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    The Younis field in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt produces from the shallow Lower Rudies Formation, which contains unconsolidated sand. Historically, wells in the field were completed using cased and perforated completions but experienced increased sand production over time. A subject well was kept on a cased and perforated completion to allow bottom-up development but also showed sand production. A geomechanical evaluation determined certain perforation orientations would be more stable than others due to maximum horizontal stress directions. Perforating the well at an optimum 170 degree azimuth orientation increased oil production by 200 BOPD without inducing sand production, allowing recovery of most remaining reserves at a lower cost than intervention. Oriented perforation can be an econom

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    The Younis field in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt produces from the shallow Lower Rudies Formation, which contains unconsolidated sand. Historically, wells in the field were completed using cased and perforated completions but experienced increased sand production over time. A subject well was kept on a cased and perforated completion to allow bottom-up development but also showed sand production. A geomechanical evaluation determined certain perforation orientations would be more stable than others due to maximum horizontal stress directions. Perforating the well at an optimum 170 degree azimuth orientation increased oil production by 200 BOPD without inducing sand production, allowing recovery of most remaining reserves at a lower cost than intervention. Oriented perforation can be an econom

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    Oriented Perforation

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    mahmoud koriesh
    The Younis field in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt produces from the shallow Lower Rudies Formation, which contains unconsolidated sand. Historically, wells in the field were completed using cased and perforated completions but experienced increased sand production over time. A subject well was kept on a cased and perforated completion to allow bottom-up development but also showed sand production. A geomechanical evaluation determined certain perforation orientations would be more stable than others due to maximum horizontal stress directions. Perforating the well at an optimum 170 degree azimuth orientation increased oil production by 200 BOPD without inducing sand production, allowing recovery of most remaining reserves at a lower cost than intervention. Oriented perforation can be an econom

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    The Younis field is located south of Ras Shukier in the Gulf of Suez offshore the northeastern

    part of Egypt. the field produces from Lower Rudies Formation which is shallowest in this
    area +/- 4000 Ft TVD, Lower Rudies formation is described as weak or unconsolidated sand.
    historically the field was produced with cased & perforated completion up to early 1990s
    where frequency of sand filling is increased and several clean outs using coil and work overs
    were performed in order to restore well productivity. The completion strategy then changed
    to cased hole gravel pack.

    The subject well was kept Cased & Perforated completion in order to be able to develop
    the well with bottom up strategy with some flexibility to add perforations above watered
    out zones and below the developed gas cap. The well showed sand fill and several coiled
    tubing clean outs were performed. A recent cased-hole saturation log was performed and
    showed gas cap partially collapsed and still oil potential to be produced , Sanding study
    was performed using available sonic data and correlation with offsets showed the
    proposed interval to be the weakest sand body and would produce sand at any kind of
    draw down using conventional through tubing perforation.
    The remaining reserves for the well did not justify a work over and gravel pack so a
    geomechanical evaluation of different perforation options was performed and showed that
    certain orientations of perforations is more stable than others. shots that are oriented toward
    the direction of maximum horizontal stress showed higher stability. since the minimum
    horizontal stress component acts as main force on the perforation tunnel which gives more
    roam for perforation stability

    the perforation was performed at optimum orientation of 170 deg Azimuth , and showed 200
    BOPD incremental oil production , the provisional evaluation shows that onset of sand failure
    will take place at the abandonment pressure for the field , which makes most of well reserves
    recoverable without a costy rig operation.

    Oriented Perforation can be economical method for producing wells with sanding risk at
    lower cost. this option can get wider acceptance using active through tubing perforation
    orientation tools that can be used to shoot the perforation charges in the most stable
    direction that maximizes the capacity of the well to be drawdown without sand production or
    risking the well to be filled with sand

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