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Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com Completions: the interface between the reservoir and surface production.
The role of the completion designer: to take a well
that has been drilled and convert it into a safe and efcient production or injection conduit.
Completion design: a mix of physics, chemistry,
math., eng., geo., hydraulics, material science and practical hands-on wellsite experience. => to balance the theoretical with the practical. Quang Khnh HoChiMinh City University of Technology 12/2013 Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com 2 In the development of a hydrocarbon reservoir, a large number of wells are drilled and require to be completed, to allow the structure to be depleted. However, the drilling and completion operations are crucial to the long term viability of the wells in meeting the specified objectives.
The design and completion of both production and
injection wells are required to satisfy a number of objectives including: Quang Khnh HoChiMinh City University of Technology 12/2013 Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com 3 1. Provision of opt. production/injection performance.
2. Ensure safety.
3. Maximise the integrity and reliability of the completion over the
envisaged life of the completed well
4. Minimise the total costs per unit volume of fluid produced or
injected, i.e. minimise the costs of initial completion, maintaining production and remedial measures.
Depending upon the reservoir characteristics or
development constraints, the completion may be required to fulfil other criteria, e.g. to control sand production. Quang Khnh HoChiMinh City University of Technology 12/2013 Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com 4 The design of a completion can therefore be assumed to proceed concurrently at two different levels. The initial intention would be to produce a conceptual design, or a series of alternatives. From these conceptual designs, one or more would be selected for more detailed development.
=> a detailed design process would be pursued with
the intention of producing a completion string design which specifies all components and also assesses the sensitivity of the well and completion performance to variations in the reservoir data used for the design. Quang Khnh HoChiMinh City University of Technology 12/2013 Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com 5 The fundamental design of a completion consists of four principal decision areas, namely:
1. Specification of the bottom hole completion technique.
2. Selection of the production conduit.
3. Assessment of completion string facilities.
4. Evaluation of well performance / productivity-
injectivity
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12/2013 Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com 7 Team integration
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Pulling together the data the will be incorporated into
design.
Incorporate reservoir and production data and an
expectation of what completion needs to achieve over the life of the field.
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Outlines the main decisions made in the completion
design & their justification.
Forms the basis designed of reviews by colleagues,
internal or external specialists & vendors.
Includes the basic installation steps & design risk
assessments.
Includes major decisions s.a the requirement for sand
control, stimulation, tubing size & artificial lift Quang Khnh HoChiMinh City University of Technology 12/2013 Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com 13 Completion procedures
Installation procedures are reviewed and agreed by all
parties involved.
Reviews and issuing procedures should precede
mobilization of equipment and personnel.
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Reports well status in detailed.
Reports results and lessons learnt.
Includes a detailed schematic (with serial numbers,
equip specifications, dimensions and depths), a tubing tally, pressure test details and plots, summaries of vendor reports, etc.
=>This document is critical for any engineer planning a
later well intervention. Quang Khnh HoChiMinh City University of Technology 12/2013 Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com 15 Wells can be producers or injectors. can produce oil, gas and water.
can inject hydrocarbon gas, water, steam and waste products
can be combined either simultaneously (e.g. produce the tubing
and inject down the annulus) or sequentially (produce hydrocarbons and then convert to water injection duty).
Completions are often divided into:
reservoir completion (connection between reservoir & well) and
upper completion (conduit from reservoir completion to surface
facilities). Quang Khnh HoChiMinh City University of Technology 12/2013 Email: dqkhanh@hcmut.edu.vn or doquangkhanh@yahoo.com 16 Major decisions in the reservoir completion are:
Well trajectory and inclination
Open hole vs. cased hole
Sand control requirement and type of sand control
Stimulation (proppant or acid)
Single or multi-zone (commingle or selective)
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Articial lift and type (gas lift, electrical pump, etc.)
Tubing size
Single or dual completion
Tubing isolation or not (packer or equivalent)
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