Simulación del campo Yuca en la arena T con implementación de recuperación secundaria

Abstract

Secondary recovery, mainly water injection, is a common activity carried out by oil companies to improve hydrocarbon recovery in mature fields. In Ecuador, Yuca oilfield -located in Francisco de Orellana- has not had any type of secondary recovery despite being one of the oldest fields to date that remains active, and which has caused a decline in production. The present work executes the update of the dynamic model of the Yuca field in its lower T unit to later perform the secondary recovery forecasting and analysis. The data of the wells was updated until July, 2017, and used to build the new dynamic model. Using this new model, the following activities were performed, the history match of the model, the base case forecasting to 20 years in the future and, three water injection scenarios were analyzed and one was chosen as the best case scenario based on the accumulated increase in oil production/ formation wearing/and injection volumes.