Producing partial waterdrive gas reservoir at high rate maximizes profitability

摘要

Bottom line. Ocean Energy achieved a 70% recovery and maximized profitability from a downdip waterdrive gas completion by aggressively producing the zone at high rates. Simulation confirmed that high production rates were not detrimental to recovery in this partial waterdrive gas reservoir, allowing accelerated project pay-out. Completing the entire interval also yielded the highest ultimate recovery. The reservoir was efficiently depleted from a singe wellbore in spite of its downdip location.