Inflow control is a technology
It’s up to us how to make use of this tech
Inflow Control is enabled by amazing nozzles in a cased hole
Innovative nozzles provide active and passive inflow control by adaptive pressure drop balanced over the screen
Inflow gas control in the thin oil ring reservoir
Prevent rapid gas inflow in the thin oil ring reservoir in the Norwegian North Sea. Minor differences in the oil and water inflow mixture make it less effective for water inflow control
Inflow water control for heavy oil high water cut production
Popular application scenarios to improve or delay the high water cut for as long as possible with many low-cost nozzles
Do we deploy inflow control correctly to realize potential?
How about sand control of heavy incoming mixture over recompletion? What about the inflow control role in rebalancing reservoir drainage pressure distribution via workflow? We might need to compute.
Inflow control single well mechanistic simulation
We see the concept of slowing the initial gas (red) breakthrough at Hill to favor a balanced inflow profile throughout the completion. We see water coning earlier because of the density similarity to oil. Video animations of water and gas (red color) coning.
Improve Reservoir Inflow Control for the production gains
The actual challenge is to work with inflow control by recognizing the pressure rebalance or pressure recovery mechanisms and balancing pressure fields with sound waterflood inflow patterns.