HIGHLIGHT OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF WELL THAT WE HAVE

IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY

There are various kinds of well in the petroleum industry which are:

 CONVENTIONAL WELL: in the early days of the oil industry,

drilling wells was a simple operation. A well location was picked at top

reservoir, and the well was drilled directly down to the target as a vertical

well. Then drilling became more sophisticated when the art of deviating

wells was perfected. Here, the drill bit is deflected at an angle from the

vertical toward a specific target.

Vertical and moderately deviated wells are called conventional wells.

Hey are the most common well configuration because they are relatively

cheap to drill.

 SIDETRACK WELLS: this is where a well has already been drilled or

partly drilled and there is a need to exit out of one side of the well to a

different target. A sidetrack well may be sidetracked if there is no further use

for that well, e.g., the oil well has watered out. A window will be cut in the

casing of the original well by a special milling assembly and drilling then

proceed out of the window toward a new target.

 HORIZONTAL WELL: this is well where the reservoir section is

drilled at a high angle, typically with a trajectory to keep the well within a

specific reservoir interval or hydrocarbon zone. In a strict sense, these wells

are rarely perfectly horizontal, but they tend to be near horizontal mostly,

generally at an angle greater than 80 degree from vertical.

 DESIGNER WELLS: are types of high angle or horizontal wells that

have more than one intended target. This makes them more cost effective

because the individual targets would have otherwise required several

conventional wells to drain effectively.

 MULTILATERAL WELLS: are wells that have more than one branch

radiating from the main borehole. Each branch can drain a separate part of

the reservoir and produce into a common single wellbore. The advantage of

multilateral wells is that, for the same number of drainage points, they can

be somewhat cheaper than if separate wells had been drilled.

MENTION OTHER TERMINALS WE HAVE AND THE TYPE OF
OPERATOR, CAPACITY OF TERMINAL, PRODUCT WHICH THEY
HANDLES, AND PLATFORM WHICH THEY OPERATE FROM
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