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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
Houston Geological Society Bulletin
Abstract
Abstract: Quantitative Allocation of Commingled Oil Production
from 2-6 Pay Zones Using an Inexpensive Geochemical
Technique
We have made significant improvements to the previously
published methods for geochemical allocation of
commingled oil production and/or commingled gas production.
This new method has allowed allocation of commingled
production from wells at less than 2-5% of the cost of production
logging. Four case studies are shown here. In the first two studies,
commingling of the wells was subject to approval by the Alaska
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC). Before agreeing
to the use of geochemical allocation, the AOGCC required the
well
operator
to perform multi-month trial studies in which the
wells were monitored both by geochemical allocation and by
production logging. The scientists performing the geochemical
allocation were kept blind to the results of the production logging
until the studies were completed. Close agreements between the
geochemistry-based allocation values and the production-logging-
based allocation values resulted in AOGCC approval of
continued use of the geochemical method for oil production
monitoring of these two wells. Two additional case studies
presented here illustrate how geochemical allocation can be
used to monitor the effects on production of (1) changes in water
injection into nearby wells and (2) closing or opening perforations
within a well.
