Field Development Planning
North Africa Oil & Gas Integrated Solutions team of high-level and seasoned consultants has the strong expertise and experience in building FDP models, FFR and IOR-EOR studies to assist clients in making well-informed business decisions and achieving their business objectives.
Our multidisciplinary team members prepare integrated field development studies by blending their skills. Disciplines range from geology to reservoir engineering and surface facilities to final project economics. Integrating those disciplines allows the project to proceed effectively.
Our forecasts scenarios may include potential recompletion candidates,
infill or extension drilling, including vertical and/or horizontal wells, water injection or tertiary recovery and field facility/operating constraints. We identify field-development life cycles and recommend operational strategies to maximize rates of return and optimize field development.
We believe that systematic, timely and well-focused Full Field Review (FFR) will add significant value by identifying potential production enhancement and reserves optimization opportunities in and around brown fields. Most value is added by questioning prevailing assumptions, seeking and explaining anomalies, finding creative solutions and looking for opportunities to add value through application of new technologies.
The importance of mutually optimizing the reservoir, wells and surface facilities cannot be overemphasised. Our aim is to provide fit for purpose solutions and guidelines to improve asset recovery factor while effectively driving down development and operations costs to commensurate with the remaining resources and lifetime.
FFRs also help in justifying reserves reclassification of probable and possible reserves into higher categories. Alternatively, they can identify appraisal and data requirements to justify such reserves reclassification.
Main objective is to identify quick wins that could unlock value in the short term. These opportunities can exist in the form of impaired wells, reservoir sweet-spots, undrained compartments, and additional pay that can be accessed cheaply through interventions of existing wells (e.g. reperforation, recompletion, stimulation, advanced pump installation).
A range of issues will need to be understood, from subsurface aspects, such as reservoir and wells management, to surface aspects, such as facility and field operations management. Unless the client already identified the pain points to be addressed, it is therefore best to start modest and at low cost, through a holistic review of the asset by an integrated, multidisciplinary geoscience-engineering team with our optimized workflow.
Marginal field development project cannot progress until at least one economic solution is found. This is best achieved with updated full field review studies, which will add significant value by identifying potential production and reserves optimization opportunities in and around marginal fields. Fields can be classified as marginal when they exhibit the following features: