ANALYTICAL STUDY ON GAS LIFT OPTIMISATION AND PREDICTION OF PRODUCTION LIFE OF THE WELLS IN PLATFORM C, B-1 FIELD

• Main Author: Abd. Karim, Nurfuzaini
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2013
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10690/1/Nurfuzaini%20bt.%20Abd%20Karim%2012811.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10690/

This report consists of five chapters which are introduction, literature review, methodology, results and discussion, and conclusion and recommendation. The project background portion explains about the background of the project, problem statement, project objectives and scope of the study, where mainly the study of this project is done on the B-1 Field which is located in Sarawak. The objectives of this project are to predict the production life of wells in B-1 Field as well as to optimize the production of wells in B-1 Field using the gas lift aid. Moreover, the scopes of study in this project includes the well modeling, gas lift design, gas lift optimization, dynamic reservoir modeling and prediction of production life of the wells. The problem statement for the project is based on a long shut in Platform C wells, thus the well behavior cannot be predicted. The literature review of this report describes the research on the project topic which is gas lift and reservoir dynamic model using two software which are PROSPER and ECLIPSE 100. Various sources are referred for the literature review section to have a better understanding on the research topic. The methodology part contains research methodology process flow, project activities with Gantt chart as the attachment, and tools required to run the project. In the methodology part, the process flow is explained with respect to the objectives of the project. The results and discussion section will discuss on the completed phase progress, in this case is the result for the first phase which is PROSPER modeling and the second phase which is the gas lift optimization in the PROSPER software while the third phase is ECLIPSE100 reservoir modeling. A thorough explanation will be provided in the section. Lastly, in the last chapter which is the conclusion and recommendation, the relevancy of the objective to the project progress will be stated and some recommendation is made to improve the future work.