Example 11-3: The Virginia Hills Beaverhill Lake field is a volumetric undersatured reservoir.

Volumetric calculations indicate the reservoir contains 270,6 MMSTB of oil initially in place.
The initial reservoir pressure is 3685 psi. The following additional data is available:

Swi 0.24
Cw 3.62E-06 psi^-1
Cf 4.95E-06 psi^-1
Bw 1 bbl/STB
Pb 1500 psi
N 270.6 MMSTB

The field production and PVT data are summarized below:

Volumetric No. of producing Bo Np Wp

Average Pressure wells bbl/STB MSTB MSTB
3685 1 1.3102 0 0
3680 2 1.3104 20.481 0
3676 2 1.3104 34.75 0
3667 3 1.3105 78.557 0
3664 4 1.3105 101.846 0
3640 19 1.3109 215.681 0
3605 25 1.3116 364.613 0
3567 36 1.3122 542.985 0.159
3515 48 1.3128 841.591 0.805
3448 59 1.313 1273.53 2.579
3360 59 1.315 1691.887 5.008
3275 61 1.316 2127.077 6.5
3188 61 1.317 2575.33 8

Calculate the initial oil in place by using the MBE and compare with the volumetric estimate of N

4000

3500
f(x) = 291311.140283226x - 65.3355238014
3000

2500

2000

1500

1000
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1500

1000

500

0
0 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008
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place.

delta P Ef,w Eo F Eo + Ef,w

0 0 0 0 0
5 5.0156524737E-05 0.0002 26.8383024 0.0002501565
9 9.0281744526E-05 0.0002 45.5364 0.0002902817
18 0.0001805635 0.0003 102.9489485 0.0004805635
21 0.0002106574 0.0003 133.469183 0.0005106574
45 0.0004514087 0.0007 282.7362229 0.0011514087
80 0.0008025044 0.0014 478.2264108 0.0022025044
118 0.001183694 0.002 712.663917 0.003183694
170 0.0017053218 0.0026 1105.6456648 0.0043053218
237 0.0023774193 0.0028 1674.72389 0.0051774193
325 0.0032601741 0.0048 2229.839405 0.0080601741
410 0.004112835 0.0058 2805.733332 0.009912835
497 0.0049855586 0.0068 3399.70961 0.0117855586

stimate of N

- 65.3355238014

Column K
Linear
(Column K)
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Linear
(Column K)

0.006 0.008 0.01 0.012 0.014