Field Development

Planning
Mark Bentley
AGR TRACS Training
Field Development Planning

Objective and Plan

 Objective

To devise a Field Development Plan

for the Lismore Field in the Central
North Sea.
Comprising:
- Analysis and modelling of data from the exploration and
appraisal programme
- Resource estimation and lifecycle production forecast for the
field
- Selection of subsurface and surface engineering plans
- Economic screening
- Reporting and presentation to the board
 The ‘Field Development Plan’

It’s about..

Integration
Field Development Planning

The Field Development Plan

 FDP components

Subsurface Surface
interpretation engineering

Well Economics
engineering & risk
 The E&P life-cycle

500

400
production
cumulative cashflow $million

300

200

100
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
0
Time (years)
-100

Decommissioning
Gaining Access

Development
Exploration

Production
-200
Appraisal

-300

-400

-500
 Decision-making: the stage gate process

Execute Operate
Assess Select Define Execute Operate

The FDP

Project sanction
 The E&P life-cycle

500

400
production
cumulative cashflow $million

300

200

100
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
0
Time (years)
-100

Decommissioning
Gaining Access

Development
Exploration

Production
-200
Appraisal

-300

-400

-500
 FDP workflow – DECC guidelines

Definition The objectives of the FDP

Data Inventorise, review, request additional data (?)

Alternatives Generate alternative subsurface and surface options

Analysis Model the alternatives; investigate implications of each

Select Select the best scheme based on economics and

risk, set against the FDP objectives

Define the project Detail the best option and take to point of sanction

Executive Summary
Introduction
Development scheme
Development schedule
Costs and Licencees
Quantities of petroleum to be
produced
Summary of field management
plan
Decommissioning plan
Commercial arrangements
Trans-boundary impacts
FDP content – DECC guideline
Field Description
Seismic interpretation
Structural configuration
Geological interpretation
Reservoir description
Petrophysics and reservoir fluids
Hydrocarbons in place and
uncertainty analysis
Reservoir units/static modelling
Reservoir drive mechanism
Dynamic modelling
Well placement and completion
design
Uncertainty identification and
management
Improved recovery techniques
and upside opportunities
Development &
Management Plan
Development programme
Reserves
Production profiles
Drilling facilities
Production and process facilities
Project schedule and planning
Drilling
Operations strategy
Decommissioning
Project costs and economics
Field management plan
HSSE
Field Development Planning

The Lismore Field Case Study

 Lismore

“The Salmon of Knowledge”

 Location

Lismore area
Timeframe
 Arbroath
Platform (oil)

Licence position and E&A history

Gannet cluster
(oil and gas)

UK block 29/13

Mature province,
significant
regional
infrastructure
Fulmar
platform (oil & gas)
1 exploration
(discovery) well
Auk
4 appraisal wells platform (oil)

Argyll
Pre-development FPSO (oil)
 Zechstein and Devonian discovery
29/13-1

Top Sele
Top Chalk
BCU

Base Zechstein
 Tested hydrocarbons

Zechstein Well Test

5180

5160

Sand face pressure (psia)

5140

5120

5100

5080

5060

5040
0 10 20 30 40 50
Time (hours)

Devonian : 9124-9134 ft md
5500
5300

Sand face pressure (psia)

5100
4900
4700
4500
4300
4100
3900
3700
3500
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Time (hours)
 Structure
483500 484000 484500 485000 485500 486000 486500 487000 487500 488000

6229000

6229000
0
92
-2
0

Tilted fault block with one -2

93

29/13-5

-2
6228500

6228500
64
0
exploration well (the

-2680
discovery well 29/13-1)

40
-2830
- 28

-2650
-2900910
6228000

6228000
-2

0
-2890
-287

71
and four appraisal wells

-2880

-2
-2

0
0 67

-2
93 0

66
-2

0
(29/13-2, 3, 4 & 5) -28
60
-2850 29/13-2
6227500

6227500
-271

-2880
0

50

-2890
-27

0
74
29/13-4

-2
6227000

6227000
30
-27
20 -2720

-291
-27

-29 930

-2900
20
-2

-282850
- 60
40

-2
- 28

-28200

71
-2710

-283

0
-2810
6226500

6226500
-2800

-2780
-2790
-2770

-2720
-2740
-2760
-2750
29/13-3
6226000

6226000
-27
0

-2930
90

00
0
0
-2

-292 -27

71
10

-2
0
91

-2890

-27 750 2760

-2

-2
40
6225500

6225500
-
-277

-2700
0
-288
0
-2780

-2710
29/13-1
6225000

6225000
-27

-27
90
0
87

20
-280
0
-2

0
86
-2

50

40
-28
- 28

30
-28
6224500

6224500
-2820
0
-281

-2770
-2780
6224000

6224000
483500 484000 484500 485000 485500 486000 486500 487000 487500 488000

0 250 500 750 1000m

Exploration & Appraisal Wells
 Structure – all exploration and appraisal wells

Top Zechstein depth map (3D view)

View from the West

View from the East
View from the South
Field Development Planning

The MSc project

 Structure

Talks - TRACS tutors

Tutorials - TRACS tutors

- department staff

Tasks - group working

- preliminary
Presentation
- final

Report - group working

 People

Mark Bramwell
Petroleum Engineering

Mark Bentley
Geology, reservoir models

Jenny Garnham
Petrophysics

Peter Roberts
Reservoir Engineering, analytical models

Ed Stephens
Reservoir Engineering, simulation

Lesley Parkinson
Training Coordination
 Structure

Talks - TRACS tutors

- TRACS tutors, department staff

Tutorials Centrica, Maersk, Senergy

Tasks - group working

- preliminary
Presentation
- final

Report/exam - group dependent