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Abstract Coiled tubing horizontal drilling technology is quickly moving into new frontiers in the Western Canadian Basin. To this point, most efforts have been focused towards sweet oil reservoirs in the 1000 - 2000 m true vertical depth range. There is an ever-increasing interest in deeper sour plays ...
Abstract Well-11 produced gas from the Kujung-2 and Kujung-3 (K-2 and K-3) carbonate formation of Ujung Pangkah Field. Even though it was producing from the biggest reservoir zone, the well had to be shut in due to watering out in two years. High molecular weight polymer was injected to shut off the ...
SPE Members Abstract First introduced to the Gulf Coast region in 1987, the composite cutter bit is the result of research involving two design enhancements that combine polycrystalline (PDC) and thermally stable (TSP) cutters on one bit. Each polycrystalline (PDC) and thermally stable (TSP) cutters ...
Abstract Deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is a challenging opportunity for drilling fluid performance. Synthetic-based muds (SBMs) applied in the Gulf of Mexico have overcome performance shortfalls of currently available water-based and oil-based muds. This paper will compare environmental, ...
Abstract The paper summarizes application experience and optimization of oil-based drilling fluids for the development of oil and gas condensate fields in the north part of YaNAO area. Key requirements, application criteria, design decisions, advantages and limitations, main features and field application ...
Abstract Caving, sloughing, and swelling shale sections, combined with lost returns below 13-3/8-in. casing, were encountered in an Egyptian well. Before the 12.25-in. hole section was completed, shales packed off the drillstring and part of the bottomhole assembly (BHA) was left in the hole. Casing ...
Abstract An underground blowout in Norwegian North Sea exploration well 2/4-14 was successfully killed by pumping heavy mud into the well from a relief well. pumping heavy mud into the well from a relief well. As part of the kill planning, simulations by use of the dynamic two-phase pipe flow simulator ...
Abstract Barite has to date been the most common weighting material for drillingfluids. Several heavy metal components are associated with the barite. Duringdischarge of drilled cuttings from the use of water based drilling fluid someparts of these heavy metals can be dissolved into the sea. If oil ...
Abstract The aerial extent of the Haynesville Shale play has been analyzed with regard to regulatory and permitting processes such that unavoidable surface impacts can be planned in a manner that allows operators to minimize both risk and cost from operations in environmentally sensitive areas - the ...
ABSTRACT The scale and extent of the Papua New Guinea LNG Project, compounded by the complex and fractionalized multiethnic composition of the population, presents significant challenges to conventional community engagement. Construction requires approximately 2,000 ha of land, comprising two large ...
In 1929 the Standard Oil Company of California commenced the development ofa device for obtaining temperatures and pressures in flowing and shut-in wellsand of suitable running equipment for such a recorder. Although simple inprinciple, the recorder has required much experimental work in its development.The ...
Abstract The oil and gas industry continuously strives to develop tools and techniques to meet and exceed operational objectives with less cost. These efforts have brought about advancements in downhole tools that enhanced slickline technology, making it a more versatile means of providing accurate ...
Abstract As earlier as 1999, the need for industry guidelines regarding the use of coiled tubing (CT) in sour wells was recognized2. Small scale standard NACE tests (i.e. proof ring, C-ring, double cantilever beam, and slow strain rate tests) have been performed to evaluate the behaviour of CT materials ...
Abstract. This work's scope was to do EIA of oil projects in Tabasco, northern Chiapas and the south of Veracruz, Mexico, by means of the identification, boundary definition and classification of wetlands. Different protection and conservation measures were established in order to mitigate and ...
*SPE Member Abstract Effluent guidelines for discharges of muds and cuttings offshore are under development. The impact of the proposed guidelines is predicted by a model developed as part of the API comments on the 1988 EPA proposal. A preliminary run of this model shows that 25 percent of the drilling ...
Abstract This paper details the results of a three-year project to test horizontal waterflooding as a means of improving oil recovery from the Bartlesville sandstone in an abandoned 100-year-old oil field in Osage County, Oklahoma. Supported by a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE), this work ...
Abstract A dynamic soft-string finite-element torque and drag model for modeling coiled tubing, wireline and drilling operations in a wellbore has been developed. The model includes the ability to simulate axial and torsional stick-slip for complex dynamic situations such as stall torque, jarring and ...
Abstract Casing-while-drilling is a relatively new well construction process or technology for simultaneously drilling and casing a wellbore, and has been utilized globally over the last 15 years or so. This technology has shown advantages of reducing overall drilling time and cost. It has demonstrated ...
Abstract There are four major stakeholders in the oil and gas production process. These are the oil companies, the shareholders, the society and the host communities. The cost of protecting and reclaiming the environment has different impacts on the financial conditions of each of these stakeholders. ...
Abstract SPE 53821 described a process for NORM/NOW (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials/Non-Hazardous Oilfield Waste) remediation that has benefits to industrial, regulatory and general public concerns. For the process to be successful the method must be adequately monitored. Both surface and ...