Description Oil industries with higher potential reservoirs are having restrictions to maximize the oil production when the gas handling capacities are limited with considerations to environment. There can be other limitations such as water handling capacity and well-head sensitivity limitations. To overcome these limitations this paper provides a comprehensive method, which was developed with combination of mathematical tools like curve fitting techniques to build well model from production test results and linear/ nonlinear programming for optimizing the well models. Application This method summarized can be applied to optimize/ maximize oil production in matured fields, fields with limitation on gas handling and high GOR limitations. Principle used in this paper can be used in fields with water handling limitation also. This will help reducing impact on environment as well. Results and Conclusions Results for maximum oil which can be produced with the gas plant design conditions, limitations are provided in this paper and set of well choke opening for the optimum production are generated by program for different cases. Previous works used the approach to optimize mainly gas lift wells, this paper proposes for oil production optimization, moreover previous works created well performance curves on the basis of oil production or estimations, but this work is based on choke opening and well test results of encoded wells. Technical Contributions A novel method of combining well test data to interpolate oil, gas, water production equation (Well performance curves) in terms of well choke opening (which is decision variable) is used. This paper provides optimum oil produced from field, Maximum oil which can be produced from field with different Gas limitations, and field maximum oil production capacity. All the above results are generated without using any specialized software.
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