Role of Integrated Asset Modeling in Optimizing Na Kika Production

BP uses Integrated Asset Models (IAM) in many of its producing assets to improve its understanding of field performance, to predict fluid flow behavior, troubleshooting and optimizing both short and long term reservoir and well performance issues. BP’s use of IAM technology is typically fit for purpose with model complexity dictated by factors such as asset size and complexity of the problem. The paper will describe how the modeling approach taken by assets with a large well count but low individual well production rates differs from the approach taken by assets with a few high rate wells.