Well Completion

WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES

• Standardizing Well Pad Designs Leads To Significant Savings

  Peyto Exploration and Development in Alberta, Canada has experienced significant savings and natural gas production efficiencies by standardizing well pad designs. The company now has 20 identical well pads located in its Sundance fields about 175 miles west of Edmonton. Each well pad contains two to four wellheads. Horizontal drilling permits consolidating the four wellheads into a single pad.

• Filtration Of Completion And Workover Fluids Customer Application Brief Weighted brines are commonly used to prepare oil and gas producing wells for completion and the initiation of production.
• Report Of Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation's Utilization Of Effective Techniques For Protecting Fresh Water Zones/Horizons During Natural Gas Drilling - Completion And Plugging Activities A study was conducted of several natural gas wells in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania that were installed and operated by Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (Cabot).
• Summary Of Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recover (CO₂EOR) Injection Well Technology The purpose of this report is to identify the technologies and operating practices that have been developed by the oil and gas industry for injecting carbon dioxide (CO₂) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
• Multilateral Well: Quantitative Inflow Interpretation Of RESMAN Intelligent Tracers In A Multilateral Well This application illustrates the power of RESMAN Intelligent Tracers to provide significant insight into the inflow distribution along each lateral of a multilateral well.
• Fearless Flow Back: Treating Completion Fluids And Acid Flow Backs An oil company completed a well and CETCO Oilfield Services was there to treat the flow back fluids. During the flow back, it was necessary for the oil company to continue normal drilling operations. Deck space on the structure was at a premium for the oil company, who simultaneously continued drilling while flow back fluids were being treated.
• Artificial Lift Monitoring System Improved Performance Of Dynamic North Dakota Well Over a ten-year period, a major operator tried various methods to optimize production on a particularly gassy, dynamic well in North Dakota. The customer then asked Baker Hughes to install an ESP system with WellLink SPVision artificial lift monitoring solution to provide advanced surveillance for the well.
• Completion System Designed To Monitor Frac Operation A well located in the Bakken shale had a vertical cased section of 10,000 ft (3048 m) and a 10,000 ft openhole horizontal section. The completion consisted of 10 stages; five of the stages were monitored using PT gauges. The operator wanted to monitor separate frac events in multiple zones and to continue monitoring the zones during production.
• Optimizing Well Locations In The Niobrana The Niobrara shale play with its rugged terrain, environmental sensitivities, structurally complex geology and fractured shale reservoir exemplifies the unique operational and imaging challenges often found in unconventional reservoirs.
• Precision Leak Detection In Complex Completion Delivers Substantial Operator Savings A failed pressure test following the installation of a new completion in a North Sea oil producer led to the discovery of a 2 l/min. leak.
• Casing Extension And Wellhead Replacement Project For Re-Abandonment Of Oil Well Following is a set of photos and descriptions pertaining to onsite work completed by Hot-Hed S.A. in Neuquén Argentina for REPSOL.
• Filtration Of Completion And Workover Fluids Weighted brines are commonly used to prepare oil and gas producing wells for completion and the initiation of production. These brines are often referred to as completion fluids. The proper type and concentration of brine is required in order to prevent blowouts and ensure well safety by balancing the formation pressure.