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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
Production
from 2-6 Pay Zones Using an Inexpensive Geochemical
TechniqueWe 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.