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WELL
CONTROL AND INTERVENTION
Simultaneous
operations in the Rocky Mountains. New methods of conducting
simultaneous drilling, completion and production operations are
making it possible to beat deadlines in a multiple-horizon gas
field in central Wyoming. Operating within feet of drilling rigs,
snubbing units, equipped with dual BOPs and dual annulars, allowed
significant time savings during wireline, fracturing and completion
operations. Self-moving drilling rigs quickly moved between wells,
followed by space-saver snubbing units used for perforating,
fracturing and setting plugs above each of up to 22 zones. Careful
maintenance of pressure between the annulars during annular-to-annular
stripping made it possible to quickly drill out the plugs and
safely snub in the production string against up to 4,000 psi.
When
Snorre blew out, what was the right thing to do? Do you mine
the wisdom? Do you flee at the first chance? Do you follow
safety procedures to the letter? Which path is more likely
to result in the least injury? This article presents a different
take on how to determine the correct course of action. Despite
safety regulations, main power was restored and several attempts
were made to mix and pump drilling mud for bullheading into
the well before it was successfully killed. This article argues
that the loss of control was due to vulnerabilities induced
by the entrainment of safety critical work in a culture of
business performance optimization, and that the successful
recovery reveals that recovery was only possible by violation
of safety regulations and depended critically on the imaginative
capabilities of the platform crew in trying to understand what
was happening and in deciding on courses of action.
Controlling
an underground blowout. Author Neal Adams continues his successful series in part four
of learning how to identify and control and underground blowout. |
SUBSEA
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
New
technology, years in the making is finally being installed
on the seafloor. This report gives the type, operating
theory and status of several seafloor production systems,
including multiphase pumping, subsea separation, all-electric
actuator systems and more.
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DEEPWATER
TECHNOLOGY
Mexilhão
field drilling was affected by high downhole vibration from
hard sandstone formations, causing repeated failures in directional
drilling and MWD/LWD tools. The deepwater field in the Santos
Basin offshore Sao Paulo, Brazil, was becoming expensive in
non-productive time. Authors from Petrobras and Halliburton’s
Sperry Drilling Services explain how in the 45° well was
drilled to save over a month of NPT expense.
How
does a company decide to insulate, install heaters, hot-oil
treat, or use chemical injection to produce through a shorter
subsea tieback? Authors from Walter Oil and Gas and Champion
Technologies describe how Ulysses Field in the GOM is producing
from an uninsulated tieback and how the most cost-effective
approach was chosen. |
DRILLING
Drilling
and cleaning difficult horizontal holes effectively. Authors
from Talisman Energy, Certified Oilfield Rentals and VAM Drilling
explain how drilling performance on Bunga- Kekwa field development
in Malaysia was optimized using downhole hydraulics and drillstring
behavior with a new hole-cleaning system to improve cuttings
transportation and frictional loads management.
Depth
control issues. You might think that, over the years, depth control has
become a well-honed science. Well, in some ways, you’re
right. However, in other ways, it’s changed very little
over the past 20 years. So, there’s
still a lot of work to be done, and special interest groups have
been formed to advance the art of depth control. This article discusses
the issues for depth control in LWD/MWD, as well as in wireline,
both in openhole and cased hole/perforating. |
GEOPHYSICS
AVO has
arguably been the one of the most useful techniques ever developed
for looking at seismic data. There have been several ways to
employ it. This article overviews the methods of Goodway, Shuey
and Russel, among others, and discusses the utility of each
method in the appropriate situation. |
OPEC
SUMMIT REPORT
An exclusive
report from Riyadh describing the results of the upcoming OPEC
Summit. Can the data get any better? Does extra capacity really
exist? These and other questions will be put to the OPEC ministers. |
RMOTC
This
highly useful feature is published in association with the
Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center. January’s article
shows how a new application of production technology helped
improve revenues for an operator. |
TUBING
TABLES
World
Oil’s industry-standard reference guide for tubing up
to 5-in OD and production-tubing couplings. The reference gives
connection dimensions, steel grades, coupling type, sealing
mechanism and minimum joint-tension strength. Illustrations
and connection manufacturer contact information is provided. |
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The January 2008 issue closes for advertising
on December 1, 2007. |
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