«Smart Wells» is a Key to Production Enhancement from Low Permeable Reservoirs

Abstract

Recently the problems of the expansion of "smart wells" in Russia are discussed a lot, but there are still only few real global achievements in this direction. The major reason of the delay of transferring well-known western technology "smart wells" in Russian reality is its high unit cost. However an increase of hydrocarbons production and recovery from low permeable reservoirs using complex completion wells can't be achieved without moving to modern automated systems of «online» wells monitoring and layers control.