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SPE Members Abstract This paper reviews through-tubing recompletion technology, the isolation and/or addition of perforations in a wellbore without pulling the existing production equipment. Topics covered include through-tubing plugbacks and bridge plugs, coiled tubing cementing and through-tubing ...
Proposal The Gulf of Thailand (GOT) has been producing oil and gas for approximately twenty four years and, at present, water production is becoming a serious dilemma for some operators.Because most of the production from the GOT is from co-mingled monobores, having multiple pay sands of highly variable ...
Abstract Conventional drillstrings frequently pose problems when used to drill relatively small size holes. Pin Up, a new, simple technology, affords economical solutions to problematic hole sizes and conditions. The improvement realized by using Pin Up drillstrings is helping the industry drill higher ...
Abstract The Barents Sea is an environmentally important ecosystem defined as part ofthe Arctic.The Norwegian environmental regulation is particular strictfor this area, a zero discharge regime prevails.This paper describes thechallenges of entering the area for exploration drilling.With referenceto ...
Abstract A model is developed to characterize wireline formation tester sticking fromquantitative analyses of the most prevalent sticking modes. An appropriatedescription of differential pressure sticking mechanics for stationary loggingtools and cables forms the foundation of the model, and a supplementalformulation ...
Abstract Up until today operators have been facing a challenge on how to place memory gauges as close to the perforations as possible when collecting data to perform pressure transient analysis. Various methods have been used including hanging the memory gauges in nipple profiles or below a retrievable ...
Abstract The introduction of a new downhole digital technology has the potential to revolutionize well intervention operations through performance management, faster decision cycles and organizational change. The new system has the ability to send real-time downhole data from well intervention operations ...
Abstract This presentation discusses the health, safety and environmental risks associated with the deployment of nuclear logging services while drilling (LWD). During these operations, radioactive sources are inserted into logging tools which are run in hole as part of the drill string bottom-hole ...
Abstract The oil industry's search for new hydrocarbon accumulations has led to the drilling of ever deeper wells, normally under harsh conditions that involve high pressures, temperatures and mechanical pressures, temperatures and mechanical strengths as well as sour gas production. In order ...
Abstract Two gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea are planned to be constructed during the period 2010-2012. The pipeline system will enable an annual transportation of 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas from Russia to the European gas grid. Comprehensive studies ...
Abstract Major measures have been taken during the past thee years by the Convention for the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic (known as OSPAR), a legally binding Convention which came into force in 1998 and plays a key role regarding environmental regulations in the North ...
Abstract Sabriya 72 (SA-72) is a deep vertical high pressure well originally drilled in North Kuwait in 1983 which was temporarily abandoned due to stuck pipe. The last intermediate casing was set prematurely above the base of a critical highly pressured salt section. Due to the importance of the SA-72 ...
Abstract Catastrophic failure of tool joints caused by over torque often results in box swelling severe enough to prevent fishing with an overshot. Double shoulder tool joints are stronger in torsion than conventional joints and swelling that does occur during catastrophic failure is small and would ...
Abstract Subsidence Induced Casing Doglegs (SICDogs) occur in many oil reservoirs worldwide. Doglegging, at a minimum, leads to reduced mean time between failures of rod pumped wells. SICDog remediation techniques in the past have had limited success and are relatively expensive procedures. Most of ...
Abstract The passage of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1969 and heightened concern Policy Act (NEPA) in 1969 and heightened concern for the environment has led to increased government regulation, especially in environmentally sensitive areas such as the Georges Bank, The Flower Gardens, ...
Abstract The Petroleum Act from 1985 established the requirements for preparing Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) for both the exploration and operation phase of the petroleum activity on the Norwegian shelf The EIAs prepared separately for each new development project has received increasing ...
Abstract Recent technological advances in inflatable packing element design has allowed non-conventional workover techniques to be accomplished through the production tubing. The improved capabilities of these production tubing. The improved capabilities of these elements, coupled with new tool designs ...
The use of the diamond drill as a means of securing information onstructural geology in connection with oil exploration was advocated for severalyears prior to actual field trial. As far as we know George E. Burton, a memberof the Institute, and at present geologist for the Humble Oil & RefiningCo., ...
Abstract Put in production in December 1983, North East Frigg (NEF) was the first multiwell Subsea Production System (SPS) developed in the North Sea. The six wells drilled through a subsea template and the control station, an unmanned articulated tower, have been remotely controlled from the Frigg ...
Abstract The Norwegian government issued in 1998 White Paper No. 58 followed by the""Zero discharge report"" requiring the oil industry operating in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea to develop a strategy forreaching ""zero environmental harmful discharges"" of produced water (PW) within 2005. ...