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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2017
Applicant:

Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;

Inventors:

Kalpesh M. Patel, Dammam, SA;

Rohit Patwardhan, Dhahran, SA;

Hussein Salloum, Dammam, SA;

Fouad A. Al-Saif, Safwa, SA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 34/06 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/12 (2006.01); E21B 47/06 (2012.01); E21B 47/10 (2012.01); E21B 47/00 (2012.01); E21B 43/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 41/0092 (2013.01); E21B 34/06 (2013.01); E21B 43/128 (2013.01); E21B 43/16 (2013.01); E21B 47/0007 (2013.01); E21B 47/06 (2013.01); E21B 47/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a hydrocarbon field including multiple production wells and injection wells, at a hydrocarbon field level, a long-term field-level target and optional long-term well-level targets for the field are received by a field-level processor. The long-term field-level target including a long-term field-level production target indicating a quantity of hydrocarbons to be produced and a long-term field-level injection target indicating a quantity of fluid to be injected into the field. The field-level processor determines short-term individual production targets for the production wells and short-term individual injection targets for the injection wells to achieve the long-term field-level target. At an individual well level, individual hydrocarbon productions of the production wells or individual fluid injections of the injection wells are controlled, by at least one individual well-level processor independent of the field-level processor, to achieve the long-term field-level target.


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