Plan de Optimización de la Producción del Campo Atacapi Mediante Propuesta de un Portafolio de Oportunidades

Abstract

The oilfield production optimization is one of the main areas of the oil and gas industry, optimization projects aim to maximize hydrocarbon production, with proposals that do not involve a strong economic investment and that allow to maintain low costs of production. The Atacapi field located in the eastern basin of Ecuador, began production in 1979, is now considered a mature field and is in the second stage of production. Using reservoir engineering and production engineering, the problems that generate production losses can be identified, allowing the determination of a reliable diagnosis and the creation of proposals that can solve the problem. The following study is performed by analyzing all the wells in the Atacapi field, the natural curve of production decline, the productivity index of the reservoirs, the accumulated reserves and the capacity of the surface facilities. Finding production limitations, a proposal is posed for each type of problem and then the possible increases in production is estimated, proceed to identify the deficiencies in the surface facilities with the expected incremental flow and finally the proposals are hierarchized through an analysis of risks and opportunities.