Speeding up oil recovery by infill drilling prior to considering implementation of a full-field WAG process-El furrial field, Venezuela

Proceedings of the SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1483-1489

  Lopez G, Leonardo ^a   Rivas, Analiesse ^a   Bello, Joaquin ^a   Cordoba, Pablo ^b  

^a PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

^b BEICIP FRANLAB   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALTENE DEPOSITION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (EOR) PROCESSES;

ASPHALTENES; DEPOSITION; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PRESSURE DROP; RISKS;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

EID: 34547871666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. Muskat, M.: "Physical Principles of Oil Production", McGraw-Hill, 1949.
2. Bobar, A.R.: "Reservoir Engineering Concepts on Well Spacing," paper SPE 15338, January 1985.
3. Tokunaga, H., Hise, B.R.: "A Method to Determine Optimum Well Spacing", SPE paper 1673, prepared for California Regional Meeting of SPE held in Santa Barbara, Calif., Nov. 17-18, 1966.
4. Corrie, R.D.: "An Analytical Solution to Estimate the Optimum Number of Development Wells to Achieve Maximum Economical Return", SPE paper 71431, prepared for SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 30 September - 3 October, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2001.
5. Jimenez, J., Bello, J.: "Modelaje Integral del Activo, Campo El Furrial", PDVSA Internal Publication, July 2004.
6. Acosta, W., Andrade, J., Hidalgo, O.: "How to Determine the Best Exploitation Strategy From a Reservoir Simulation Model", SPE paper 69437, presented at LACPEC held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25-28 March 2001.