Abstract:This paper describes the rationale, the planning and the preliminary results of the first Coiled Tubing Drilling (CTD) experience for TotalFina. The objective was to enhance production from a high water-cut oil well producing under unstable conditions and located in an area of possible upsides. This well was drilled in 1990 on the edge of a fault-scarp degradation complex in the Brent East panel of the Alwyn Field. The geological uncertainties in this complex area needed to be reduced and it was necessary to r… Show more
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