CAPACITANCE RESISTANCE MODEL (CRM) APPLICATION TO RAPID EVALUATE AND OPTIMIZE PRODUCTION IN PERIPHERAL WATERFLOOD FIELD, PANDHAWA FIELD CASE STUDY

Abstract

Waterflooding is one of the most effective methods to improve oil recovery in mature fields because of its high success ratio, easy in application and cost efficiency. Development until now has shown that Capacitance Resistance Model (CRM) can be used as alternative from reservoir model and simulation studies. CRM can be used as model to predict reservoir characterization and reservoir performance quickly and accurately with only require historical production and injection data. CRM characterizes the reservoir by calculating the connectivity value and the response delay between the injections well and the production well as unknown parameters. Pandhawa Field is a heterogeneous carbonate reservoir with an average permeability of 65 mD with peripheral waterflood since 20 years ago. By knowing the injection efficiency, the optimization process can be carried out by increasing the water injection rate in injection wells that have high efficiency and vice versa. In this study, the performance of waterflood is analyzed using the Capacitance-Resistance Injection-Production Model (CRM-IP) to determine the connectivity of each injection and production well. This study also discuss CRM-IP implementation on MATLAB programming language and optimization of injection rate allocation for the most optimum cumulative oil production. Result of this study indicate total additional oil 505 MBO will be obtained during 120 months period by conduct redistribution water injection management for each injector. By using CRMIP methodology, waterflood management in this field can be done much faster, therefore decision taken for this field will be more effective.