Abstract: A system and method including a sensors deployed in a wellbore, the sensors measuring various downhole parameters. The system retrieves the relevant data from the sensors, validates the data, conditions the data, and analyzes the data to diagnose the wellbore and the reservoir to indicate trends therein. The system has the capability of enabling the characterization of the wellbore and reservoir by being linked to well test analysis tools. The system also has a screening analysis that is much less time consuming than well test analysis tools and that indicates to a user which wellbore and/or reservoirs should be subjected to the more robust and time consuming well test analysis tool.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing well planning and design includes performing a general-level design. The general-level design involves generating a proposed well configuration based on inputs from a user. The proposed configuration, generated by a software module, includes a well trajectory, the reservoir-wellbore interface, and completion equipment. The proposed configuration is refined by an optimizer based on a performance measure or a target constraint.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing well planning and design includes several phases, including a screening phase, a design phase, and an operating phase. The screening phase selects or categorizes candidate wells in addition to performing a general-level design. The general-level design process provides a framework in which a detailed or specific design can be performed. Once a completion system for a selected well has been designed, the operating phase is performed in which measurements taken during operation are fed back to a controller. The controller has access to a conceptual model of the completion system. The measured data is compared to an expected performance based on the model. If adjustments of settings are needed, then the controller issues commands to cause various components of the completion system to be adjusted. If adjustment of settings is not sufficient to achieve the desired level of performance as indicated by the model, then an adjustment of the model may be performed.