Well Placement, Infrastructure Design, Facility Allocation, and Production Planning in Multireservoir Oil Fields with Surface Facility Networks

Managing oil fields with multiple reservoirs and shared surface networks optimally is a challenging practical problem. The majority of studies on optimal well placement have focused on either the interactions within the surface network facilities or the dynamic states of the subsurface environment. This work holistically integrates both surface and subsurface sections and addresses well placement, surface network design and allocation, and production/injection planning in a field with multiple irregular-shaped reservoirs. We consider the dynamic, economic, and operational interdependencies of the reservoirs, shared surface network, and common oil market through a complex, nonconvex, and deterministic mixed integer nonlinear programming model. Our approach determines the optimal number and locations of wells, design or retrofit of surface network, connections/allocations of wells with surface facilities, and optimal injection/production planning in water-drive reservoirs. We illustrate the complex interpla...

[1]  James P. Brill,et al.  A Study of Two-Phase Flow in Inclined Pipes , 1973 .

[2]  D. Green,et al.  A Method for Determining the Optimum Location of Wells in a Reservoir Using Mixed-Integer Programming , 1974 .

[3]  J. P. Brill,et al.  Pressure Drop Correlations for Inclined Two-Phase Flow , 1985 .

[4]  Ignacio E. Grossmann,et al.  An outer-approximation algorithm for a class of mixed-integer nonlinear programs , 1986, Math. Program..

[5]  Sevgi Dogru.  Selection of optimal platform locations , 1987 .

[6]  I. Grossmann,et al.  Relaxation strategy for the structural optimization of process flow sheets , 1987 .

[7]  Dag Haugland,et al.  Mathematical and computer modelling reports: Models for petroleum field exploitation , 1988 .

[8]  Roddy V. Amenta.  An interactive FORTRAN program for cross-correlation of signals on a PC with CGA graphics: an application in marine geoacoustics , 1990 .

[9]  I. Grossmann,et al.  A combined penalty function and outer-approximation method for MINLP optimization : applications to distillation column design , 1989 .

[10]  A. S. Cullick,et al.  Optimal Planning and Scheduling of Offshore Oil Field Infrastructure Investment and Operations , 1998 .

[11]  Christodoulos A. Floudas,et al.  Optimal location of vertical wells: Decomposition approach , 1999 .

[12]  Ignacio E. Grossmann,et al.  An Iterative Aggregation/Disaggregation Approach for the Solution of a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Oilfield Infrastructure Planning Model , 2000 .

[13]  Roland N. Horne,et al.  Optimization of Well Placement , 2000 .

[14]  I. Grossmann,et al.  A Lagrangean Decomposition Heuristic for the Design and Planning of Offshore Hydrocarbon Field Infrastructures with Complex Economic Objectives , 2001 .

[15]  J. Curtis.  Fractured shale-gas systems , 2002 .

[16]  Louis J. Durlofsky,et al.  Optimization of Nonconventional Well Type, Location, and Trajectory , 2003 .

[17]  L. Durlofsky,et al.  Drift-Flux Modeling of Two-Phase Flow in Wellbores , 2005 .

[18]  Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos,et al.  A mixed integer optimization formulation for the well scheduling problem on petroleum fields , 2005, Computers and Chemical Engineering.

[19]  L. Durlofsky,et al.  Drift-Flux Parameters for Three-Phase Steady-State Flow in Wellbores , 2005 .

[20]  Gijs van Essen,et al.  Adjoint-Based Well-Placement Optimization Under Production Constraints , 2008 .

[21]  Paul M.J. Van den Hof,et al.  Model-based control of multiphase flow in subsurface oil reservoirs , 2008 .

[22]  Bjarne A. Foss,et al.  Oil production optimization - A piecewise linear model, solved with two decomposition strategies , 2010, Comput. Chem. Eng..

[23]  Gijs van Essen,et al.  Hierarchical Long-Term and Short-Term Production Optimization , 2011 .

[24]  A. Auger,et al.  Well placement optimization with the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy and meta-models , 2011, Computational Geosciences.

[25]  Bjarne A. Foss,et al.  Integrated field operation and optimization , 2012 .

[26]  Louis J. Durlofsky,et al.  Optimal Well Placement Under Uncertainty Using a Retrospective Optimization Framework , 2012 .

[27]  B. Jafarpour,et al.  A simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation algorithm for coupled well placement and control optimization under geologic uncertainty , 2013, Computational Geosciences.

[28]  Afrooz Ebadat,et al.  Well placement optimization according to field production curve using gradient-based control methods through dynamic modeling , 2012 .

[29]  Eduardo Camponogara,et al.  Integrated production optimization of oil fields with pressure and routing constraints: The Urucu field , 2012, Comput. Chem. Eng..

[30]  K. I. M. McKinnon,et al.  Oil production optimization solved by piecewise linearization in a Branch & Price framework , 2012, Comput. Oper. Res..

[31]  Mathias C. Bellout,et al.  Joint optimization of oil well placement and controls , 2012, Computational Geosciences.

[32]  Hamed Darabi,et al.  Well Placement Optimization Using Hybrid Optimization Technique Combined with Fuzzy Inference System , 2013 .

[33]  Iftekhar A. Karimi,et al.  Optimal producer well placement and production planning in an oil reservoir , 2013, Comput. Chem. Eng..

[34]  M. Sayyafzadeh,et al.  Infill well placement optimization in coal bed methane reservoirs using genetic algorithm , 2013 .