systematic manner.  While it is easy to identify high water cut/water rate producers, it is difficult to identify which injector(s) are responsible for the inefficient offset oil production and associated fluid cycling, making the setting of injection targets difficult without a calibrated reservoir (simulation) model.  However, detailed calibrated reservoir models require simulation expertise, are time consuming to build, and can even be considered over-kill for managing monthly rate targets.  Reservoir surveillance techniques sidestep this problem by using measured well data combined with simpler models to create a feedback loop that is informative and valuable for reservoir management."