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Production Engineering
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PE News Inside this issue:

Our First Virtual Signing Ceremony Initiates Ambitious Digital Engagement:

PE News 1
Despite the COVID-19 lockdown keeping us all apart, OMV Upstream and
Schlumberger executives have come together to sign a memorandum of
understanding (MoU), while keeping in line with the social distancing guidelines. Journal Watch 2
The agreement is to sign a five years collaboration framework to deploy DELFI
technologies in OMV by the end of the year. Hands-on Tips 3

Remote learning options now

Trygve Randen, president SIS, and Johann Pleininger, chief upstream operations officer
available. Learn and acquire
for OMV, use teleconferencing to sign an MoU
skills beyond the traditional
The agreement paves the way for new approaches to E&P business and operations, classroom!
including mobile and remote working, with vastly improved efficiency. The advanced
digital technologies of the DELFI environment, as part of OMV’s transformative
DigitUp program, will enable more agile and adaptive business models and 2020 Course Schedule
technology.

OMV petrotechnical professionals will be able to use the DELFI environment when
working from home, in the field, or when the COVID-19 situation allows, back in the
office. They will have remote access to the DrillPlan coherent well construction
planning solution – helping OMV towards achieving its goal to reduce well planning
time for production wells by 90% by the end of 2022 – the Petrotechnical Suite in
DELFI, the ExplorePlan accelerated exploration planning solution, and the FDPlan
agile field development solution.
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Journal Watch
Long Cyclic Well Slugging Behavior Induced by Sand
Production: Analysis and Mitigation Solution Enabled
by Transient Multiphase Flow Simulation
SPE-195740-MS by Kapil Kumar Thakur, Schlumberger, Kia
Katoozi, TAQA Bratani, U.K., et. al.
The well discussed in this paper has a
history of sand production and as
exhibit long cyclic slugging behavior
with a frequency of several days and
reduced average production. The lower
completion has a 2000-ft gap between
the mule shoe and the packer that is
exposed to the larger diameter of 7-in
liner. It is not fully understood whether
the slugging is caused by the gap at the
lower completion or by sand
transportation or both Q: What is a plot that
published in 1995 as a
Sand production is a common flow assurance issue and sometimes can result in technique to diagnose water
unstable flow behavior causing reduced production. This work is the first attempt to production behavior using a
implement particle transport modelling in transient multiphase flow simulation to comparison plot of the WOR
successfully address a slugging issue in a real well. and WOR’ (derivative)?
A: Chan Plot

Measured downhole pressure and tubing Measured oil, water and downhole pressure
head pressure for 1 month between day 23 and 30

Transient simulations successfully produced the slugging behavior observed in the

field. Cyclic slugging was seen to be caused by the flow dynamics generated by
particles of small to medium size. Some of the key findings were complete blockage
by porous sand stationary bed at the lower completion gap (with subsequent
pressure buildup), transition from stationary bed to moving bed, rate-dependent
velocity of a slow-moving particle bed (eventually producing to surface), and fresh
sand particle production from the reservoir at increased drawdown. Measured data
from the sand detector confirmed the production of sand, particularly around the
same period as predicted by simulation.

Predicted bottomhole pressure and liquid rate

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Potential slug mitigation solutions were established that should help to achieve
higher and stable production. One solution was to achieve higher flow velocity and
therefore enable sand transportation as a continuous moving bed (i.e., no blockage),
such as reducing the gap size at the lower completion section together with either
tubing size reduction or electric submersible pump (ESP) installation. The other
solution was to implement an appropriate sand control/sand consolidation method.

Expected liquid rate by implementing tubing size reduction and gap size modification

Expected liquid rate assuming successful implementation of sand control method

Hands-on Tips
Particle Transport Modeling in OLGA
With OLGA Multiphase Flow Simulator, the sand deposition along the pipeline can
be modeled for behavior prediction and mitigation planning.

Step 1: Activate PARTICLEFLOW option

Choose Advance Model

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Step 2: Define Sand Properties & Sand Mass Fraction

Define DENSITY,
DIAMETER and CAPACITY
(Heat Capacity) of sand

Define PARTICLEFRACTION

Step 3: Analyze the results

Go to TRENDDATA/
PROFILEDATA (branch/
case level) then select the
required variable to
analyze the system

For example, you can plot a profile plot with VOLFRACBED with GEOMETRY variables
to monitor the volume fraction of the sand deposition (sand bed fraction) along the
system and plot a trend plot with QLST variable to see the slugging trend over time

Access Trend Plot to see

results at specific location
over time

Access Profile Plot to see

results for the entire pipe

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