Plan of Development to Unlock Reserves of Energy Fossil Using Characteristic Potential Mapping

Plan of Development (POD) is an essential component of the long-term strategy aimed at ensuring the efficient operation of a hydrocarbon field. This is primarily because hydrocarbon production must meet the targets set in POD while management often desires to extract even more from the field. Therefore, the withdrawal strategy needs to be improved in order to enhance cumulative production and recovery factors. This led to the mapping of characteristics as well as the screening of the location of infill wells to determine the most functional areas in this research. The characteristic potential mapping was developed by combining saturation, pressure, and permeability. Meanwhile, appropriate locations were required to efficiently drain oil from the reservoir, which was achieved by designing the sector model to represent the real circumstances in the full field of a particular region. Several scenarios were applied based on history to determine the best forecast for incremental production of hydrocarbon. Furthermore, a model was developed for both gas and oil fields and the simulation conducted showed its ability to determine the performance of the fields under several specific scenarios. The results showed that the optimum incremental production of gas was recorded in scenario 4 as 353.2 MSCF at a recovery factor of 49.23%, followed by scenario 5 with 353.2 MSCF and 49.22%, respectively. Furthermore, the optimum increment production of oil was found in scenario 2b for infill drilling (production) to be 2.14 MMSTB at a recovery factor of 22.63% while the injection location was scenario 2bii as showed by 3.01 MMSTB and 25.64%, respectively. It was also discovered that characteristic potential mapping was able to determine the optimum hydrocarbon cumulative and highest recovery factors in both reservoirs.