oa Production Monitoring and Surveillance

An ongoing focus area for Saudi Aramco is the optimum field development and depletion of the mobile oil in the tar area, which is limited in extent and occurs mainly along of the periphery of the southeast flank of the field. Unlike many tar mats in other fields, the tar in this field is patchy and has a complex distribution in the reservoir. In addition, areal and vertical tar extensions reveal great variations along with the existence of fractures in the area which imposes difficulties on the reservoir characterization as well as predicting fluid flow behavior.