Title
Dynamic model of risk assessment for mature fields
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Abstract
Risk assessment is one of the crucial tasks to accurately account for estimating and booking technical recoverable volumes, as well as, valuating a petroleum asset. Usually these processes are affected by project maturity or non-technical issues, and usually embrace uncertainty due to lack of information and different criteria adopted by company and/or evaluators. It is believed that deterministic cash flow methods are suitable and accurate to assess a project portfolio in mature oilfields. However, even in the very well known fields with strict surveillance plans, there is still uncertainty associated to volumes of recoverable hydrocarbons, oil & gas prices, capital investment estimations, government-take share among others input variables of economic models. It is proposed a new approach for mature fields which includes a probabilistic model of reserves estimation (either applied for volumetric calculations or performance-data-based dynamic methods), an scenario matrix to account for the risk expressed in expectation curves, an estimation of the "pseudo-limiting" risk and value terms, and a decision tree to define a hierarchy of portfolio. Furthermore, it is proposed a methodology of life-cycle assessment and surveillance of reserves estimation by integrating of the "pseudo-limiting" risk and the ratio expected value to capital investment. The application of this methodology in a mature oilfield, the Peruvian Block IX, show that proposed infill drilling campaign would require a better royalty share for the company (40% additional to the current rate), while the implementation of a pilot Water flooding project would need an improve by 50% in current royalty share. Copyright 2014, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Start page
1720
End page
1744
Volume
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería del Petróleo, (combustibles, aceites), Energía, Combustibles
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84908472002
ISBN of the container
9781632668882
Conference
SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings
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