ASSESSING WHETHER TO MODIFY A PIPE SYSTEM

摘要

Disclosed techniques for deciding whether to modify a pipe system accessing a petroleum reservoir include: measuring at least one characteristic of a flow of fluid in the pipe system; representing the at least one characteristic of the flow of fluid as an unrestricted pipe flow equation that is active when a constriction device is not active; representing a constraint on the flow of fluid provided by the at least one constriction device by a constraint equation that is active when the constriction device is active; introducing a first slack variable into the unrestricted pipe flow equation and a second slack variable into the constraint equation; iteratively solving a system of equations including the unrestricted pipe flow and constraint equations; modeling a potential modification of the pipe system; and determining, based on the modeling, whether to implement the potential modification of the pipe system.