Well placement optimization: A survey with special focus on application for gas/gas-condensate reservoirs

H Nasrabadi, A Morales, D Zhu - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Well placement within a reservoir is a challenging step in the reservoir development
process. Determining the optimal well location is a complex problem involving many factors …

An efficient method for injection well location optimization using fast marching method

R Yousefzadeh, M Sharifi, Y Rafiei - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Well placement is one of the challenging steps in field development optimization. Finding
optimal locations with fewer function evaluations and less time is crucial when dealing with …

Toward investigating the application of reservoir opportunity index in facilitating well placement optimization under geological uncertainty

R Yousefzadeh, M Ahmadi, A Kazemi - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
There have been several attempts to reduce the computational costs associated with well
placement optimization under geological uncertainty by selecting a representative subset of …

Application of particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm for optimization of a southern Iranian oilfield

M Razghandi, A Dehghan, R Yousefzadeh - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Springer
Optimization of the placement and operational conditions of oil wells plays an important role
in the development of the oilfields. Several automatic optimization algorithms have been …

A multilevel coordinate search algorithm for well placement, control and joint optimization

X Wang, RD Haynes, Q Feng - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Determining optimal well placements and controls are two important tasks in oil field
development. These problems are computationally expensive, nonconvex, and contain …

Maximization of a dynamic quadratic interpolation model for production optimization

H Zhao, C Chen, S Do, G Li… - SPE Reservoir Simulation …, 2011 - onepetro.org
We derive and implement a new optimization algorithm based on a quadratic interpolation
model (QIM) for the maximization (or minimization) of a cost or objective function. Although …

Scenario reduction of realizations using fast marching method in robust well placement optimization of injectors

R Yousefzadeh, M Sharifi, Y Rafiei… - Natural Resources …, 2021 - Springer
Choosing a representative subset of realizations can reduce significantly the number of
simulations and the computational cost associated with optimization under geological …

Bi-objective optimization of well placement and controls using stosag

R Lu, F Forouzanfar, AC Reynolds - SPE Reservoir Simulation …, 2017 - onepetro.org
When geological uncertainty is considered in production optimization problem, robust
optimization on a set of plausible reservoir models is essential. We consider biobjective …

Modeling for the optimization of layout scenarios of cluster manifolds with pipeline end manifolds

Y Wang, M Duan, J Feng, D Mao, M Xu… - Applied Ocean …, 2014 - Elsevier
The pipeline end manifold (PLEM) is an important subsea facility, which can greatly reduce
the cost and risk of the development scenarios of deepwater oil and gas fields by declining …

Выбор оптимальной системы разработки для месторождений с низкопроницаемыми коллекторами

ВА Байков, РМ Жданов, ТИ Муллагалиев… - Электронный научный …, 2011 - elibrary.ru
Одной из актуальных задач разработки месторождений является выбор оптимальной
по технико-экономическим параметрам системы разработки. В работе приводится …