Production Optimization for a Sudanese Field

Abstract

Most of the Sudanese fields face the challenges of maintaining production rates, which are decreasing at a large rate annually. This project aims to find a solution that helps to improve the production rates in Fula Field by identifying the possible causes and factors influencing them using the developed model to represent the pipe networks. Transport network lines play an effective role in the transfer of crude from wells to central treatment plants. The internal diameter decrease of these pipes due to the wax deposits and the heavy crude components lead to an increase in flow pressures from the wells and through the assembly pipes, which leads to a decrease in daily production rates. The Network molding is used to analyze field data and to find ideal conditions and optimal production that can be achieved under the operational conditions and available equipment and thus help to make decision and future planning for field development. As a result of this study it was found that the decrease in production is due to the decrease of internal diameter of the pipes due to the accumulation of viscous heavy oil and sand with will create a back pressure affecting the total wells performance.