Interactive Drilling for Fast Track Oilfield Development

Jacqueline Lecourtier

118 pages, parution le 01/01/2001

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Résumé

This conference addressed a theme that is of great strategic importance, and represents a major industrial challenge to the entire petroleum industry. Organized by the IFP in association with its Beicip-Franlab subsidiary, this event involved specialists from Agip, BP Amoco, Elf, Geoservices, Statoil, and TotalFina.

To accelerate the development of oil fields, it is vital to minimise the time between the discovery of a field and when it goes into production. This means that new strategies for the development of oil fields must be implemented, including the establishment of far closer ties with the reserve assessment stage. This approach, known as "fast track development", opens up new prospects for drilling and hence, new technological challenges.

The aim of interactive drilling is to remove geological uncertainties while drilling progresses, so as to better direct the well itself to the production zones. This involves completely re-thinking the interactive procedures that link drilling measurements to the geological models or reservoirs that were the starting point for scheduling the well drilling. Moreover, new measurement techniques must be developed to improve the understanding of geological formations.

The results of this work will considerably influence the technical programme that is adopted for drilling wells in the future. This development will be appreciated to its full extent with the exploration of deep and very deep offshore fields, where rates of return are always linked to maximised recovery and production.

Contents

Smart drilling: both technological and cultural revolutions for the oil industry.
Well data acquisition strategies.
Geosteering opportunities.
Achieving and maintaining improved drilling performance in the tectonically stressed Andean
foothills of Colombia.
Wellbore stability: one of the most important engineering challenges when drilling smart wells.
Interactive drilling: the fastest way from reservoir to production.
Synthesis of the round table discussions.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Technip
Auteur(s)	Jacqueline Lecourtier
Parution	01/01/2001
Nb. de pages	118
Format	17 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	242g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9782710808046