Not so many years ago, such dynamic information
was almost exclusively provided by specific field
operations (well tests), that would determine important
reservoir characteristics such as well productivity
and sometimes reservoir boundaries, in an area
around the well that depended on the duration of
such operations.
For KAPPA it was the time of Saphir, our Pressure
Transient Analysis software.
Today, safety and economics combined with
technological developments mean that we need and
are actually able to acquire, analyze, visualize and
model on any scale in terms of time and dimension.
We have to make use of whatever data we can
get to piece together the dynamic model. Couple
this with the fact that reservoirs are of increasing
physical complexity, data-flow can be enormous and
economics or lack of resources can limit the time
spent on processing and analysis and there was a
need to develop an integrated tool suite to visualize,
organize and analyze dynamic data on any scale
or complexity.
For KAPPA it is the time of Ecrin, the integrated
engineering workstation, the surveillance tool KAPPA
Server and the visualization tool KAPPA VIZ.
The KAPPA suite offers a workflow from the simplest
near wellbore analytical analysis to the most complex
full-field numerical cases with exotic geometry and
fluids. Adopted by almost all IOCs, NOCs, Service
Companies and Independents the KAPPA suite is
simple to use, robust and subject to an aggressive
technical development program that will see it
continue to develop fit for purpose tools integrated
with third party workflows and massive data that
face the industry.
KAPPA is 25 years old, privately owned, fiercely
independent and totally committed to technical
development.
We need static data (seismic, logs, etc), but until we start to physically
move the fluid in the reservoir and measure the response we cannot get
the dynamic information that will allow us to model and predict the value
of what we have.
DYNAMIC DATA: A DEFINITION
Whenever a fluid is produced or injected into the
reservoir, the diffusion produces changes in pressure
and temperature that may be recorded in various
places. Combine this data with the production
and /or injection rates and we have what we call
Dynamic Data. Analysis and modeling of this data
leads to a better understanding of the reservoir
dynamics and the well performance, which in turn
allows decision making and proper forecasting.
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