This training course is designed for engineers and field personnel involved in the production engineering, reservoir engineering, G and G, and production operations. It presents a complete overview of idle well and mature fields in the oil and gas industry. Mature field, also known as brownfield, is a field that is in a state of declining production or reaching the end of its productive live. These fields are considered the “backbone” of the industry, especially in Indonesia where discovery of new field is something we do not hear for quite long. According to a report from Cambridge Energy Research Associates, about two-thirds of the world’s daily oil production comes from mature fields.
Why today the majority of oil companies are focusing on maximizing the recovery factor (RF) from their oilfields as well as maintaining an economic oil rate? This is because it is becoming increasingly difficult to discover new oilfields, many problems we encounter for exploration phase, either economical or funding regulations. Furthermore, recently Indonesian Government set the goal to increase the national production be 1 million bopd and 12 MM scf/day by year 2030. Therefore, sustaining production from mature fields is becoming an uphill task in the after storm of pandemic covid-19 plus economic crisis.
