Improvements to Deepwater Subsea Measurements RPSEA Program:Evaluation of Flow Modelling

摘要

This report documents a project to improve subsea flow measurements to allow the flow rates of individual wells to be known more accurately. Because production revenues are determined from flow rates, improved flow measurement reduces the financial risk to stakeholders, including producers and the U.S. government. Improved measurement also helps to improve reservoir recovery. In this project, commercially available flow models were evaluated for their suitability as virtual flow meters, to augment or replace hardware devices for the determination of flow rates in deep water wells. The goal of this project was to develop methods for evaluating flow models, and to report on the efficacy of these models to predict flow rates. Several flow models were used in the study, which also includes a survey of the available models.