Análisis técnico-económico del método de optimización de bombeo hidráulico: Hal Petrie, Eddie E. Smart y Phil Wilson en el Activo Shushufindi

Abstract

The Shushufindi Asset is currently in its maturity stage as an oilfield, and due to the economic situation in Ecuador, it is necessary to implement new methods that allow increasing the production of the fields of the Asset. The current configurations of the wells that operate with hydraulic jet pumping, are wrong sized, due to several aspects, such as the natural depletion of the reservoirs, the time elapsed since the last workover, among others. The method proposed by Hal Petrie, Eddie E. Smart and Phil Wilson focuses on the selection of the best nozzle and throat combination of the jet pump, uses iterative procedures and contemplates the most important operating parameters of rock and fluid. We work with seven wells of the asset, achieving a redesign that generates an increase in the net production of oil and a reduction in the consumption of power fluid. The technical and economical analysis of the results considers three possible scenarios according to the variability of the oil price, and it was determined that the application of the project is profitable in any scenario.