SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
Reservoir Pressure Anomalies: Investigating Causes with CoViz 4D
In a California onshore field, with hundreds of closely-spaced production and injection wells, a horizontal production well was experiencing occasional dangerously high pressure and temperature spikes – leading to a serious health and safety issue.
A Relief Well Planning Case Study
In the Gulf of Mexico, a drilling trajectory needed adjusting due to a recent update to the reservoir model. Although the change to the trajectory was minor, the shift of the placement of the 14-inch and 11 7/8-inch casing shoes invalidated the previously designed relief well plans. With a fast-approaching deadline for drilling operations, the well planning team had little time to make a new relief well plan that could (1) achieve the objectives of the updated target plan, (2) meet industry-standard relief-well design constraints, and (3) be ready to send for permitting.
Reservoir Simulation Ensemble Analysis via CoViz 4D Visualization and Jupyter Notebook Calculations
Dynamic Graphics provides powerful, interactive functionality to simplify software usage, but it has always recognized the need to prevent the limitations of a “black box” environment, allowing for the extension and customization of the tools by providing users with access to the underlying modular functionality. This enables clients to build their own solutions for precise problem solving, analysis, and 4D visualization without having to navigate the existing buttons and toolbars
Well Location Optimization with Visual and Quantitative Analysis
An onshore team was tasked with producing a list of potential well landing locations based on attributes in a geological model. Four pad locations in the field were each given a set of 12 wells arranged in a radial pattern; the model’s potential target area covered a Z range of about 1650 ft. The well landing locations needed to be optimized to hit the model’s high Net to Gross (NTG) and Gamma Ray (GRD) areas because these two attributes had high confidence amongst the team. Finally, the potential well path landing options had to be easily visually ranked.
Forward Seismic Modeling in a North Sea Reservoir
Improved, flexible and faster access to critical data is vital for fully informed decision making in today’s multidisciplinary asset development teams. It is also imperative to include the highest fidelity quantitative temporal data when building reservoir models to improve development plans and maximize returns on investment.
Monitoring CO2 Injection Volumes in the Subsurface—The Sleipner Field
Subsurface CO2 injection and storage is a proven technology for keeping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ...
