Oilfield Activities

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 Oilfield Activities
Content:

•Seismic
•Drilling and well construction
•Well logging
•Well testing
•Well completion
•Artificial lift
•Production and productivity

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 Oilfield Activities
Learning objectives:

At the end of this lecture you should be able to:

•List and describe 7 Oilfield activities

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 Oilfield Activities

•The little man pictured here will help you understand

where the business begins and ends…
1 SEISMIC
 1 SEISMIC

•The generation of acoustic waves that travel into the

earth and reflect back to the surface to be recorded by
sensors and interpreted by computers.
•This provides a subterranean picture of a possible
resource.
Surface Seismic consists of making a “noise” and
listening for the returning reflected signals
A surface seismic with the interpreted model above
In addition to seismic there are:
• Geology
-The geologist goes to identify potential cap and reservoir
rocks

• Geochemistry
-The geochemistry tries to identify the source rock and
also the possible migration path to the reservoir rock
2 DRILLING & WELL CONSTRUCTION
 2 DRILLING & WELL CONSTRUCTION

The use of a rig and crew for the drilling, suspension,

completion, production testing, capping, deepening,
plugging back, sidetracking, re-drilling or reconditioning
of a well.
3 WELL LOGGING
 3 WELL LOGGING

•The measurement of one or more physical quantities in

or around a well.
•The term comes from the word “log” used in the sense
of a record or a note.
•Wireline logs are taken downhole, transmitted through a
wireline to surface and recorded there.
4 WELL TESTING
 4 WELL TESTING

•Well Testing involves providing access to and

measurement of dynamic reservoir data.
-including pressure, temperature, flow rate and fluid
properties.
-while the well is either flowing or shut in.
5 WELL COMPLETION
 5 WELL COMPLETION

•The work done on a well bore to establish safe

production of the resource or injection of fluids after the
production casing string has been set, cemented and
pressure tested.
 This work includes running the pipe and jewelry,
perforating, setting packers, tubing hangers and
Christmas trees in place.
6 ARTIFICIAL LIFT
 6 ARTIFICIAL LIFT

Systems that are placed in the well bore to “lift” fluids

because the reservoir lacks the energy to cause the
natural flow of fluid to surface, such as gas lift or
electrical submersible pumps.
7 PRODUCTION & PRODUCTIVITY
 7 PRODUCTION & PRODUCTIVITY

 Production is the stage in the reservoir life during which

hydrocarbons are brought from the reservoir through the
completion and surface facilities to be sold.
 Productivity is the measure of a well completion’s ability
to produce, expressed in volume of gross liquid produced
per day per unit of differential pressure between the
static reservoir pressure & the well’s flowing bottom hole
pressure (drawdown).
THE END