Title: Production Enhancement Strategies for Strong Bottom Water Drive Reservoirs
Abstract: Severe water coning occurs when producing oil and gas from a strong bottom water drive reservoir. This paper compares and evaluates several new drilling and well completion concepts designed to optimize production and delay water coning. For basic types of vertical well completion (partial, total, reverse and dual penetration) strategies are first examined using reservoir data from a field being developed. Although high water rate production cannot be avoided in all cases, oil rate and cumulative recovery can be significantly improved using total and dual penetration methods. Gel treatment to build a coning barrier was found to be ineffective and uneconomical. Under the same reservoir conditions, alternative options such as fracturing, horizontal well and short radius laterals were also evaluated. Multiple laterals that can be implemented with current drilling technology offer a promising strategy for delaying water cresting and enhancing production.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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