First note of this blog

I've been a Reservoir Engineer for slightly over 6 years now. Been with the current Oil & Gas company for over 8 years.
After my maternity leave in May, I was given my 4th field to work on, apart from the field I've been working on before the maternity leave.
New project always excite me. This new project is an oil field, just started production about 3 years ago.
My task is to construct a new dynamic model for the field, incorporating data acquired from development wells and production data. This numerical simulation model should (note: should) be more representative than the pre-development, pre-production model as more data had been acquired from the drilling campaign onwards.
Personal challenge for me in this project:
1. This will be the first time I'll be constructing a numerical simulation model (dynamic model) from scratch.
2. The pre-development model was already a good, representative model. It was built my a darn good reservoir engineer, a colleague of mine. The reason the model needs to be updated is because we got new data from development drilling and production. Another strong reason is because the pre-dev model was pessimistic than actual condition (it predicts water-breakthrough should have started by last year, but in actual those well that was forecasted to water-out by now are still producing good clean oil). For a hydrocarbon field, this is good news. (bad news is when simulation model predict wells still produce good clean oil but in reality the wells have been watered-out). So boss wants a simulation model which imitate the actual production in closer accuracy.

I'm scared and excited at the same time.

I've jotted down the to-do list for this field. For the next several months, the tasks gonna be:
1. Fluid Characterization Analysis (PVT Analysis)
2. Rock properties Analysis
3. Pressure Plot and pressure trending
4. QC production data
5. Read the Post-Drilling Report and extract necessary data

I'm still on item No. 1 , so today I'm going to continue the PVT analysis.
Just 3 samples (I've worked on 10 for another oil field before) - but my pre-liminary analysis on all 3 indicates that the lab result does not meet the actual well test data *sigh*.

Anyway, with each challenge comes creativity. So we'll figure out the best way to cope, I know we will :)