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COILED TUBING COMPLETION CASE HISTORIES

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10.1 Velocity String Installation ............................ 2 10.3 SPOOLABLE Completion ............................ 3

10.2 External Upset Completion .......................... 2

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10.1 Velocity String Case History 10.2 Gas Lift (External Upset) Case History

• Marginal gas well (West Texas) • Initial completion (North Slope, Alaska)

100Mscf/D using surface emitter set for 2 hr • 3-1/2-in. CT (9800 ft)

production per day
• Six external MMG mandrels installed
• Analyses indicated the flow area should be reduced
• Surface controlled safety valve installed at 1500 ft
1-1/4-in. CT velocity string selected
• Bottom packer set by electric line
• Previous field operations resulted in excessive reservoir
damage from kill fluids • CT assembly included 14 ft seal stinger

Live well operations preferred Gas Lift (External Upset) Components and Equipment

• Packer setting depth confirmed by correlation and elec-

Velocity String – Components and Equipment tric line setting procedure

• Typically the simplest form of coiled completion • High level of depth (length) control required to ensure all
components are assembled at the correct depth
• Pump-off plug permits live well operations

• Existing completion remains in place

• Existing SSSV and master valves disabled by velocity

string

Velocity string – Installation Summary

• Liquid and sludge removed from wellbore during instal-

lation

• 21,500 ft velocity string installed (1-1/4-in.)

• Production testing

• Well placed on production

– stabilized at 390 Mscf/D
– unloads liquids unaided

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10.3 Gas lift (Spoolable) Case History • Packer and stinger simplifies depth control

• Remedial completion (Gulf of Mexico) • Existing tree reinstalled above CT and control line
hangers
• Well suffered unstable flow due to oversize production
tubing (3-1/2-in.) Gas lift (Spoolable) – Installation Summary

• Liquid loading would occur only after a few days produc-
tion
• 7710 ft of 2-3/8-in. CT with five SPOOLABLE gas lift
valves and a SPOOLABLE safety valve was selected
Gas lift (Spoolable) Components and Equipment
• Gas lift mandrels fitted to initiate production since no CT
workstring access for kick-off
• Packer set in existing production tubing by electric line
• A CT hanger and control line hanger was installed above
the existing production tubing hanger.
• CT run and stung into packer
• Gas lift valves used to initiate production only
• Stabilized flow at 1150 BOPD and 2.5MMcf/D

Fig. 1. Preparing the reel.

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Fig. 2. Weld preparation – site.

Fig. 3 Weld preparation – tubing preparation.

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Fig. 4. Coiled tubing stabbing tool.

Fig. 5. Preparing the BHA.

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Fig. 6. Running the completion.

Fig. 7. Testing a gas lift valve.

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Fig. 8. SPOOLABLE™ safety valve on the spool prior to running in hole.

Fig. 9 Adjusting the coiled tubing hanger slips.

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Fig. 10. Cutting the coiled tubing.

Fig. 11. Injector head removed.

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Fig. 12. Coiled tubing and control line cut above the coiled tubing hanger.

Fig. 13. Control line hanger.

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Fig. 14. Control line hanger.

Fig. 15. Control line hanger housing.

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