Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Jubril Babajide Oluwa

Adel Ali Al-Qahtani

Charles Bradford

Ali Essa Al-Mahfoudh

Hashim Shaikh Sulaiman

Dhaher Al-Elew

Abdelhafidh Fekkane

Adan Hanniel Tello Gomez

A method includes obtaining, using a computer processor, reservoir data and downtime factors for a well, determining, using the computer processor, an absolute potential flow rate for the well using the reservoir data, uniformly reducing, using the computer processor, an initial productivity index of the well to create a reduced productivity index having a productivity index multiplier, determining, using the computer processor, a relationship between the productivity index multiplier and each downtime factor for the well, and predicting production losses, using the relationship and the computer processor, of a field of wells as a result of the downtime factors.

Estimating well downtime factor in field modeling

Techniques for developing a hydrocarbon well employing hydraulic fracturing, including determining a geometric signature of a bi-wing hydraulic fracture of the well, including a fracture height (h), half-length (X) and width (w) of the fracture, determining fracture model parameters for the fracture, including a stimulated cell width (D), length (D), and width (n), determining a fracture conductivity diluting factor (FCDF) for the bi-wing hydraulic fracture based on the geometric signature and the fracture model parameters, applying the FCDF to a fracture permeability (K) to determine a model permeability (K) for the fracture, and determining a reservoir model of the reservoir that includes the model permeability (K) associated with the cells of the reservoir model that represent a region of the hydrocarbon reservoir that corresponds to the location of the hydraulic fracture.

Hydraulic fracture conductivity modeling

Provided in this disclosure are systems and methods for selection of petrophysical techniques to model reservoirs. Reservoir properties were calculated using two techniques&#x2014;a deterministic technique and an optimizing petrophysics technique, and simulation models were developed. The technique that yielded a simulation model that aligned more accurately and consistently with the reservoir data was selected to further develop the reservoir model.

Systems and methods to validate petrophysical models using reservoir simulations

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