Well and Reservoir Management Project at Salym Petroleum Development

Mabian, Andrew; Volokitin, Yakov; Beliakova, N.; Genkin, Jean-Mark; Hagelaars, Ad; Pickles, Mike; Diamond, Joe

doi:10.2118/128834-ms

All Days 2010

DOI: 10.2118/128834-ms

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Well and Reservoir Management Project at Salym Petroleum Development

Andrew Mabian¹,

Yakov Volokitin²,

N. Beliakova³

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Abstract: Salym Petroleum Development (SPD) has embarked on an ambitious Oil Field Management Improvement Program with as key objectives to:• Optimise Production (2.5% additional production through reduction of Locked-in-Potential and better reservoir pressure maintenance; unscheduled deferment less than 1% through reduction of ESP trips).• Increase Ultimate Recovery (Increase RF by 1%; platform for future EOR project; robust basis for infill drilling).• Reduce OPEX (increase ESP mean time between failure; contain chemi… Show more

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Remote Monitoring and Production Optimisation in Shell

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With the advancement of technology, fields are increasingly monitored in real time, remotely from the office. This applies to wells and facilities alike. Shell has applied a range of capabilities across the assets worldwide. The capabilities include: –Real time monitoring and optimisation of wells–Virtual metering–ESP surveillance - real time monitoring and remote control–Advanced Rotating Equipment monitoring–Integrated Production System Modelling–Collaborative Work Environments for integrated decision making The paper describes how these techniques are used in Shell's operations. They enable asset staff to deal with a wider range of issues faster and more efficiently while bringing global expertise as required in near real time. This involves integration across a range of disciplines, for fast and effective decision making.

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Managing Fields Using Intelligent Surveillance, Production Optimisation and Collaboration

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In Shell, asset professionals use advanced technologies and processes for field management and optimising production performance. Real time monitoring of wells and compressors has become the norm, delivering higher uptime and increased production. Asset teams use visual information on hundreds of wells and their facilities using a web-based portal. The wells and facilities with events or deviations, i.e. exceptions, are highlighted, enabling the staff to focus on fixing the critical wells and facilities. The information is brought together in Collaborative Work Environments with video connection to streamline the communication between field and office and speed up decision making. Shell has implemented these capabilities in a number of assets around the world, for example in Oman, Russia, Brunei, UK and Gulf of Mexico. The people side is a large part of the attention, during the implementation and for sustainability of the solutions. Awareness sessions, training, local ownership, feedback sessions, coaching and regular reviews are part of the embedding activities. The paper describes the capabilities and the benefits, and illustrates this with a field case from Salym in Russia. This includes the approach to change management and learning from both the project and the embedding phase. The benefits include HSE improvements (less travel exposure), increased production and reduced operating cost.

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Dynamic Underbalance Perforating maximizes Well's Productivity by Minimizing Completion Damage on a Western Siberia Oil Field

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In Russia many operators are challenged with the goal to increase production on oil and gas fields by drilling new wells or by using enhanced completion designs in the old ones. The latter is significantly less expensive, hence is preferable. The transition from completion to production on new and workover wells requires optimal clean up and the removal of the perforation damage to achieve maximum productivity.Perforating in the low formation pressure West Salym field has historically been performed overbalanced using wireline or with static underbalance using tubing conveyed perforating (TCP) with immediate well kill to remove guns. These perforating techniques, do not provide sufficient cleanup of the perforation tunnels and leave out significant perforation skin. A novel tubing conveyed perforating (TCP) technique using the dynamic underbalance effect combined with an afterperforation inflow testing was applied in the West Salym field. The goal was to achieve maximum productivity and to record the pressure transient. Deep penetrating charges were also used to bypass near wellbore damage and maximize potential results.A customized TCP test string was designed for 7 in. (178mm) casing that had two sets of gauges installed at different depths, and a production valve for the in-flow surge. The test string allowed to conduct a perforation inflow test to estimate post perforation skin, productive zone permeability and reservoir pressure.The operations were performed on 10 wells (5 workover wells and 5 new wells). Inflow pressure data on 5 wells, which allowed us to make conclusive estimates of skin, showed negative values. Improved productivity exceeded expected values by 10% on average.Dynamic underbalanced perforating has enabled us to obtain clean perforation tunnels and resulted in an average 50% production increase in comparison to the average field production.

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Remote Monitoring and Production Optimisation in Shell

Remote Monitoring and Production Optimisation in Shell

Managing Fields Using Intelligent Surveillance, Production Optimisation and Collaboration

Dynamic Underbalance Perforating maximizes Well's Productivity by Minimizing Completion Damage on a Western Siberia Oil Field

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