Integrated Reservoir Management for the Long Term-The Carpinteria Offshore Field

The Carpinteria offshore field, Santa Barbara, California, has produced more than 100 million barrels of oil to date. This mature field has continued operations in an economically and politically challenging environment that finally resulted in the abandonment of the field's California state leases by the lease holder. The aban doned leases, together with adjoining federal leases, are now operated by an independent producer. Los Alamos National Laboratory has joined with that independent operator, Pacific Operators Offshore, and with the State Lands Com mission of California and the Minerals Management Service in a unique collabora tive effort to redevelop the mature field. This project is a part of a larger umbrella project, the Advanced Reservoir Management project (ARM), that is designed to demonstrate the worth of advanced computational tools and state-of-the-art methods for independent oil and gas producers. The Carpinteria Reservoir Redevelop ment project takes a long-term view of reservoir manageme...