Advancements in Reservoir Management🔒

Last week we invited Alexandra Makrygiannis and Øystein Mølstre to give a session on Advancements in Reservoir Management, focused on reservoir monitoring and production optimisation. The event brought together professionals and students, highlighting the continued development of reservoir technologies on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

The session opened with an interactive quiz to test participants' understanding of key reservoir management concepts. Congratulations to Wilson Wiranda for taking first place and setting an engaging tone for the evening🎫.

Øystein, with extensive experience in well technology and advanced completions and current VP of Inflow Control, presented on inflow control devices (ICDs) and their role in managing reservoir uncertainty. Drawing on decades of field experience, his presentation demonstrated how ICDs can be used to balance inflow, delay water breakthrough and improve sweep efficiency through zonal and pressure-based control.

Alexandra, whose background spans geoscience and currently acts as Business Development Manager at RESMAN, focused on tracers as a tool for subsurface characterisation. Her presentation showed how tracer data can be used to quantify zonal contributions, assess injection-producer connectivity and track fluid movement, providing valuable input for model calibration and product optimisation.

What stood out was how well these two approaches complement each other; tracers diagnose the reservoir, while inflow control devices act on those insights.

The discussion also emphasised the importance of integrating monitoring data with completion strategies, particularly in increasingly complex and heterogeneous reservoirs.

Thank you to both speakers for their insightful contributions, and to all attendees for engaging in the discussion. We look forward to the next event!✨

Sincerely,

EAGE Local Chapter of Stavanger