The drilling strategy of North Kuwait has embraced in the last few years to get more reservoir contact to maximize oil recovery. Presently, the wells are drilled with high deviation angle to intersect multiple pay zones and drain the existing prospects. However, water coning and edge water breakthrough are challenging to achieve production longevity. Inflow Control Devices (ICD) is a proved tool in oil industry, which can delay the water encroachment by creating uniform drawdown across wellbore section. The production performance of ICD wells indicated stability of water cut for longer period as designed. Answer products is the key to monitor downhole production profile to ensure the functionality of ICD units. Some reservoirs are suffering from pressure depletion and artificial lift (ESP) was installed to deepest point to increase pump efficiency. This type of completions is limiting accessibility to collect downhole data for further action. Besides, after period if the water shutoff is required, the well intervention inside ICD completion is challenging due to bore size limitation and materials availability. Proactive action was taken to utilize the advanced technology of ICD Completion, which allows faster execution of Rigless shutoff and reduce Rigs demands.

As a part of KOC policy to bring recent technologies, two locations were drilled successfully using the concept of PAD. The PAD Drilling project was conceptualized initially to address surface constraints for upcoming locations due to congestion of flow lines and environmental reasons through a feasibility study conducted in 2005 by KOC. “Cluster Drilling” offers the opportunity to drill multiple locations from a common area “PAD” and this results in more compact operational area for well placement, flow line construction, less foot print area besides complimentary reasons like less rig move time, improve well monitoring during operational surveillance when the wells would be producing. This approach of PAD Drilling was completely new to KOC, and requires special Drilling Rigs, new HSE regulations and new approved flow line regulations to handle such wells' cluster. Because of short space among the producing wells, workover operations become challenging and require developing new Simultaneous Operations procedures (SIMOPS) to keep the work under safe conditions. Series of meetings with concerned departments have been conducted and discussed all HSE aspects to secure the operations. Checklist has been prepared and approved. Using this new SIMOPS Procedures, The first workover operation on PAD was implemented successfully in Nov 2013 with no incidents. The wells were connected back on production with total production rate of 6000 BOPD. This topic has been endowed CEO HSSE Award 2014.