Step Change in Reservoir Simulation Breathes Life Into a Mature Oil Field

Understanding the uncertainties and optimizing the depletion plans are key to successful reservoir management. BP Trinidad and Tobago uses reservoir simulation to history match and then predict reservoir performance from highly faulted, stacked sands in Trinidad. The full-length paper details successful use of BP's top-down reservoir-modeling (TDRM) technology for optimizing infill-well locations in a mature oil field. The study used multiple scenarios with 16 history-matched models to broaden the scope of analysis of the reservoirs in a time-efficient manner.

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This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 94940, "Step Change in Reservoir Simulation Breathes Life Into a Mature Oil Field," by M.J. Kromah, SPE, J. Liou, and D.G. MacDonald, SPE, BP, prepared for the 2005 SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 20-23 June.

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