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Record W2015135990 · doi:10.2118/93884-ms

Mature Field Development - A Review

2005· review· en· W2015135990 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAll Days · 2005
Typereview
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicEnhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInfillPetroleum engineeringResidual oilEnhanced oil recoveryReservoir engineeringField (mathematics)Steam injectionComputer scienceEngineeringEnvironmental sciencePetroleumCivil engineeringGeologyMathematics

Abstract

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Abstract Development of mature oil fields has been, and will increasingly be, an attractive subject. Mature field development practices can be divided into two major groups: (1) well engineering and (2) reservoir engineering. This paper focuses on the reservoir engineering aspects. An extensive review of previously reported reservoir management practices for mature field development is provided. After the definition of mature field and an overview, different aspects of mature field development are outlined. The first issue covered is the estimation of remaining reserves focusing on the determination of the amount and location of the residual oil after primary and secondary recovery using field, log, and core data. After valuing the remaining oil, methods to recover it are classified. They include tertiary recovery, infill drilling, horizontals, optimal waterflooding design for mature fields, optimal well placement and other reservoir management practices. Suggested or implemented field application examples for big fields owned by majors and small fields owned by independents are presented. Special attention is given to tertiary oil recovery. An extensive review and critical analysis of tertiary recovery techniques covering the theoretical, practical, and economical aspects of it are provided. The emphasis is on their applicability in mature field development in terms of effectiveness (incremental recovery) and efficiency (cost and recovery time). Laboratory and field scale applications of different tertiary recovery techniques, i.e., gas (double displacement, WAG, and miscible-immiscible HC, CO2, and N2), chemical (dilute surfactant, polymer, and micellar injection), and thermal (air and steam) injection, conducted to develop mature fields are included. Specific examples of big/giant fields, fields producing for decades, and mid to small size fields were selected. Differences in reservoir management strategies for majors, independents, and national oil companies are discussed.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.815
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it