Integrated Reservoir Management For Life Extension of a Mature and Marginal Oilfield-Talara Basin, Peru

摘要

vOil production in Peru is based on the development of mature fields with highly complex geological and reservoir characteristics; therefore, a great amount of creativity is required to operate these old fields. This is particularly true of fields located along the north coast where the low productivity of reservoirs reduce the attractiveness of development projects.This paper outlines the Integrated Reservoir Management Process that Petrobras started in 1996 in Block X, located in the northwest of Peru on the Talara Basin - the oldest producing basin in South America with more than 100 years of continuous production.