What is intelligent completions?

Simple intelligent well completion helps to enhance the performance of the wells and finds its application in horizontal and multilateral wells. It provides downhole monitoring system to facilitate reservoir monitoring. Based on component, the intelligent completion market has been segmented into hardware and software.

What advantages can intelligent completions offer?

The intelligent wells offer many advantages over conventional completions. These primarily range from accelerated production, increased recovery, reduced or eliminated intervention, and improved reservoir performance.

What are intelligent wells?

An intelligent well has the following characteristics: It is capable of collecting, transmitting, and analyzing wellbore production and reservoir and completion integrity data. It allows remote action to control reservoir, well, and production processes.

What is the completion of a well?

A completion is an operation on an oil and gas well to open up the reservoir to production. An initial completion occurs after the drilling rig is moved off location. The wellbore is isolated by casing and cement and/or a packing device preventing any oil or gas from entering the wellbore and flowing to surface.

What is completions in oil and gas?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Well completion is the process of making a well ready for production (or injection) after drilling operations.

What is multilateral drilling?

Multilateral wells are new evolution of horizontal wells in which several wellbore branches radiate from the main borehole.

Why Intelligent wells are advantageous in oil rim reservoirs?

Abstract. Intelligent well application has proven useful in maximising oil production from oil rim reservoirs. The intelligent well yielded more cumulative oil and gas than the conventional horizontal well. It also delayed water breakthrough and reduced cumulative water production.

What factors should be considered when designing a completion?

Other factors that must be considered as part of the completion design:

• Packers.
• Elastomers.
• Flow control equipment.
• Equipment metallurgy.
• Equipment standards and grades such as ISO and API.
• Understanding the impact of force and length changes to the tubing string.

Why well completion is important?

The wellbore provides the only path from the surface to the reservoir. To a large extent, the successful production and depletion of a reservoir depends upon the successful completion and workover operations applied to a well.

hOW LOng DOEs well completion taKE?

hOW LOng DOEs it taKE tO cOMPLEtE a WELL? On average, it takes two days to frac each well and EnCana typically drills 2-4 wells per pad. A 15-man crew generally works from dawn to dusk, 5 to 6 days per week.

What are well completion activities?

The specific activities involved in well completion include; drill stem tests (DST), production casting, production tubing installation, production flow commencement and installation of beam pumping units. Drill stem tests have to be conducted to determine production formation potential.

What is are the advantages of multilateral drilling?

Advantages of multilateral completion systems General benefit provided by multilateral well design is barrel cost reduction. Multilaterals help to both reduce CAPEX and OPEX of the project and increase production. Increased exposure to natural fracture systems in the formation. Better sweep efficiencies.

How does intelligent completion work in a well?

Intelligent completions incorporate permanent downhole sensors and surface-controlled downhole flow control valves, enabling you to monitor, evaluate, and actively manage production (or injection) in real time without any well interventions. Data is transmitted to surface for local or remote monitoring in your digital well platform.

How does Schlumberger’s intelligent completion system work?

Monitor with distributed temperature sensing (DTS) and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems. Manage production or injection flow in multizone intelligent completions with surface-controlled valves.

What can I do to improve my well completion?

Manage production or injection with reliable packers designed for your reservoir and completion. Retrieve the upper completion without disturbing the lower intelligent completion. Choose software, connectors, cables, and surface data acquisition and control units designed for your well conditions.

How does a multizone intelligent completion system work?

Monitor with distributed temperature sensing (DTS) and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems. Manage production or injection flow in multizone intelligent completions with surface-controlled valves. Manage production or injection with reliable packers designed for your reservoir and completion.