Method for Well Placement Optimization in Oil Field Development

Abstract

A method for well placement optimization to maximize oil production during a given time interval is proposed. The method is based on an empirical approach related to the enumeration of possible well positions, rather than calculating the gradient of the objective function. This provides, on the one hand, effective paralleling of the well placement optimization algorithm and, consequently, acceleration of the method, and, on the other hand, the global extremum of the objective function. The application of the method to well placement using a digital 3D model of an oil field is considered.