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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2008
Roger N. Anderson, New York, NY (US);
Albert Boulanger, New York, NY (US);
Wei He, Tappan, NY (US);
Ulisses Mello, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Liqing Xu, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Roger N. Anderson, New York, NY (US);
Albert Boulanger, New York, NY (US);
Wei He, Tappan, NY (US);
Ulisses Mello, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Liqing Xu, Tenafly, NJ (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-aided lean management (CALM) controller system recommends actions and manages production in an oil and gas reservoir/field as its properties and conditions change with time. The reservoir/field is characterized and represented as an electronic-field ('e-field'). A plurality of system applications describe dynamic and static e-field properties and conditions. The application workflows are integrated and combined in a feedback loop between actions taken in the field and metrics that score the success or failure of those actions. A controller/optimizer operates on the combination of the application workflows to compute production strategies and actions. The controller/optimizer is configured to generate a best action sequence for production, which is economically 'always-in-the-money.'