Kuparuk River field: a regression approach to pseudo-relative permeabilities

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982 · Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6412635

Johnson, J B; Nanney, M M; Killough, J E; Lin, Y T

The Kuparuk River field located about 25 miles west of the Prudhoe Bay Unit, North Slope Alaska, represents a large accumulation of oil spread over a wide areal extent. The large areal extent of the reservoir presented a major difficulty for full scale reservoir simulation of this field especially under waterflood conditions. To overome this difficulty a regression approach was successfully used to match finely-gridded, three-dimensional waterflood models with coarse-grid models. With this technique it was possible to construct a fieldwide model for facilities planning and to study the effect of facilities on ultimate recovery from the reservoir. 6 refs.

• Research Organization: Atl Richfield Co, USA
• OSTI ID: 6412635
• Report Number(s): CONF-820242-
• Journal Information: Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States), Vol. SPE 10531; Conference: 6. symposium on reservior simulation, New Orleans, LA, USA, 1 Feb 1982
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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