... Company was assigned as the operator of Block 53. Despite heavy field-development investment, a cumulative oil production of 8 million bbl was generated until 2018. Alternate completion techniques were considered to increase oil production by drilling horizontal wells. Water breakthrough was the challenge...

.... The design of the UDWIs was changed to long horizontal wells located at the gas/oil contact in the XXI-S, XXII-1, and XXIV-2 reservoirs only. The 2011 FDP assumed that early water breakthrough could be managed by smart-well technology in the oil producers. However, these producers experienced technical...

...Michael Konopczynski; Mojtaba Moradi; Thanushya Krishnan; Harwinder Sandhu; Chin-Lin Lai _ Advanced well completions have proven to be an effective method of moderating gas breakthrough while producing a thin oil rim when placed in a heterogenous, carbonate reservoir. In addition, several studies...

... selected for this feature were chosen to highlight some of these areas of advancement, with particular emphasis on breakthrough technologies where step changes have been delivered or are seen as imminent. For instance, much has been written about the profound impact of managed-pressure-drilling (MPD...

... called viscous fingering. In order to understand the phenomenon, we put together a very diverse team, comprising a mathematician, an astrophysicist, a physicochemist, and a geologist. The team was unable to initially work well together and collaborate. The breakthrough came when a high-level scientist...

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.... This procedure is de- no breakthrough into the underlying 1,500 psi. The axial plays were normal. tailed in the complete paper. water was achieved. No wear of the mill in diameter was de- tected, and less than 5% wear in struc- Acid jetting of the first drilled chan- Conclusion ture was detected. nel...

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... become an opportunity to standardize unmanned offshore design. Radical thinking such as demanning and reuse of offshore oil and gas facilities might become a breakthrough to keep CAPEX and operational expenditures (OPEX) low. I have been fortunate to have some discussions with Robert Perrons, a professor...

... are a proven option to maximize reservoir contact in certain situations. A challenge is often early water breakthrough in less than 6 months from starting production, and then progressively producing very-high water cuts, often 95%, for long periods of times thereafter. Inflow control device (ICD) technology...

... is calling the discovery a “breakthrough” for subsurface engineering. The person to see the first clues of this was Wolfgang Deeg, who at the time was a completions advisor with Devon and is now an independent consultant. Deeg’s role in the project was to analyze the fiber data, but he also decided to take...

... not look to outer space to imagine the extent of breakthroughs to come in the not-too-distant future. Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. SPE/IADC 194535 Nitrogen-Cap Drilling: A Managed-Pressure-Drilling Alternative for Highly Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs by Alexey Podust...

... and Jibarito fields in Block 192, with completions featuring autonomous inflow-control devices (AICDs) to delay water breakthrough while improving production performance and increasing oil recovery. Another alternative suggested to increase recovery factor and prevent water breakthrough is dual completion...

... reservoirs to avoid the predicted oil/water contact to deter possible early water breakthrough. The dynamic behavior of Field N is characterized by strong aquifer and is dominated by bottomwater drive. The study focused on the westernmost accumulation of Field N, called Field NG. From the time Field NG first...

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