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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2015
Chevron U.s.a. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Morteza Sayarpour, Houston, TX (US);
Nariman Fathi Najafabadi, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Lokendra Jain, Houston, TX (US);
CHEVRON U.S.A. INC., San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of analyzing at least a first flood operation and a second flood operation. The embodiment includes, for each flood operation: receiving production data and injection data, running capacitance resistance modeling, using the generated response times, the generated interwell connectivities, the received production data, the received injection data, or any combination thereof to generate a proxy of pore volume swept per well pair, and aggregating the generated proxies to generate an estimate of pore volume swept at a well level, at a reservoir level, or both for the flood operation. The embodiment also includes comparing the generated estimate of pore volume swept to determine a change in sweep efficiency at the well level, at the reservoir level, or both.