Application of the electrohydrodynamic analogy method in the energy efficient management of oil fields exploitation system

The article deals with the problem of increasing the energy efficiency of oil fields exploitation systems. To solve the problem, it is proposed to carry out oil production with the use of an automatic system for the operational control of pump unit electric drives’ operating modes of injection and production wells. It applies an optimizing algorithm for bottomhole pressures based on the energy consumption minimization criterion using an oil deposit mathematical model developed with the help of the electrohydrodynamic analogy method (EHDA). The total of the abovementioned allows producing the most energy efficient oil production technology. The substantiation of the EHDA method applicability to making computer models for oil fields is given. Oil production process modeling in the developed software model was carried out. The obtained data were compared with the modeling results on pre-existing physical models. The research results made the author draw a conclusion on the possibility of applying EHDA method for creating models participating in the energy efficient management system of oil fields exploitation.