Integrating Intelligent Field Data into Simulation Model History Matching Process

摘要

The advent of digital oil field technology initiated a new era of real-time data acquisition, which facilitated continuous field monitoring and swift intervention. Although yesterday's or the last hour's real-time data is not "real time," it can be classified as intelligent field data. Raw intelligent field data is usually recorded and stored in second or minute intervals, and the volume of the data has been continuously increasing. Yet the added value of the intelligent field data so far has outweighed the challenges in the storage, validation and summarization of such huge amounts of data. While reservoir engineers often struggle with historical well data that is limited in nature and is measured at different time intervals, the continuous and synchronized data stream emerging from the intelligent field provides unique opportunities to improve the history matching process of reservoir simulation models.