US 12,241,339 B2
Method of modelling a production well
Vidar Gunnerud, Oslo (NO); Anders Sandnes, Oslo (NO); and Bjarne Grimstad, Oslo (NO)
Assigned to SOLUTION SEEKER AS, Oslo (NO)
Appl. No. 17/995,797
Filed by SOLUTION SEEKER AS, Oslo (NO)
PCT Filed Apr. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/NO2021/050097
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/206565, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2005239 (GB), filed on Apr. 8, 2020; and application No. 2016983 (GB), filed on Oct. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0167717 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. E21B 43/00 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/00 (2013.01) [E21B 2200/20 (2020.05)] 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a computer system for modelling one hydrocarbon production well of a first plurality of hydrocarbon production wells, the method comprising:
receiving, for each hydrocarbon production well of the first plurality of hydrocarbon production wells, respective data relating to flow parameters of the respective hydrocarbon production well, and/or well parameters of the respective hydrocarbon production well, and/or an associated status of at least one control point in a flow path associated with the respective hydrocarbon production well, wherein the wells of the first plurality of wells are not all connected to a same hydrocarbon reservoir; and
generating, using data-driven modelling, a first data-driven well model that models, for any individual hydrocarbon production well of the first plurality of hydrocarbon production wells: flow parameters of the hydrocarbon production well, and/or well parameters of the hydrocarbon production well, and/or an associated status of at least one control point in a flow path associated with the hydrocarbon production well,
wherein the first data-driven well model is parameterised by a set of first model parameters representative of properties common to all of the first plurality of hydrocarbon production wells, and
wherein generating the first data-driven well model comprises processing the received data in the computer system using data-driven modelling to determine, for each of the first model parameters, a respective value of the first model parameter in dependence upon data received for all of the first plurality of hydrocarbon production wells.