Case studies of petroleum production systems with the flow performance index (FPI)

Case studies of petroleum production systems with the flow performance index (FPI)

Economics

Petroleum industry

Gasoline

Decision making

Benchmarking

Petroleum analysis

Offshore oil well production

Arctic engineering

Horizontal wells

Offshore oil wells

Gas lifts

Well completion

Sand consolidation

In this work, the Flow Performance Index (FPI) is introduced to guide the analysis of the performance of well systems for petroleum production. For some time now, the oil industry has been investing in the technological advancement of the instrumentation of its wells and flow lines

therefore, the volume of acquired data is quite substantial. Nevertheless, these data are still scantly used and stored in isolated databases where sharing the data is difficult, forcing the professionals to waste time, searching and organizing information, rather than spending time on decision-making processes. Consequently, there is a need to organize and integrate the available data from the different sources and areas of petroleum engineering. The FPI may be employed to handle large amounts of field data (measured periodically) in a rational approach to integrate the data. The FPI allows the assessment of the technologies used in wells for completion and artificial lift, and the performance of wells and flow lines

it may be used for monitoring production and to aid in the diagnosis of flow assurance problems

it could also be employed for benchmark studies and comparison of field production systems. A few examples of applications of the FPI are presented here, comparing the performance of vertical, directional and horizontal wells, sand control technologies, and monitoring of production. Further, the concept of the FPI is extended for gas-lift wells, and a more general formulation is proposed to include mechanical-lift systems. The examples given herein have proven the usefulness of the FPI, in different areas of an upstream business unity in Brazil. 2017 ASME.

Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division

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ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2017, June 25, 2017 - June 30, 2017

2017

Mendes, Jose Ricardo P.

Bordalo, Sergio N.

Ariza, Sergio Fernando Celis

Miura, Kazuo

conferencePaper

10.1115/OMAE2017-62176