Publications

Abstract Infill drilling is a proved strategy to improve hydrocarbon recovery from reservoirs to increase production and maximize field value. Infill drilling projects address the following questions: 1) Where should the wells be drilled? 2) What should be their optimum trajectories? 3) What are the realistic ranges of incremental production of the infill wells? Answering …

Summary Rate-transient analysis (RTA) is a useful reservoir/hydraulic fracture characterization method that can be applied to multifractured horizontal wells (MFHWs) producing from low-permeability (tight) and shale reservoirs. In this paper, we applied a recently developed three-phase RTA technique to the analysis of production data from an MFHW completed in a low-permeability volatile oil reservoir in …

Abstract Recently unconventional gas resources including the shallow biogenic gas reservoirs have received great attention around the world due to technical advances in the field development and corresponding large in-place resources. However, the technologies needed for the effective development of unconventional reservoirs are still behind the industry needs, for example the gas recovery rates from …

Abstract The construction of unified compositional model is important for modeling of production surface network. The produced streams are described by different multicomponent PVT models, while total production calculation requires a single consistent PVT system. The method for constructing a compositional model which is optimal in terms of components number is proposed. As a first …

Abstract In this paper we propose a novel method of reducing the number of history matching variables required for adequate approximation of static properties associated with reservoir models of hydrocarbons. The method is based on the expansion of the static parameters into discrete orthogonal basis with subsequent parametrization of underling expansion coefficients. The method is …