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The Hamaca Field, located in Venezuela’s Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt, is a giant extra-heavy oil accumulation operated by Ameriven, an operating agent company for PDVSA, Phillips and ChevronTexaco. Over the 35-year life of the field, more than one thousand horizontal laterals are planned in order to deliver 190,000 BOPD to a heavy-oil upgrader facility. Reservoir models are built to support a broad continuum of activities in order to meet this objective. This paper will review the Hamaca reservoir modeling process, the challenge of integrating many sources of geologic and geophysical constraints including horizontal well information, the focus on continuous model improvement, and issues unique to Hamaca rock and fluid properties. |
