Kikeh Development: Delivering World Class Completion Performance

Abstract

The Kikeh Development is the first major deepwater project in Malaysia, located offshore Sabah in 1,320m water depth. This 34 well oil development includes Dry Tree Unit (Spar) and subsea producers as well as gas and water injectors.The Kikeh Field architecture, as well as its subsurface characteristics, required many different completion types to meet the project goals. Early wellbore construction design and rig selection focused on performance while still achieving subsurface strategic requirements. Throughout the design and implementation, many challenges were met in upscaling suppliers to meet deepwater completion needs and managing multiple external interfaces. Great emphasis was placed on working as many activities as possible offline. In addition, lessons learned were captured and implemented immediately, thereby shortening the learning curve impact. This paper will discuss how these early decisions benefited long-term performance and will describe the grassroots effort for deepwater completion implementation in a new region of the world. Lastly, focus will be on the completion performance, including time, non-productive time and skin describing methodology and techniques used to deliver the Kikeh Development with world-class time and skin results.