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Instituto Mexicano del Petrleo

Classroom G2

ENGLISH INTERMEDIATE

Decline Curves

Teacher: Roberto Hinojosa

Gustavo Milla Flores

Date: 24/July/2014
Objective
To present a easy and practical tool in the reservoir engineering to
forecast the average reservoir rate to plan what actions are necessary to
maintenance a economical production.


Introduction

Reservoir life cycle

Reservoir performance

Natural Reservoir Tendence


Forecast :Decline Curves

Exponential
Hyperbolic
Harmonic
Example

Closure


Content


Introduction
Reservoir management

Maximize profits/proftitability index
from a reservoir

Optimizing recovery
Minimizing capital investment.
Discovery
Delineation
Development
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Abandonment
Exploration
Reservoir life Cycle Basin
Prospect
Play

Reservoir performance
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Economic limit
The so-called Economic Limit is when extrapolating the graph
reaches a point where the value of the production of oil or gas,
is equivalent to the cost of production. To continue with the
operation, the expenses would be higher than income.
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Flow
regimes
Semi steady-
State flow
Exponential Hyperblic Harmonic
Unsteady
state flow
Decline curves

Decline Curves
Clasification of production
decline curves
Decline Curves
Example Exponential
declination

Fecha T[aos] Qo [m3/da]
ene-81 1 100
ene-82 2 60
ene-83 3 44
ene-84 4 34
ene-85 5 28
ene-86 6 23.5
ene-87 7 20
ene-88 8 17
ene-89 9 14.5
ene-90 10 12.3
ene-91 11 10.4
ene-92 12 8.9

Declination curves are used to forecast the production
rate and predict the limit economic.

It is a tool to analize the reservoir behavior versus
time.

Its important to compare with other methods like
numerical simulation
Closure
Agarwal, R. G., Gardner, D. C., Kleinsteiber, S. W., and Fussell, D. D.,
Analyzing Well Production Data Using Combined Type Curve and
Decline Curve Analysis Concepts, SPE 49222, SPE Annual Technical
Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, LA, September 1998.

2. Agarwal, R. G., Al-Hussainy, R., and Ramey, H. J. (1970). An
Investigation of Wellbore Storage and Skin Effect t in Unsteady Liquid
Flow. SPE J. September 1970, pp. 279290.

3. Anash, J., Blasingame, T. A., and Knowles, R. S., A Semi-Analytic
(p/z) RateTime Relation for the Analysis and Prediction of Gas Well
Performance , SPE Reservoir Eval. & Eng. 3(6), December 2000
References