PIPESIM

WELL AND PIPELINE SIMULATION

sing the integration
capabilities of
Avocet* Integrated
Asset Modeler software,
engineers can test enhanced
production and completion
scenarios to help oil and
gas producers increase
predicted ultimate recovery.
Whether planning early
production wells or designing surface facilities, the
ability to tap into the most
advanced well and pipeline
simulation scenarios promotes better diagnostics
for enhanced recovery
techniques. PIPESIM* well
design and production performance analysis, coupled
with the power of ECLIPSE*
reservoir simulation, protects
huge capital-intensive projects with more complete
modeling capabilities to
support better management
decisions.

ECLIPSE simulator technology, combined

through Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler
with PIPESIM production and optimal
completion analysis software, allows
more realistic well models in multiphase simulation scenarios. The software combination supports branched
or multilateral segments, complicated
completions, and inclusion of intelligent
downhole controls within the simulation.
PIPESIM software tools not only model
multiphase flow from the reservoir to the
wellhead, they also analyze flowline and
surface facilities performance to generate a comprehensive production system
analysis. These comprehensive tools are
simple to use, with easy import features
and a visual-rich output that engineers
and managers require.

Evaluating well performance

Nodal analysis forms the basis for evaluating well performance and maximizing
intelligent completions. It is key to understanding the behavior and sensitivity of
the system. PIPESIM software allows
engineers to perform sensitivity analyses
on any system variable, plotting the
inflow and outflow at any nodal point
in the system. A comprehensive nodal
analysis at any point indicates where
production opportunities might exist.
PIPESIM well design and production
software offers
specific operations to generate performance tables for reservoir simulators
standard pressure and temperature
profiles

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standard completion model types (for

vertical, horizontal, and fractured wells)
complex multilayered completion
models, using different reservoir inflow
parameters and fluid descriptions
a multiphase flow correlation feature
to identify the most suitable correlation
for analysis
various produced fluid models
black-oil or a wide range of equationof-state compositional modelsfor
more accurate modeling.

Determining optimal artificial

lift methods
PIPESIM sophisticated sensitivity tools
enable analysis of artificial lift parameters, including injection gas and ESP
stages, to obtain the most suitable lift
method for optimal production.
The versatility of PIPESIM software
when designing gas lift includes
industry-standard methods for gas
lift design
installed mandrel spacing and valve
selectionwith the ability to redesign
valve placement with mandrels in place

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manufacturers valve database

ESP manufacturers pump performance curves, motors, and cables databaseeasily updated to match actual
pump performance or to add new
pumps.

Creating complex field development strategies

For advanced planning, PIPESIM software can generate enhanced well performance and multiphase pipeline design
models for full-field network analysis,
field planning, and production optimization. These robust solutions can model
gathering, distribution, and injection
networks.
PIPESIM tools provide network analysis
capabilities that include
identifying production bottlenecks
and constraints
assessing the benefits of new wells,
additional pipelines, and compression
systems
calculating the deliverability from field
gathering systems

predicting pressure and temperature

profiles through complex flow paths
planning for full-field development.
Once a production network is constructed,
PIPESIM capabilities can introduce the
element of time to analyze the effect of
reservoir performance on the entire field
development strategy. Optimal time-based
and conditional-event logic representation
for daily field development operations
can be used to evaluate
drilling new developmental wells
installing additional processing
facilities over time
choke-adjusted wells to meet
production and operating limits
shutting in depleting wells as reservoir
conditions decline.
This winning combination of PIPESIM
software, ECLIPSE reservoir simulators,
and Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler
handles more complexity, faster, when
developing well design and pipeline
simulation analyses.

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