Field A offshore East Malaysia has been a productive conventional oil field for more than 3 decades. It has encountered several surface and subsurface issues, including sand production, increasing water cut, and reservoir-pressure depletion. The complete paper presents the process of identifying production-enhancement opportunities, develops a methodology to identify underperforming candidates and analyze well-integrity issues, and describes how data science and engineering analyses are integrated.
Introduction
Field A is undergoing redevelopment, including activities such as enhanced oil recovery, production-enhancement (PE) initiatives, idle-well reactivation (IWR), and infill drilling. However, Field A’s operations and PE initiatives face multiple challenges.
