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fostering and funding innovation
Intelligent use of Intelligent Completions22nd August 2017
Ian PhillipsChief Executive
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• Why Intelligent Completions• The technology• Making a decision
Agenda
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• Conventional approach• Perforate everything• Maybe perforate in
sequence
It’s complicated
Reservoir 1Reservoir 2Reservoir 3
Reservoir 4
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Reservoir Oil in place Pressure Permeability Proximity of water
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Reservoirs are not uniform
Reservoir understanding at the start of the field life
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Reservoir 1Reservoir 2Reservoir 3
Reservoir 4
• Drill your well• Run your production tubing• Perforate all four reservoirs
to maximise early production
• And hence revenue
• Ad hoc data collection• Deal with problems later
• Try and shut off water production
• Re-perforate if scale forms
Conventional approach to well management
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Reservoir Oil in place Pressure Permeability Proximity of water
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There is uncertainty – and reservoirs are not uniform
Reservoir understanding 5 years later
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• Perforate all four reservoirs• Run an intelligent
completion• Real time monitoring• Manage the problems
proactively• Prevent or defer water
production• Re-perforate if scale forms
A more intelligent approach to well management
Reservoir 1
Reservoir 2
Reservoir 3
Reservoir 4
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Reality is more complicated
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Typical intelligent completion in a horizontal well
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Typical intelligent completion components
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Advantages• Better information about
reservoir performance• Greater recovery = greater
profitability• Adjust well to maximise
recovery
• Fewer production problems• Less water (can impede flow
and can kill well)• Less scale (can block flow)
Disadvantages• Higher initial cost
• Often applied to more complex wells
• More moving parts • reliability to be considered –
now largely addressed
• More sophisticated reservoir management
• Real time decision making
Making the decision to run an intelligent completion
fostering and funding innovation
Intelligent use of Intelligent Completions22nd August 2017
Ian PhillipsChief Executive