Petroleum Reservoir Management Considerations and Practices 1st Edition by Ashok Pathak ISBN 9780367519223 0367519224

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Author: Ashok Pathak

Petroleum Reservoir Management Considerations and Practices 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Petroleum Reservoir Lifecycle

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Life Cycle

1.2.1 Exploration Phase

1.2.2 Delineation Phase

1.2.3 Development Phase

1.2.4 Production Phase

1.2.5 Abandonment or Decommissioning Phase

1.3 Phasing of Development

1.3.1 Primary Recovery

1.3.2 Secondary Recovery

1.3.3 Tertiary Recovery

1.4 Thermal Recovery

1.5 Nonthermal Methods

1.5.1 Chemical Floods

1.5.2 Gas Injection Methods

1.6 Hydrocarbon Resource and Reserves

1.7 Reserves Categorization

1.8 Uncertainty and Risk in Development Projects

1.9 Summary of Reserve Estimation Methods

1.10 Reservoir Management and Development Planning

2 Operating Arrangements and Reservoir Development Objectives

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Oil and Gas Reserves Ownership and Control

2.2.1 Ownership In-Place Theory

2.2.2 Non-Ownership Theory

2.2.3 Qualified Ownership Theory

2.2.4 Ownership of Strata Theory

2.2.5 Servitude Theory (Profit a’ Prendre)

2.3 State Ownership of Oil and Gas

2.4 Oil and Gas Ownership Rights in the Seawaters

2.5 Value of Vision and Mission Statements of E&P Companies

2.6 Private and Public Sector Oil Companies

2.7 Examples of Vision and Mission Statements of Oil Companies

2.8 Public Sector NOCs

2.8.1 Saudi Aramco

2.8.2 China National Petroleum Corporation

2.8.3 Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.

2.9 Private Sector, Large Size Public Limited IOCs

2.9.1 Exxon Mobil

2.9.2 Royal Dutch Shell

2.9.3 British Petroleum

2.10 Private Sector, Small-Size Public Limited Companies

2.10.1 Anadarko

2.10.2 Apache Petroleum

2.10.3 Japan Exploration Petroleum Company

2.11 General Comments on the Vision, Mission, and Values of the Companies

2.12 Effect of Operating Company’s Strengths on Reservoir Management

2.13 Commercial Agreements

2.13.1 Concessions

2.13.2 Joint Ventures

2.13.3 Production-Sharing Agreements or Production Sharing Contracts

2.13.4 Service Contracts

2.14 Reservoir Development Objectives & Early Planning Considerations

2.14.1 Management Questions and Objectives

2.14.2 Conceptual Development Plan

2.14.3 Initial Development Plan

2.14.4 Mid-Term Development Plan

2.14.5 Final Development Plan

3 Reservoir Management Requirements

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Significance of Crude Oil

3.3 Oil and Gas Business Environment

3.3.1 Internal Factors

3.3.2 External Factors

3.4 International Monetary System

3.5 Reservoir Management Framework

3.6 Reservoir Management Requirements

3.6.1 Rate and Recovery Management

3.6.2 Project and Cost Management

3.6.3 Technology Management

3.6.4 Risk Management

3.7 Reservoir Management Framework

3.7.1 Development of Multiple Stacked Reservoirs

3.7.2 Well Allowables

3.8 Impact of Reservoir Management

4 Significance of Reservoir Health and Its Impact on Reservoir Performance

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Reservoir Drive Mechanisms

4.2.1 Solution Gas Drive Reservoirs

4.2.2 Gas Cap Drive Reservoirs

4.2.3 Water Drive Reservoirs

4.2.4 Combination Drive Reservoirs

4.3 Reservoir Fluid Types and Phase Changes

4.4 Concept of Reservoir Health and the Need for Quantitative Measures

4.5 Reservoir Health Indicators (RHIs)

4.5.1 Oil Rate

4.5.2 Producing GOR

4.5.3 Water Cut

4.5.4 Reservoir Pressure Vis-à-Vis Bubble Point Pressure

4.5.5 Fluid Saturations

4.5.6 Sweep Efficiency

4.5.7 Reservoir Souring

4.6 Factors Affecting Production Rate

4.6.1 Partial Penetration

4.6.2 Formation Damage

4.6.3 Formation Collapse

4.6.4 Paraffin or Asphaltenes

4.6.5 Scales and Precipitates

4.6.6 Emulsions

4.6.7 Mechanical Failures

4.6.8 Corrosion

4.7 Significance of Pressure Maintenance to Reservoir Health

4.7.1 Timing of Pressure Maintenance

4.7.2 Water Injection Requirement

4.7.3 Source of Injection Water

4.7.4 Water Quality Needed to Maintain Injectivity

4.7.5 Injection Pressure Requirement

4.7.6 Injection Patterns

4.7.7 Well Design and Construction

4.8 Corrective Measures for Restoration of Reservoir Health

4.9 Assessment of Health by Reservoir/Well Health Indicators

4.10 Impact of Poor Health on Reservoir Management

5 Reservoir Management Policy Framework

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Elements of Reservoir Management

5.2.1 Organization

5.2.2 Capability

5.2.3 Policy

5.2.4 Governance

5.3 Typical Governance Model of an E&P Company

5.4 Reservoir Management Policy Issues

5.4.1 Petroleum Exploration & Production

5.4.2 Outsourcing versus In-house

5.4.3 Production from Border Fields

5.4.4 Depletion Policy

5.4.5 Produced Water Management Policy

5.4.6 Associated Gas Production Management Policy

5.4.7 Fiscal Policy

5.4.8 Employment Opportunities and Compensation

5.4.9 Transfer of Technology

5.4.10 Local Development

5.4.11 Data Confidentiality and Security

5.4.12 HSSE Compliance

5.5 Management Controls on Business Activities and Results

5.6 Significance of Best Practices

6 Oilfield Water Management

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Produced Water Management

6.2.1 Sources of Water Production

6.2.2 Produced Water Control Solutions

6.2.3 Use of Inflow Control Devices (ICDs)

6.2.4 Produced Water Handling

6.3 Composition of Produced Water

6.3.1 Inorganic Constituents

6.3.2 Dissolved Gases

6.3.3 Treatment Chemicals

6.3.4 Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material

6.4 Produced Water Quality

6.5 Produced Water Handling

6.5.1 Produced Water Treatment

6.6 Injection Water Management

6.6.1 Source of Injection Water

6.6.2 Need for Pilot Testing

6.6.3 Injection Water Quality

6.7 Produced Water Disposal

6.8 Environmental Concerns

6.9 Water Management Process

7 General Reservoir Management Practices, Aberrations, and Consequences

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Planning

7.3 Implementation

7.4 Experimentation

7.5 Reservoir Characterization

7.6 Reservoir Simulation

7.7 Realistic Production Forecasting

7.8 Production below the Bubble Point

7.9 Venting or Flaring of the Produced Associated Gas

7.10 Disposal of Produced Water

7.11 Slippage in Pressure Maintenance (Water Injection) Program

7.11.1 Four Fundamentals to Watch

7.12 Data Management

7.12.1 Data Quality

7.12.2 Excessive Data

7.12.3 Duplicate Data

7.12.4 Poor Data Organization

7.12.5 Inconsistent Data

7.12.6 Incorrect or Incomplete Data and Misspellings

7.12.7 Data Accessibility

7.12.8 Data Security

7.12.9 Poor Data Recovery

7.12.10 Data Purging and Archival

7.13 System Downtime, Outages, and Failures

7.14 Database Management

7.15 Integrated Planning

7.16 Field Development Planning

7.17 Design and Execution of the FDP

7.18 Development Strategy and Options

7.19 Offshore Drilling Systems

7.20 Offshore Production Systems

7.21 Techno-Economic Optimization of the FDP

7.21.1 Technical Evaluation

7.21.2 Economic Evaluation

7.21.3 Standard Economics/Finance Terms

7.21.4 Economic Criteria for Project Selection

7.21.5 Economic Optimization

7.22 Alignment of Business Goals with the FDP

7.23 Field Development Challenges

7.24 Reservoir Monitoring

7.25 Role of Oil and Gas Processing Facilities

7.25.1 Oil and Gas Separation

7.25.2 Functions of Oil and Gas Separators

7.25.3 Recovery of Oil from Gas

7.25.4 Recovery of Gas from Oil

7.25.5 Removal of Water from Oil

7.25.6 Multi-Stage Separation

7.25.7 Gas Dehydration

7.26 Facility Constraints and Management

7.27 Project Management Slippages

7.28 Urban Planning for Surface and Subsurface Management

7.29 Reservoir Management Execution

7.29.1 Quantitative Appraisal of Reservoir Management Program

7.30 The Link between Reservoir Management and Organization

8 Reservoir Development and Management: Important Lessons Learned

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Reservoir Development and Management

8.3 Safety First

8.4 Project Management

8.5 Business Contracts

8.6 Reservoir Assessment

8.7 Production Forecasting

8.8 Role of Best Practices

8.9 Data to Decision-Making

8.10 Water Management

8.11 Reserve Estimation

8.12 Production Target Setting

8.13 Production Optimization

8.14 Value of Peer Reviews

8.15 Keep It Simple and Measured

8.16 Teamwork

9 Proactive Reservoir Management

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Use of Drones in the Oil and Gas Industry

9.2.1 Seismic Surveys

9.2.2 Oil Well and Drilling Rig Inspection

9.2.3 Pipeline Inspection

9.3 Maintenance Policies

9.4 Smart Oil and Gas Wells

9.5 Digital Fields

10 Pricing of Crude Oil

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The Global Oil Markets

10.2.1 Spot Market

10.2.2 Financial Markets

10.3 Shipping Agreements

10.4 Market Structures

10.4.1 Pure Competition

10.4.2 Monopolistic Competition

10.4.3 Oligopoly Competition

10.4.4 Pure Monopoly

10.5 Factors Affecting Oil Prices

10.5.1 Current Supply and Output

10.5.2 Future Supply and Reserves

10.5.3 Competition

10.5.4 Demand for Oil

10.5.5 Political Events and Crises

10.5.6 Political Environment

10.5.7 Effect of Weather

10.5.8 Exchange Rates

10.5.9 Alternative Sources of Energy

10.6 Role of OPEC

10.7 Crude Oil Classifications

10.7.1 Composition of Crude Oil

10.7.2 Sweet and Sour Crude Oils

10.7.3 Light and Heavy Crude Oils

10.8 Benchmark Crude Oils

10.8.1 Brent or Brent Blend

10.8.2 West Texas Intermediate

10.8.3 Dubai and Oman

10.8.4 OPEC Reference Basket

10.8.5 Other Blends

10.9 Pricing Strategies

10.9.1 Full Cost Pricing

10.9.2 Skimming Pricing

10.9.3 Penetration Pricing

10.9.4 Product Line Pricing

10.9.5 Dual Pricing

10.10 Pricing Criteria

10.10.1 Production Cost

10.10.2 Crude Oil Quality: API and Sulfur Content

10.10.3 Geographical Location

10.11 Crude Oil Blending Opportunities

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