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Maintaining Currency in Reservoir Surveillance

  • 1.  Maintaining Currency in Reservoir Surveillance

    Posted 01-02-2023 11:34 AM
    Ladies & Gentlemen,

    Yesterday, I launched a discussion within the Reservoir Community about how best to remain current on multi-functional Petroleum Engineering topics, such as Reservoir Surveillance, to which I hope you'll contribute your thoughts.

    Specifically "What advice would you give to a relatively young Reservoir Engineer assigned to the Production Team to improve Reservoir Surveillance and Management Practices in terms of tracking SPE Connect Communities and getting involved in a relevant Technical Section?"

    Here is a truly cross-functional topic in the boundary and overlap area between 3 or 4 Technical Communities and at least 5 Technical Sections:
    • Reservoir Engineering (including formation evaluation & production geosciences) and:
      • The Management Technical Section.
    • Production & Operations, including:
      • The Artificial Lift & Deliquification Technical Section.
      • The Flow Measurement Technical Section.
      • The Flow Assurance Technical Section.
      • (And, quite possibly, the Water Life Cycle and Strategy Technical Section)
    • Data Science & Engineering Analysis
      • The DSEA Technical Section
    • Possibly the Completions Community with respect to permanent downhole surveillance equipment and installation challenges.

    I was shocked to discover that neither Reservoir Surveillance nor Surveillance appears in the PetroWiki Glossary and that there is currently no chapter on these topics, although "Field Surveillance" is a sub-section for various Reservoir Drive Mechanisms.

    As a P & F Generalist, I have identified at least 5 major challenges in discussions with associates with a DSEA perspective:
    • The economic justification for incremental expenditures in automating to process and defining the most cost effective human-machine interfaces.
    • Having a multi-functional team reach a consensus a fit-for-purpose data collection & management  program and/or periodically revising that program.
    • Defining the required data filtration and storage requirement to give variable granularity that can be easily & appropriately adjusted by the analyst.
    • Automating the processes for separating well, artificial lift and system performance problems from reservoir related problems.
    • Cost effectively presenting valuable well servicing activities & operational data and observations into the well performance data management system.
    Anyway, I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the topic.
    Might I suggest that we primarily respond and/or add a brief synopsis of our posts to the Reservoir Community discussion.
    Wishing you all a very Happy, Healthy & Rewarding 2023.
    Regards
    Bob

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    Bob Pearson
    Technical Director,
    Glynn Resources Ltd.
    Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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