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Summary Successful down hole video logs begin with proper planning and consideration of potential sources of dirty, opaque fluids and the associated execution of well preparation/clean up methods. Sources of dirty wellbore fluids are identified and techniques for controlling each source are offered ...
Abstract A new application of running wireline stroker technology in combination with wireline milling technology has been proven successful in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. In August 2008, on an offshore platform, a wireline stroker and wireline milling rotational unit were used to mill out ...
SPE Members Abstract The Balmoral Field is situated 140 miles northeast of Aberdeen in 470' of water. Early well tests indicated the possibility of sand production. To eliminate potential problems production. To eliminate potential problems with the subsea hardware, it was decided to control sand ...
Abstract Caltex Pacific Indonesia (CPI) recognizes the enormous potential that a large scale tertiary enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project like Light Oil Steam Flood or Surfactant Flood can have on extending the operations in Minas oil field well into the 21st century. With 4.5 billion barrels of remaining ...
Abstract The Mad Dog field is located in Southern Green Canyon approximately 150-miles south of New Orleans, in 4400-ft to 6800-ft of water (Figure 1). Mad Dog wells are sub-salt and are drilled to the Lower Miocene at approximately 19000-ft true vertical depth (tvd). The discovery well for the field ...
Abstract Field trials of new methodologies, products or technologies are considered to be an effective way to gauge the true value of such innovations. However it is difficult and expensive to conduct a rigorous field trial, especially in tight, multi-layered reservoirs, and proper design and analyses ...
Abstract In 2005 a sour underbalanced horizontal gas well was designed and drilled in a pristine, environmentally sensitive region of southern Alberta, Canada. There were two primary drivers for the client. One was to remain under reservoir pressure throughout drilling and completion operations and ...
Abstract The effects of hydrocarbon drilling on megafaunal communities were investigated at ten sites between 370 - 1750 m water depth in the northern North Atlantic, specifically the Faroe-Shetland Channel and the Norwegian Sea. Physical disturbance from discharge of cuttings and water-based mud from ...
Abstract Coiled Tubing operations in the North Sea are regularlychallenged by crane lift capacity limitations when attemptingto bring coiled tubing reels onboard. Very often the cranecapacity or weather conditions determine the CT size to beused for the application, leading to operations conducted ...
Abstract A new concept, which combines existing fieldproven technology with newinnovative features, has been evaluated as an attractive technique forcollection and retrieval of top-hole drill cuttings, excavated during offshoredrilling.Simplified, the presented technique is based on using a collarthat ...
Abstract Critical coiled tubing treatments, such as fill cleanouts of sub-hydrostatic wells and perforations of small reservoir intervals have historically posed a high uncertainty for Norwegian operators due to nature of the complex completions i.e. long and large monobore completions. The complexity ...
This paper was prepared for the 48th Annual Fall Meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, to be held in Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 1973. Permission to copy is restricted to an abstract of not more than 300 words. Illustrations may not be copied. The abstract should contain conspicuous ...
Abstract The heavy oil pools of Alberta and Saskatchewan can be grouped into four reservoir types: Lloydminster, Wainwright, Basal Quartz and Bakken. This study reviews briefly the recovery attainable in these reservoir by secondary and non-fireflood processes, and then evaluates in situ combustion ...
Abstract An effective system of managing daily drilling information generated from the rigsite is a recognized method of optimizing those same operations. Such a system would quickly and thoroughly analyze data and present results in a fashion that would promote efficient monitoring of the operation ...
Abstract An integrated study was carried out on the region of Bolivia called the Boomerang Hills. The purpose was to determine the oil and gas reserves and to design an integrated system which could produce the oil and gas. One goal of the design was to provide gas produce the oil and gas. One goal ...
Abstract The determination of the true residual gas saturation in gas reservoirs is addressed in this paper. It is customarily assumed that when a gas reservoir is overlaying an aquifer, water will imbibe into the gas-saturated zone with the onset of gas production. The process of gas displacement ...
Abstract In application of Alkali-surfactant-polymer flooding, people always follow after ultra low IFT and negate the effect of ASP solution viscoelasticity on displacement efficiency. For getting the ultra low IFT, ASP solutions need the high concentration of alkali, for example, the ASP flooding ...
Abstract The value of residual gas saturation to water influx is a key factor for estimating recoverable reserves in gas reservoirs overlaying active aquifers or natural gas storage reservoirs. Most of our previous work investigated the determination of residual gas saturation for sandstone reservoirs ...
Abstract Industry standards (API and MSS) for subsea blowout preventers (BOPs) requires ram BOPs to close within 45 seconds and annular BOPs within 60 seconds; however, it is an industry goal to close these critical functions as fast as is practical (1). Most existing subsea BOP control systems are ...
Abstract Increasingly, operators seek to underream. Whether driven by cementing tolerances, ECD improvements, pore pressure fracture gradients, production increases, swelling shales/salts or setting sand screens, underreaming is sought after at all stages of field development. To date, the industry ...