Integrated production optimization of oil fields with pressure and routing constraints: The Urucu field

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 178-189

  Codas, Andrés ^a,b   Campos, Sthener ^a,c   Camponogara, Eduardo ^b   Gunnerud, Vidar ^a   Sunjerga, Snjezana ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^d Petroleum Engineering Reservoir Analysts   (Norway)

Author keywords

Integrated production optimization; Multidimensional piecewise linear approximation; Oil fields; Pressure drop modeling; Routing constraints

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; FIELD DATA; FLOWING PRESSURES; INTEGRATED PRODUCTION; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; PIECEWISE LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR FUNCTIONS; PRESSURE CONSTRAINTS; PROCESSING CAPACITIES; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; ROUTING CONSTRAINTS; VERTICAL LIFT; WELL DELIVERABILITY;

FLOWING WELLS; OIL FIELDS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 84864423371     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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