ABSTRACT Thin oil rim reservoirs are reservoirs whose payzone is in the range of 15 50 ft depth.

. These types of reservoirs, as they are so called are characterised by their thin payzones which present producing companies with certain challenges which often make them unattractive candidates for exploitation at first glance. The fact remains however, that they often times contain considerable amount of oil that can be recovered profitably. They are quite common in many oil regions throughout the world and can exist in different configurations where they may be found with either an overlying gas cap and/or an underlying bottom water support. Production from these fields present some challenges as early water coning and gas breakthrough lead to uneconomic depletion. In some other instances, for reservoirs possessing sizable gas caps overlying the oil rim, production may lead to oil migration into gas zone with the attendant loss to production due to saturation in the gas zone. The aim of this research will be to identify and thereafter proffer reservoir-based solutions to some of the technical problems associated with thin oil rim reservoirs in order to optimise production from these fields and thus make them profitable. Approach to solving the question of water and gas coning in reservoirs in this research is largely by numerical simulations, using the Schlumberger Eclipse 100 black oil simulator. Attempts are also made in instances to correlate solutions with results from earlier derived correlations by authors in this area.