Implementation of Intelligent Well Completions Within a Sand Control Environment

Moore, W.R.; Konopczynski, Michael; Nielsen, Victoria Jackson

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“…The value of the intelligent well technologies comes from their capability to actively modify the zonal completions and performance through downhole flow control, and to monitor the response and performance of the zones through real-time downhole data acquisition, thereby maximizing the value of the asset (Moore, W. R., Konopczynski, M. R. and Jackson-Nielson, V. Et al, 2002)..…”

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Intelligent Completions and Horizontal Wells Increase Production and Reduce Free-Gas and Water in Mature Fields

Rodríguez

Figueroa

2010

SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference

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The maturity of the giant fields has resulted in a large number of complex operational and reservoir management problems. The reservoirs pressure has substantially dropped as a natural outcome of the accelerate production rhythm sustained by the field during the productive life. The gas-oil contact and oil-water contact have reached the production intervals in many wells. Horizontal wells have proved to be a valid alternative to drain narrow oil columns in this naturally fractured reservoir. To be able to recover the reserves at sufficiently high rates, new ideas and state of the art technologies need to be implemented to innovate the production process, particularly well completions, to maintain the oil production plateau. In the mature fields the objective is to maximize production rates to effectively drain the reserves, while minimizing intervention costs. Intelligent wells will be used to increase productivities and recoveries in a less expensive manner, and to significantly reduce the production of free gas and water. The proposed innovative completion system consists of remotely actuated flow control systems with permanent downhole gauges to permanently monitor the production variables and take actions in real time. This alternative is significantly more effective than the traditional procedure, consisting of selective completions that require expensive subsea interventions to close one zone to open the next one. In this work, the applicability of multi-purpose intelligent completions for highly productive oil reservoirs has been evaluated from both, the productivity and the operational standpoints. Mandrels will be fitted with intelligent gas lift valves that can be operated from the surface, using downhole gauges for reservoir and production surveillance. Design criteria will be discussed in detail to verify that every productivity case is fully optimized.

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Intelligent Completions and Horizontal Wells Increase Production and Reduce Free-Gas and Water in Mature Fields

Rodríguez

Figueroa

2010

SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference

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“…5,6 The lower and middle fracpacks are commingled and controlled as single interval. • The overbalanced perforating method worked well.…”

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Canyon Express: Design and Experience on High-Rate Deepwater Gas Producers Using Frac-Pack and Intelligent Well Completion Systems

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Stimatz

Nielsen³

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Subsea well completion design and implementation in TotalFinaElf's Aconcagua Field and Marathon Oil Company's Camden Hills Field posed unprecedented challenges. Water depths in the area of planned development (up to 7209 ft) were greater than for any well previously completed in the world. Limited gas reserves in this high-cost, deepwater environment precluded future economic intervention, so the completion design had to balance the potential complexity of multiplezone production with high life-of-well reliability. Conducting the completions from a dynamically positioned (DP) drilling vessel, which had not yet been done at the time completion planning was underway, presented additional challenges. The extensive pre-planning, preparation for contingencies (for both the installation and production phases), and application of lessons learned for continuous improvement throughout the six-well installation program are presented in this paper. Because of limited space, only the most essential lessons can be discussed here.

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“…These valves are activated from surface by applying hydraulic pressure ("direct hydraulic") transmitted via control lines (C/L) penetrating tubing hanger and packer. For three valves four C/Ls are needed (one to control each valve individually, one shared return line) 19,20 .…”

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Rapid Pressure Support for Champion SE Reservoirs by Multi-Layer Fractured Water Injection

Sommerauer

Zerbst

2006

SPE Asia Pacific Oil &Amp; Gas Conference and Exhibition

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TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractThe Champion field is a large oil field offshore Negara Brunei Darussalam. This paper discusses thefor us -novel application of multi-layer fractured water injection into three shallow reservoirs in the Champion Southeast field (CPSE). The project is part of a larger secondary recovery implementation scheme and future efforts to increase economic oil production and ultimate recovery in the whole Champion field.The main boundary condition for the rapid water injection project is the use of existing infrastructure with the exception of three new water pipelines and nine new wells. This paper describes the following:• Reservoir setting and production history.• Water injection philosophy.• Design considerations for fractured water injection including: o Pressure requirement to design for fractured water injection. o Simulation of fracture growth and containment and resulting conclusions. • Design considerations for the multi-layer fractured water injector wells including: o Selected Drilling Aspects (well trajectory, drill-in fluid, formation evaluation, casing scheme). o Completion Design Considerations (clean-out, perforating, sand control, selectivity, "smartness", other). o Material selection. One of the main conclusions is that fracture growth and containment is not a major issue in soft, high-permeable formations. The main challenge is in drilling the sometimes-demanding well trajectories and running the ("smart") completions in these wells with small tolerances.

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Implementation of Intelligent Well Completions Within a Sand Control Environment

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

Intelligent Completions and Horizontal Wells Increase Production and Reduce Free-Gas and Water in Mature Fields

Intelligent Completions and Horizontal Wells Increase Production and Reduce Free-Gas and Water in Mature Fields

Canyon Express: Design and Experience on High-Rate Deepwater Gas Producers Using Frac-Pack and Intelligent Well Completion Systems

Rapid Pressure Support for Champion SE Reservoirs by Multi-Layer Fractured Water Injection

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