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SPE Members Abstract Nuclear logging provides petroleum exploration and production companies with data that are critical to their decisions and operations. Because this type data is so important, environmentally conscious well-logging and service companies are constantly reviewing the risks to people ...
Abstract High-angle wells are becoming coin inon place, particularly in offshore areas. Because of this, it particularly in offshore areas. Because of this, it has become important to increase the deviation angles at which wells can be conventionally logged. Moreover, firm planning factors are needed ...
Abstract Since 1997 Saudi Aramco has attempted drilling its hard and ultra-abrasive Pre-Khuff formations typically encountered from 13,000 to 17,000 ft TVD in and about the Ghawar field of Saudi Arabia, with impregnated diamond bits run on high speed turbines, more commonly referred to as ""turbodrills"". The ...
Abstract Amoco recently deployed a Metocean buoy, a directional waverider buoy, four Aandera current meters on a mooring and two upward-looking acoustic Doppler current profilers in the Pearl River Basin Block 29/04 in the South China Sea. This paper describes objectives of the measurement program, ...
Abstract On the 5th of October 2011 the 47,000 tonne container ship MV Rena ran aground on Astrolabe reef approximately 17km west of the Port of Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. The vessel spilt 360 tonnes of Heavy Fuel Oil from a potential 1,700 tonnes and was New Zealand's first ...
Summary This paper highlights the major drilling problems encountered in the field development programmes offshore Malaysia from 1978 to mid-1983. The major problems identified were pipe sticking which was common in all the areas and top hole drilling problems encountered in a few fields offshore Sabah ...
Abstract Emulsified acids were traditionally used in acid fracturing, and more recently on matrix treatments of carbonate formations. The delayed nature of emulsified acids is useful in generating longer etched fractures or deeper wormholes. Emulsified acids also have higher viscosities than straight ...
Abstract In April 1997, TOPCON, a joint venture of Texaco, Chevron and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), spudded the well Funiwa-43ML, offshore Nigeria. This multilateral well, with a level 5 junction, was drilled as a dual horizontal oil producer targeting an 11-foot thick oil column ...
Abstract The offshore industry is constantly being challenged to demonstrate environmental awareness and sound environmental management. Nowhere is this more true than Liverpool Bay off the west coast of the United Kingdom where BHP Petroleum E/R/A/ME Region (BHP), formerly Hamilton Oil Company Ltd, ...
Abstract A distributed processing system was designed to monitor and control special drilling operations. It is fed by five regional centers located across Brazil; all information is also available at the head offices in Rio de Janeiro, where data are grouped. This user-friendly system deals with technical, ...
Abstract eni is committed to operating beyond compliance for biodiversity conservation and the retention of functional ecosystems in all areas and phases of the project lifecycle. In exploration and production (e&p) terms, this means the systematic recognition and integration of biodiversity and ...
Abstract A seven-well development program in the Gulf of Mexico presented several drilling and logistical challenges to the Arena Offshore LLC engineering staff. The high-angle (54°-73°) 9-7/8?? production intervals had shallow kick-off points (in one instance 70° by 3000 ft TVD, 30° average azimuth ...
Abstract This paper demonstrates, via a comprehensively described recent case history, the transfer of established completion technology into the North Sea. Further, in performing the process the technique has been successfully extended beyond its normal criteria of application. Today artificial lift ...
Abstract The Coulomb field is the 6th field of the ultra deepwater GoM Na Kika subsea development. The two subsea tie-back wells in the Coulomb development (the C-2 and the C-3) were completed in April and May of 2004, in 7,570' of water depth. When completed, the Coulomb wells held the industry ...
Abstract When frontier region communities and governments are first faced with oil and gas exploration and development they are often fearful of the implications and largely reactive, trying to stop it or limit its negative social, economic and environmental effects, while at the same time still hoping ...
Abstract The study presented herein has covered improved regulatory measures with regards to environmental management and control in the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry. The study has focused on the efficiency of the regulatory measures with respect to: - The predictability of the measures ...
Abstract In petroleum exploration, reservoir navigation is used for reaching a productive reservoir and placing the borehole optimally inside the reservoir to maximize production. For proper well placement, it is necessary to calculate in real-time parameters of the formation we are drilling in, and ...
Abstract With rig costs and other time-sensitive completion costs rising, offshore operators must continually find ways to reduce operating costs while minimizing risk. Frac packing often involves expensive fluids, proppant and equipment. Single-trip multi-zone sand control completion systems are not ...
Abstract A new generation of multi-lobe positive displacement mud motors designed in the USSR has been used in Europe since early 1981. A comprehensive range of experience has already demonstrated the importance and potential of this development for a wide variety of drilling applications. This paper ...
Abstract Wells in Saudi Arabia, onshore and offshore, often require workover because of the highly corrosive environment to which the downhole equipment is subjected. During these operations, the downhole equipment often must be repaired or replaced. To maintain well control during these workovers, ...