Evaluating Connected Reservoir Volume for Optimizing Reservoir Management in Farragon Field, an Offshore North Sea New Development

The Farragon field, discovered in April 2003, is a low relief,<br>pancake shaped reservoir located in the UK sector of the<br>North Sea. This relatively small offshore field was developed<br>with two sub-sea horizontal wells tied to existing production<br>facilities. Initially the light 34 °API oil was produced by<br>natural flow and subsequently gas-lift has been used for<br>artificial lift. A few months after first oil, the field was<br>consistently achieving production rates higher than predicted<br>which led to a decision to enhance the application of early<br>extensive reservoir engineering studies aiming to better<br>understand the reservoir mechanism, volumes in place and<br>their implications for field depletion plans.