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Optimising and enhancing production through targeted use of technology can add value to a hydrocarbon field at any stage of its life.
In addition to their expertise in their own specialisations, our experienced production
technologists understand and provide the essential links between the reservoir, drilling
and process engineering disciplines. They are aware of the benefits of recognising and
implementing the many new technologies as they appear.
The upstream technologies for the development of hydrocarbon fields include means of optimising and enhancing production, integrated asset modelling, flow assurance and completion design. There are Open Server tools in software development, sand and water management and a variety of commercial support systems.
The support and co-operation of other teams within Senergy facilitates fully integrated field planning and development by calling on the skills of specialists in petrophysics, geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering, well planning, completions, workovers and surface network modelling.
Skills focus
- integrated full field development
- brownfield production optimisation
- well completions and workover design and planning
- integrated asset modelling
- production enhancement
- specialist products
Production technology integration
Our specialist workflows use advanced computational fluid dynamics, coupled fluid flow/stress state reservoir simulation models and transient flow modelling.
Application examples include:
- accurate integration of formation damage studies into optimising reservoir face completion design
- enhanced hydraulic fracture design and performance prediction
- sand transport and erosion modelling
- slugging effects prediction
- produced or sea water injection fracture prediction, accurately coupled to reservoir performance
- CO2 capture and storage
Upstream technologies for development of hydrocarbon fields:
- production optimisation
- production enhancement
- integrated asset modelling
- flow assurance
- completion design
- integrated field planning and development – in conjunction with other teams within Senergy
- software development – open server tools
- sand management
- water management
- commercial support
Production enhancement
Senergy’s production enhancement success derives
from a unique blend of skills which focus on the
key connection between the reservoir and wellbore.
From pore scale identification of damage mechanisms through to optimum sandface completion design, we use extensive geological and engineering experience to increase production and optimise injection in existing and future wells. Unconsolidated reservoirs which require sand management through to low permeability reservoirs, well history, log analysis, modelling and laboratory data are used to identify formation damage.
Formation damage
The term ‘formation damage’ covers any reduction
in near wellbore permeability which results from
activities such as drilling, completion, production,
injection, attempted stimulation or any other well
intervention. We can assess the risk of and mitigate
such damage during drilling and production and
assess risk and the extent of subsidence, compaction or casing damage in high depletion scenarios.
