Application nonparametric criteria in the analysis of oil fields development

ABSTRACT

Waterflood or pressure maintenance project is considered one of several methods of enhanced oil recovery, which is widely being used in oil fields. Water injection efficiency analysis is very important for operation future plan and finds out if any opportunity is available to improve project performance. The conventional methods beside nonparametric criteria have been applied in this research in order to evaluate water injection operation. Gini coefficient analysis has been used to illustrate the water injection impact in terms of oil and water production trends over the time of injection operation.

KEYWORDS:

• Reservoir performance
• analysis
• diagnosis
• water injection
• Gini coefficient