Expandable Tubular Completions for Carbonate Reservoirs

Marketz, Franz; Welling, Rudy W.F.; Noort, Roger Van; Baaijens, Thijs

doi:10.2118/88736-pa

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“…Conserving hole size, or diametric efficiency (DE), allows additional pipe strings to be deployed to drill deeper or farther. Marketz et al [33] described the application of SET in carbonate reservoirs. The technology, when used on trial basis in more than 20 wells in fractured carbonate reservoirs, demonstrated success with expandable tubular solutions to replace scab liners for fracture shutoff and to replace cement for zonal isolation.…”

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Indirect Extrusion: A Multifaceted Approach of Sub-surface Tubular Expansion

Pervez¹,

Qamar²,

Al-Abri³

et al. 2018

Extrusion of Metals, Polymers and Food Products

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Extrusion and indirect extrusion is a very old manufacturing process used in multitudes of applications mainly focused on transportation, household and power industries. Indirect extrusion has found an interesting application in petroleum industry, which resulted in resolving many unsolvable issues over the last few decades. The current and expected future global demand for hydrocarbons became a driving force for researchers to find new comprehensive and cheaper solutions for hydrocarbon production. The challenges faced in oil and gas fields, while drilling, constructing and operating new and old vertical/horizontal wells, are many. The use of indirect extrusion for insitu expansion of sub-surface tubulars used in wells revolutionized the drilling and completion as opposed to one and half decade back. The emergence of solid expandable tubular technology has changed the basics of how we design and construct wells. The original development of the technology was to overcome the challenges faced by the petroleum industry to reach ultra-deep reservoirs, off-shore drilling, drilling in highpressure/difficult zones and repair/maintenance of old/ageing wells. However, it gained significant interest of researchers and operators in providing solutions to wide-range problems. The development of a computational framework using finite element method (FEM) enabled to determine the force required for expansion and resulting dimensional changes in final product, which is of direct assistance to the field engineers. The effect of friction and stress variations along contact surface is also determined.

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confidence: 99%

Indirect Extrusion: A Multifaceted Approach of Sub-surface Tubular Expansion

Pervez¹,

Qamar²,

Al-Abri³

et al. 2018

Extrusion of Metals, Polymers and Food Products

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“…Up till now some 51 horizontal producers and 26 horizontal injectors have been drilled of which 17 are multi laterals. In the drilling phase the fractures, which are inferred by severe losses or identified by Formation Micro Imager logging (FMI), have been shut off initially by scab liners (4 ½ pipe with External Casing Packers) and later by expandable 5 ½" liners [4]. Despite these precautions some 27 barefoot horizontal wells produce with water cuts above 50 % or are closed due to very high water cuts.…”

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Inflow Profile Control in Horizontal Wells in a Fractured Carbonate Using Swellable Elastomers

Welling¹,

Marketz²,

Moosa³

et al. 2007

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TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractA fractured carbonate field is developed via Gas Oil Gravity Drainage in the upper layers and water flood in the deeper layers. Due to the injection of gas and water into this fractured reservoir, horizontal wells tend to gas or water out, impairing the matrix drainage process. Different well and reservoir management techniques are used to prevent this from happening or to control the inflow when it happens. One such technique is to segment the bare foot horizontal open hole section with swellable rubbers and create up to 6 discreet zones of inflow, separated by 3 1/2 " tubing. The inflow from each section is currently controlled by a coiled tubing operated sliding sleeve. In the future it is anticipated that control will be done using hydraulically operated sleeves.Up till November 2006 eight horizontal barefoot oil producers have been re-completed with swellable packers. This paper concentrates on water shut-off and addresses the design, installation risks and mitigation, the impact of zone shut-off on well production performance, and the actions taken to optimize the production of each well by logging the well and shifting the sleeves.

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