ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Abstract Conoco's journey towards sustainability began in earnest about 2 years ago as an ""incremental"" effort to bring increased awareness of environmental and community responsibility to existing operations. Since then however, the company has evolved to a much richer understanding of sustainable ...
Abstract The concept of Integrated Operations (IO) has matured significantly over the past eight years since the landmark study by CERA in 2002. Many companies, including Chevron, now have established programs with demonstrated results delivered in multiple assets. With that track record, companies ...
SPE Members Abstract The Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company(GUPCO) has recently used ""slim-hole"" drilling technology to enhance the economics of developing a marginal field by significantly reducing drilling and development costs. Drilling costs have been reduced by approximately 20%. Risks have also ...
Abstract Areas of petroleum exploration in the upper Amazon basin of Ecuador have a high diversity of fauna, which is attracted to and depends on dispersed microhabitats such as clay licks (geophagy), nesting areas, animal dens, watering and bathing holes, fruiting trees and leave-cutter ant and termite ...
Abstract The South Rub Al-Khali Company Limited (SRAK) is a Joint Venture between Shell and Saudi Aramco and is engaged in exploring in the Rub Al-Khali Basin of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The licence area contains significant quantities of ultra-sour gas in the Jurassic Arab Formation reservoir. ...
Abstract Recently an experimental completion, called ""Dual Monobore?? was implemented in VICO Indonesia. The paper will describe an implementation of this completion as a new solution adopted in VICO to optimize both gas production and reserves recovery from multi layer gas reservoirs. Using monobore ...
Abstract Oil and gas industry projects have the potential to impact individuals, communities and the environment where they occur. Early identification, planning and engagement are essential to implement appropriate risk management-related avoidance and/or mitigation measures as well as identify and ...
Abstract A major oil company drilled an offshore well in Libya where extreme-lean-profile (X-LP) casing was programmed. The XLP well, a further development of the lean-profile, requires casing strings to be run in openhole sections with very little clearance between the borehole wall and the casing ...
Abstract Unconventional reservoirs associated with the presence of fractures have been identified in the Jurassic horizons in the Raudhatain field in North Kuwait. These reservoirs contain high-quality light oil and gas under HPHT conditions with associated H2S and CO2. The operator in this field is ...
Abstract Matrix stimulation of high-temperature sandstones using hydrochloric acid (HCl) is difficult to achieve due to its fast reaction, possible sand deconsolidation, clays destabilization, and tubular corrosion. These problems are common in stimulating wells completed across the Pinda formation ...
Abstract An operator was planning to drill the first horizontal well in the Inhassoro field in Mozambique. The type of completion would be an open hole utilizing expandable screen technology. The formation had highly reactive shale stringers necessitating the use of an inhibitive fluid, but due to the ...
Abstract Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO) introduced in 1984 the technique of perforating underbalance with a tubing conveyed gun. The early results of the first runs were very encouraging. Since then, tubing conveyed perforation has become standard practice for nearly all new completions, workovers, ...
Abstract Less than 70mm drifting diameter casing damage wells couldn't be repaired by using normal methods. Its repairing is one of main tasks of oil and water wells workover and is a key to improve the workover rate. For this kind of wells, there is no effective repairing method in practice on ...
The problem of obtaining a Maximum Economic Rate of drilling is the main task of engineers, tool pushers, superintendents, field drilling foremen and people involved in drilling research problems. A rig drilling at its Maximum Economic Rate will always make hole at a rate less than the maximum rate ...
Abstract Economic feasibility studies have shown the need for a low cost, efficient treatment design to make stimulation of the Mancos B formation near Rangely, Colorado practical and attractive. Design simulation indicated that tight control of base gel viscosity combined with a high, but achievable, ...
Abstract Development of a new pressure measuring tool has yielded critical bottom hole pressure data in the fields on the North Slope of Alaska. The new tool permits gathering bottom hole pressure and temperature data that previously was uneconomical to obtain. This paper outlines the development of ...
Abstract Exploration well testing in an environmentally sensitive offshore area presents technical and economic challenges to the oil and gas industry. This paper presents the approach recently taken in the La Vela Costa Afuera concession, an offshore block in an environmentally sensitive area, located ...
Abstract Triton Energy Ltd. (Triton) (acquired by Amerada Hess Corporation in August 2001) and Energy Africa (15% WI), set a benchmark for the oil industry by discovering and developing a deepwater Equatorial Guinea, West Africa field and establishing production to a FPSO in less than 14 months. The ...
Abstract QT-16Cr chrome coiled tubing was introduced in 2003, but its use has been limited to velocity strings in corrosive environments. Questions concerning its feasibility as a workstring prompted field testing of a reel of QT-16Cr on the North Slope, Alaska. Following preliminary laboratory testing, ...
Abstract Drill string failures caused by friction heating of bottom hole assembly (BHA) components and drillpipe have increased dramatically over the last several years. Although drilling engineers are familiar with heat checking caused by downhole heating due to borehole friction, catastrophic overheating ...