Horizontal Well Technology, Productivity and Evaluation
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Horizontal Well Technology, Productivity and Evaluation Course
Introduction:
The course is designed as a companion course to Horizontal and Multilateral Wells: Drilling and Completions. Advanced well concepts including horizontal and multilateral wells have become a dominant feature of new field development and redevelopment opportunities. They can, when used appropriately, dramatically improve the economic profitability of field development operations. However, their successful deployment largely depends on the effectiveness of the initial screening of candidate fields/wells and an assessment of the longer-term production dynamics essential to ensuring “life of well” design criteria and effective reservoir management. The complex, interdisciplinary decisions in advanced well projects are emphasized. This course stresses the effective identification of objectives and planning goals in the design evaluation process, the technical and economic assessment of risks and uncertainties, and the provision of flexible solutions.
Course Objectives:
You Will Learn How To :
- Identify the applications of horizontal, multilateral, and intelligent wells from geological and reservoir aspects
- Determine optimum well locations and their placement in reservoir structures
- Assess multidisciplinary inputs for successful screening of advanced well projects
- Select the most appropriate well geometries to enhance production rates and hydrocarbon recovery from a variety of reservoir types and lithologies
- Predict horizontal and multilateral well productivity with integrated reservoir flow and well flow models
- Evaluate formation damage and well completion effects on advanced well performances
- Diagnosis problems in advanced wells and conduct the necessary sensitivity analyses
- Assess reservoir management requirements and how to achieve these through developing well design criteria to achieve “life of a well” success
- Minimize technical and economic risk in advanced well projects
Who Should Attend?
- Petroleum geologists,
- Petro physicists,
- Petroleum engineers
- Geophysicists.
Course Outlines:
- Technical and economic benefits of advanced well systems
- Limitations and risk
- Reservoir applications for various well types
- The screening of applications for advanced well applications
- Geological structure characteristics
- Classification of advanced wells
- Reservoir flow and geometrical issues
- Impact and importance of reservoir description
- Reservoir inflow performance at different boundary conditions
- Wellbore flow and integrated well performance
- Commingled production and cross flow in multilateral wells
- Formation damage in horizontal and multilateral wells
- Well completion and combined effect of completion and damage on well performance
- Reservoir simulation considerations
- Applications of intelligent completion in advanced wells
- Risk identification and assessment
- Minimizing risk through initial well specifications
- Case studies
- Trajectory guidelines for well placement in various reservoir environments
- Introduction
- Asset Team Paradigm Shifts in Complex Well Design, Application, and NPV Generation
- Asset Team Structure, Function, and Control
- Reservoir Screening and Simulator Applications
- Geo-Steering, Well Profile Design, and Guidance Capabilities
- Options, Capabilities, and Limitations of Drilling Systems, ERD and RST
- Torque and Drag, Formation Stability, and Re-Entry Design
- New Methodologies in Complex Well Completion Design, Stimulation, and Intervention
- Formation Damage - Definition, Avoidance, and Mitigation
- Multi-Branch Technology Design and Application, Challenges, and Solutions
- MPD, Coil Over Top Drive and Novel Well Construction and Intervention Advancements
- Practical Field Execution, Management Check-Lists, and Operational Best Practices
