The document outlines a field development plan aimed at increasing oil production rates and optimizing oil recovery. Key strategies include acquiring maximum reservoir area, maintaining reservoir properties, and implementing various recovery techniques such as primary, secondary, and enhanced oil recovery. The plan emphasizes the importance of estimating recoverable reserves and the necessary number of wells while considering regulatory factors affecting reservoir life.

1. Field Development Plan, Rate of
Production, Oil Recovery
By
Syed Nawaz
M.Tech Petroleum Exploration and Production
Delta Studies Institute
Andhra University

2. Content
• Introduction (Field Development Plan, Rate of
Production, Oil Recovery)
– Acquiring maximum reservoir area
– Maintaining reservoir properties
– Recovery techniques selection criteria
• Reference

3. Introduction
• The objective of field development plan is to
increase the rate of production
• How we can develop the field:
– Acquire maximum reservoir area (number of
wells)
– Maintain reservoir properties (avoid development
of void space)
– Pressure maintenance with the help of recovery
techniques

4. Acquiring maximum area of a
Reservoir
• Estimate the total recoverable reserves of a
Reservoir (condition is it should be commercially
viable)
• Base on above data estimate the life of a
reservoir, meanwhile plan the number of wells to
be drilled for extracting the HC within a required
time.
• Note: some times the life of a reservoir is also
decided by the regulatory bodies of a respected
countries (tax concession issued from national oil
policy (countries)).

5. Reservoir Area

6. Maintaining reservoir properties
• Reservoir properties includes rock and fluid properties
of a reservoir
• The major properties which has to be maintain are as
follows:
– Pressure (reservoir (void space) and pore pressure): this
leads to
• Permeability heterogeneity
• Alteration in the reservoir area
• Reservoir damage (decrease in fracture pressure of a reservoir).
– This leads to migration of HC from the reservoir
• Note: to maintain the aforementioned properties the
recovery techniques are to be used.

7. Recovery techniques
• Primary recovery (artificial lifts)
• Secondary recovery (injection wells)
• Enhanced oil recovery (?)

8. Maintaining rate of production
• DST
• Hydraulic fracturing (Propants)
• Acidizing
• Control of sand production (Gravel packing,
Resin injection)
• Drawdown and Buildup (aim to maintain K
and access of damage (time))

10. References
SYED NAWAZ’s BRAIN
Petroleum Engineer,
Ex-Student of PetroGate Academy,
Ex-NDT Inspector,
Free-Lance NDT Inspector,
PURSUING M.TECH(Petroleum Exploration and
Production) from DSI (Andhra University),
Owns a Petroleum Universe (A YouTube channel),
Author of Drilling Engineering GATE-2021 and
Reservoir Engineering GATE-2021 notes)

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