The completion of a highly deviated well involves overcoming significant deployment challenges during the drilling operations that require precise and effective conveyance and intervention. The conventional slickline intervention is unsuitable for wells with more than 60° deviation. The operator has sought to implement efficient, reliable and cost-effective deployment methods in delivering injector well. Thus, the operator decided on the e-line tubing tractor conveyed with e-line key and an e-line stroking tool. A tubing tractor and mechanical key and stroker were used to convey the wireline key in highly deviated wells. The key and stroker tools are latched into the sliding side doors (SSDs). They will activate open or close SSDs by down-strokes or up-strokes. In particular, the SSDs are closed when it is required to pressure up the tubing to set the packers. After the packers are set, an integrity test is conducted to confirm zonal isolation. Finally, the SSD is shifted open by the tubing tractor and a low rate injection test is performed to confirm the status of the SSD before handover the well. The operation had successfully installed multiple zones injection completions (MZC) in a highly deviated well and complemented the new completion design for the sand control in water injection well. The e-line tubing tractor and well key/stroker tools have met all operational and budgetary expectations. The traditional intervention methods in highly deviated wells, such as coil tubing, can be costly and potentially infeasible due to a footprint constraint on the drilling rig. The completion was successfully installed without any HSSE issues and the lesson learnt was recorded for future interventions when a change of injection zones is required. For a water injector completion design, equipment was selected based on reservoir requirements i.e. sand control, injection rates and pressure, etc. The goal was to prevent sand from flowing into the tubing when water injection is temporarily paused. To address this concern, the team designed and implemented a cost- effective Autonomous Inflow Control Device (AICD) with bypass valves equipped with SSDs for injection zone selectivity. This first well has been on injection for more than two years with no sand observed in the tubing or declines in the injection rate. The e-line tubing tractor and well key/stroker tools enabled the success of this operations and should be an option for completions in highly deviated wells. Additionally, this is the first time an AICD with bypass valves has been installed for a water injection well in the Gulf of Thailand. The success achieved with this operation in the Nong Yao field provides operators with a new solution for dealing with the water injection in the unconsolidated reservoirs.

Regaining sand control integrity in existing completions has been become an increasing challenge to overcome in recent years. Sand control challenges can occur over the life of the well, in the initial completion design, failure of existing downhole equipment or due to increased water production in later life. All of which need to be addressed using a technology which does not succumb to the same fate as any existing technology. Conventional remedial sand control methods vary in complexity, cost, risk, longevity and have associated weaknesses often resulting in reduced production. A novel thru tubing remedial sand control solution has recently been deployed for an operator in Indonesia which can be run on coil tubing or slickline. It is designed to transit tight restrictions within the upper completion and still set and conform to larger casing/screen IDs where control of sand has been lost. The key to the technology is the use of a unique conformable open cell matrix polymer (OCMP) as the sand retention layer which enables the tool to be fully compressed during deployment but will enlarge when at depth, filling the annular gap. The OCMP creates a tortuous flow path and the polymeric nature of the filter removes the energy out of any sand grain impingement reducing erosional effects. We present a review of three recent well interventions in both oil and gas wells that utilized this technology.

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This paper describes a pilot program for the application of an Autonomous Inflow Control Device (AICD) by retrofitting an existing ICD completion for reservoir optimization. New drill horizontal wells were required to be completed with AICD's to enhance recovery with existing ICD completion materials in inventory desired to be used. The workflow for establishing the decision change from ICD to AICD completion and the completion design process change is discussed. The well program was selected to demonstrate the effectiveness of AICDs in the Jasmine asset, a current field development in Thailand. ICD screens had previously been purchased for a different application but were unused. To reduce overall project cost and asset inventory, a method of utilization the existing ICD screens was strongly desired. An evaluation was done, followed by design and development of a manufacturing process to retrofit the ICD screens with larger sized AICD housing. Furthermore, overall completion design was implemented to ensure a smooth deployment and optimized production benefit. Multiple joints of existing ICD screens were successfully retrofitted with AICD technology locally within the region. The operator was able to reduce current inventory book levels by 20% that resulted in a direct cost saving of 40% comparing to new AICD screen cost. The field deployment of the retrofit completion was a success without any operational issues. Despite the improved productivity and uplift in reserve recovery associated with horizontal wells, reservoir heterogeneity can cause uneven production and early water and gas breakthrough from portions of the wellbore. The AICD delivers a variable flow restriction in response to the properties (viscosity) of the fluid with water or gas flow restricted. With multiple segmentation along the horizontal section in this application, excessive production of unwanted gas and water have been limited. Installed in late 2017 and another application in 2018, production from the wells have exceeded expectation, with an uplift in recovery.