When data is thin and models are uncertain, the strongest argument for any reservoir decision is a comparable field that already lived the answer. A structured analogue database turns that argument into a workflow — not a war story.
What a useful analogue record contains
- Reservoir: rock type, depth, pressure, temperature, drive.
- Fluids: oil API, viscosity, GOR, salinity, brine composition.
- Development: well count, spacing, completion, lift method.
- Recovery: history, EOR method, incremental performance.
- Operational notes: surface, HSE, what failed, what worked.
How analogues plug into decisions
- EOR screening: shortlist methods that worked in comparable fields.
- Frac campaign design: pull fracture geometry and proppant decisions from analogues.
- Acidizing: pull diversion strategy from similar interval lengths and skin patterns.
KEMISIM's analogue study software is built around this workflow with curated global coverage of EOR, stimulation and integrity case histories.