... to the lower reservoir zone, which is the water-producing zone. This single ESP is then used as the only equipment to lift the produced water and then provide sufficient pressure for direct injection into a neighboring well, without the need for surface treating and handling facilities. Oil production...

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.... The objective when installing MSDT is to increase productivity by enhancing well connectivity to the reservoir. This paper will discuss the development of the technology and its qualification, as well as installation preparation and results. The MSDT was developed in a Joint Industry Project (2012-2015...

... required. Predicting the dynamic responses and loads is critically important to determine the operating situation, total system performance, and system output. Usually there is a perception of reducing the fluid level over the pump intake (intake pressure) will maximizing well production and system overall...

... Abstract A well, with very low bottomhole pressure, required frequent workover operations due to pump failures from sand production. A gravel pack was designed to minimize the production sand issues. However, to sustain low pore pressure (less than 0.1 psi/ft) without affecting well...

... acid treatment. In addition to that, employing a passive diverter instead of an active acid-based diverter was a seamless technique to divert the acid away from each zone after pumping. The results of this novel workflow and the new acid technique indicate a sixfold increase in well productivity...

... of 2,000 ft. The permeability of the original carbonate reservoir is set at 0.5 D. The reservoir hosts an oil saturation of 84% in the pore spaces. The initial reservoir pressure is 1,200 psi, and a drawdown of 100 psi is planned for the production phase. The problem statement is defined...

... Digital transformation is the cultural and strategical response to digital trends. It consists of the adoption of new processes and the adaption of the existing ones to the possibilities of new technologies, thereby providing companies with a radical productivity enhancement to compete...

...-hits), perforation cluster design, landing zone optimization and production analysis. By incorporating geology into the diagnostic results, additional insights are obtained for enhanced reservoir characterization and future field development. The case histories illustrate how the interpretation...

... the optimum soaking time between the cessation of pumping, and the flowback of hydraulic fracturing fluids after a hydraulic fracture stimulation job, to increase productivity of shale gas and oil wells. Multiple cracks were observed at the surfaces of cores from a shale oil reservoir under simulated water...

... Summary The need for the use of modern technologies for diagnosing the work of the developed facilities and clarifying information on the productivity of the target formation arises when making decisions on the control of development, including designing and planning various kinds...

... Initial production from these early wells was good but deteriorated dramatically after water breakthrough due to excessive sand production. The high rates of sand production led to numerous electrical submersible pump (ESP) failures and shut-in of most of these wells. Completion methodology, cost...

... on a paradigm that considers the overdisplacement of proppant past perforations to be a major risk to well productivity. The theory behind this paradigm is investigated and finds that it relies on several physically unrealistic assumptions. Numerical simulations were performed to understand the impact...

... rate on pressure drop and sand production. There is a critical rate in which the sand filled annular gap will fluidize and also sanding would be different for different fluid density. Both test results and CFD simulation scenarios comparatively allow to establish the relation between wellbore pressure...

... production practices have a major impact on proppant production, maintenance and disposal costs and the subsequent well performance. In this paper the results from over 200 FPDO and flowback operations from the United States and Argentina are reviewed. These results show that maintaining a balanced flowrate...

... management leads to higher cumulative production. While the underlying technologies have been around for up to 20 years, it is only recently that their synergies and true value are understood. This paper will demonstrate the effect each of these technologies has on increasing overall production rates...

... Abstract Descriptive Analytics is the first step of a three-step data-driven analytics workflow used for managing and optimizing completion, production and recovery of shale wells. The comprehensive data-driven analytics workflow for the unconventional resources is called Shale Analytics...

... Abstract Faster production declines than initially forecast were observed in numerous deep-water assets. These wells were completed as Cased Hole Frac-Pack (CHFP) completions ( Knobles et al. 2017 ) with the assumption that rock failure although not initially expected would occur at some point...

... Abstract Mitigating the negative impact of frac-hits on production from parent and child wells is challenging. In this work, we show the impact of parent well depletion and repressurization on the child well fracture propagation and parent well productivity in different US shale reservoirs...

.../gravel are useful in identifying the preferred gravel to manage solids production. This study will show that sand control performance of mono-sieved gravel is comparable to that of standard-sieve distribution gravel. This is illustrated by comparing the mass of produced sand and measurement...