Understanding how fluids (oil, gas, water) interact with rock environments is critical to oil & gas exploration and development. By relating subsurface fluid dynamics to basin evolution and fluid composition in a reservoir, hydrodynamics provides early recognition of resource plays and associated sweet spots. It also leads to increased resolution of transition zones to reduce the risk of water and the ability to identify by-passed oil with tilted oil/water contact analysis
Unconventional Resources Application
- Correlate pressure to storage
- Correlate pressure to rates and recovery
- Determine overpressure zones with lower probability of water
Conventional Applications
- Calculate gas/oil/water contacts—including tilted oil/water contacts
- Determine fluid densities at reservoir condition
- Map reservoir continuity and permeability barriers
- Interpret geological trends
Deliverables
- Pressure/depth ratio maps
- Pressure/elevation graphs (including liquids distribution)
- Hydraulic head maps
- Play fairway maps highlighting exploration opportunities
- Isotherm maps
- Geothermal gradient maps
- Wet gas index and liquids yield maps
- Temperature/depth graphs
CDL and Rakhit Petroleum Consulting Ltd. have spent over 35 years building a proprietary library comprising over 195 hydrodynamics studies and aiding clients in nearly 20 countries around the world.
Representative hydrodynamics studies available for purchase:
