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Automated Work Flow Identifies Opportunities for Production, Cost Improvements

The complete paper describes a combination of best practices and innovative techniques that help to provide rig-based and rigless opportunities by estimating potential and risk in a naturally fractured reservoir.

Grid cells coincide with oil/water contact and faults, creating an actual restricted boundary.
Fig. 1—Grid cells coincide with oil/water contact and faults, creating an actual restricted boundary.

An intensive effort is required to identify the right candidates and to ensure the technical and economic success of well interventions, infill-drilling locations, and sidetrack locations. An accelerated method for selection of existing wells for workovers and sidetracks would be of great value. A work flow is developed to automate tasks such as data gathering and validation. The solution allows integrated assessment of production-enhancement opportunities through consistent analytic computations and machine-learning techniques including Bayesian networks and time-series forecasting models.

Automated Data Integration

The advisory system starts with data integration and work-flow automation steps.

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