Patent ID: 8073665

Claim:
A method for performing an analysis of an oilfield network comprising: (a) collecting oilfield data from a plurality of wellsites in the oilfield network, wherein the oilfield network comprises one or more sub-networks; (b) creating a production model of one of the sub-networks by: (i) identifying a junction of a branch associated with one or more wellsites that are part of the one of the sub-networks; (ii) generating one or more production models for the one or more wellsites using the oilfield data, wherein each production model is based on one or more operational conditions; (iii) combining the production models and one or more properties of the branch to create a production model for the junction, wherein the production model of the one of the sub-networks is created using the production model for the junction; (iv) repeating steps (i)-(iii) for each junction in the one of the sub-networks; (c) repeating step (b) for each sub-network; (d) solving the oilfield network based on the production model of each sub-network to create a production result; and (e) storing the production result.