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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2010
Bruce A. Dale, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Timothy K. Ellison, Houston, TX (US);
Dieter Postl, Manvel, TX (US);
Dar-lon Chang, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Jennifer Hommema, Pearland, TX (US);
Bruce A. Dale, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Timothy K. Ellison, Houston, TX (US);
Dieter Postl, Manvel, TX (US);
Dar-Lon Chang, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Jennifer Hommema, Pearland, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for making decisions related to the operation of a hydrocarbon well include characterizing effective production capacity of a reservoir over space and time based at least in part on a reservoir potential and a near-well capacity; determining an optimized well potential over space and time relative to the characterized effective production capacity using a well model of a simulated well accessing the reservoir, which may be determined based at least in part on an objective function that considers at least one of a plurality of decision-making factors, such as one or more of operations costs, operational risks, and modeled production rates over the life of the well; and determining at least one well operating plan component that can be incorporated into a well operating plan to provide the optimized well potential in a well accessing the reservoir.