A new method used for reservoir production performance analysis

Abstract

Water flooding type-curves, recently receiving increasing attentions, play an essential role in evaluation of OOIP and prediction of future production. The study proposed a method modified form Weibull model and water flooding type-curves to analyze the reservoir production performance, including predication of oil production and water injection rates. The results indicate that the method can estimate and provide solutions for oil production, water injection rate and injection-production ratio with a well accuracy. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the applicability and accuracy of model by field data. The matching results illustrate a good accordance between calculated values and field data.

Keywords

Weibull model / Water flooding type-curves / Oil production / Water injection rate / Injection-production ratio

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