ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Abstract This paper describes lessons learned and results obtained while applying a rotary drilling with liner system on conventional rigs, during the planning, design and drilling operation in offshore wells located in the Mexican coasts of the Gulf of Mexico. Due that the cretacic formation named ...
Abstract Many industries, including the Energy Industry, are leveraging virtual world based technologies to enhance training and situational understanding. The phrase ""a picture is worth 1000 words"" is implicitly understood because ""seeing?? helps crystallize concepts making more transparent the ...
Abstract In recent years a number of oilfields have been developed in tropical waters of the Rowley Shelf, north-west Australia. Along with Bass Strait and the Timor Sea, this region is the focus for Australia's Current oil exploration and production. It supports major coral and mangrove habitats ...
Abstract The paper deals with the early preparatory work, which started one year before spud. This work comprised agreement on environmental risk acceptance criteria, mapping of the natural resources in the area that could be affected, environmental risk analysis having already reduced the probability ...
Abstract BP has combined existing technology with appropriate SIMOPS (Simultaneous Operations) planning to safely achieve significant cost reductions in deepwater field development by running several subsea wellhead components offline of drilling activities. This was achieved by utilizing conventional ...
Abstract Reeled tubing equipment and services are commonly used for the live well injection of acid and other types of well stimulation fluids. Until the introduction of inflatable packer systems, there was no acceptable method packer systems, there was no acceptable method of isolating the Injection ...
Abstract A field wide review of rig workovers was carried out for the Prudhoe Bay reservoir to enable a set of ‘best practices' to be drawn up and implemented. Particular emphasis was placed on well killing, together with the minimization of formation damage and loss in productivity index associated ...
Introduction Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) was formed in 1990 by a consortium of oil companies to develop their interests in the Hibernia and Avalon reservoirs offshore Newfoundland in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. The reservoirs are located 315km ESE of St. ...
Abstract The rigorous environmental regulations of the North Sea oil and gas fields have required fundamental changes in the way service companies acidize wells. Traditionally, acid corrosion inhibitors have been some of the most toxic chemicals routinely pumped downhole. This paper describes a new ...
Abstract Drilling ultra-deep (UD) wells places significant requirements on the drill string. Lengthy drill strings lead to high tensile loads which can lead to slip crushing of the drill string, hoisting capacity issues and drill pipe collapse capacity concerns at the blowout preventer (BOP). BOP shear ...
Abstract In Atlantic Canada, the target limit for discharge of synthetic based muds (SBM's) on cuttings is 6.9% synthetic on cuttings (%SOC). Controlling SOC is achieved by a combination of methods ranging from re-injection, on-platform treatment systems, or ship-to-shore systems. This study examined ...
Chambers, M.J. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. SPE Member Abstract A successful technique for placing accurate amounts of sand inside casing was developed for the Western Operating Area (WOA) of the Prudhoe Bay Unit (PBU) on the North Slope of Alaska. Using coiled tubing and a multistage pumping schedule, ...
Abstract The Ecuadorian portion of the Amazon Basin, known locally as the Oriente, is the major oil producing region in Ecuador. The tropical rain forests of the Oriente contain some of the Earth's most biologically diverse and ecologically sensitive areas. In addition, the rain forest is home ...
Abstract Ternary diagrams have been used mainly in chemistry applications, and in geology for characterizing mineral components of rocks. In this study the ternary diagram called the Cusiana Well Performance Triangle is being proposed as a powerful well - reservoir surveillance evaluation tool. The ...
Abstract The Blake field, in the Outer Moray Firth, UKCS, is a shallow thin oil reservoir in the Captain sandstone formation. The initial subsea development consists of 6 production and 2 seawater injection wells tied back to the Bleoholm FPSO, 12 km away. The production wells are horizontal openhole ...
Abstract Giant reservoirs of the Middle East are crucial for the supply of oil and gas to the world market. Proper simulation of these giant reservoirs with long history and large amount of static and dynamic data requires efficient parallel simulation technologies, powerful visualization and data ...
Abstract This paper describes a novel improved hydrocarbon recovery (IHR) screening methodology capable of (1) screening and prioritizing a large number of reservoirs for various IHR processes and (2) generating preliminary flowstreams through generic sector modeling and proxy simulation. This methodology ...
Abstract In Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, non-rig tubing repairs have become a viable alternative to rig workovers (RWO's) to provide an economic remediation for wells with production tubing by ""A?? annulus communication. Electricline (EL)-set patches can eliminate tubing communication at a significant ...
Abstract An underground blowout is defined as an uncontrolled flow of formation fluids from a high to a low pressured zone. Due to the 9 5/8"" casing collapse of the well no. Y of X. Field with great tectonics, in the upper part of Aghajari Formation, Lahbari at 687 m depth, the formation oil and gas ...
Abstract North Oman comprises four mature assets, producing 90% of its oil from old wells. In the drive to enhance oil production of the existing well stock, while arresting the natural decline of oil rate through better Well and Reservoir Management (WRM), well intervention work has increased in importance ...