Introduction to

Workover
Concluding Session

Peter Malpas
Nov 2023
 Reasons for a Workover
• Mechanical • Reservoir
• Replace completion equipment • Change producing horizon
• Gravel Pack
• Failure/corrosion • Convert to an injector
• Plugged • Water
• Integrity issue • CO2
• Fishing • Mitigate sand production
• Equipment lost in hole • Stimulate
• Replace/install artificial lift • Acidising
• Frac
• Gas Lift • Abandonment
• ESP • Cement Plugs/Squeeze
• ESPCP
• PCP
• Bean Pump
Workover Operations
Workover Steps
1. Inspect wellhead and tree/hot bolt 7. Working inside casing
2. Kill well • Recover/mill packer
3. ND Xmas Tree/NU BOPs • Set cement plugs
4. Install HWOU • Perform intervention
5. Working inside tubing 8. Run in new completion
• 1.9” Macaroni 9. Rig down HWOU
6. Pull Tubing/Packer 10. ND BOP/NU Tree & Flowline
11. Hand well over to production
Site/Unit Dependent
Well/Workscope Dependent
Wireline Intervention
Check Tools
Workscope
Ran RB2 instead of FB2
• Number of runs Same diameter but no
• PCE No-Go Shoulder
• Hydraulic BOPs/Stuffing box
• Does BOP have shear seal capability
• Contingencies
• Broken wire
• Stuck – how will we cut wire
• Fishing
• Ground Rules
• Ask for an in-situ sub – will save time and effort
• Slickline Team to measure & record lengths & diameters of all tools to be run in well
• Record pressures before and after each event e.g. RIH, Open SSD
• Jarring philosophy – +/-1 hour then POOH & cut off 50-100ft for new rope socket
 Inspect Site/Wellhead/WIP
• Wellhead/Xmas Tree
• Inspect platform & well
• Ideally with production
• Will HWOU sit on well or skid beams
• Access
• Will any lifting operations interfere with other wells
• Chance of dropped objects etc
• Check equipment condition
• Note orientation
• Tree to be reinstated in same position
• Pressure in annulus
• B & C as well as A
• Hot bolt connections/Check LDS can be removed
• To ensure they can be easily removed later
• Disconnect gas lift lines
• Remove energy source
Well Kill
Remove hydrocarbons from tubing/Make well safe
• Can well flow
• Completion fluid to be used:
• Density – is BHP well known/has injection started up etc
• Honour min 100psi overbalance
• Filtered – no solids
• Compatibility
• With clays – 6% KCl?
• With formation water – no precipitation
• Temperature correction applied
• Expected Losses
• Ask PI
• Overbalance * PI will give an indication of losses
• If losses too high – what is the plan?
• Polymer/LCM/Cement
• Top filling to prevent hydrocarbon migration (Echometer)
 Well Kill Methods
Bullhead
Push hydrocarbons back into reservoir
Lubricate and bleed off residual gas
Need sufficient flow rate to prevent gas migration
Circulate
Normal if hydrocarbons in annulus
Reverse – if flowline is still connected can send all
effluent to process
Combination
Bullhead then circulate
Monitor Well
SITHP/SICP evolution
Can also bullhead down
Losses rate to keep hole full
annulus and tubing
Basics 11”

• HWOU
• FIT for purpose – jacking capability
• Speed
• Tubulars
• Capable of handling loads
• Contingent loads
• Hanger/Completions
• Will pass through BOPs
• Will pass through jacks

13 5/8”
Contingencies
• Fishing
• What ifs
• Overshot
• Innershot
• Taper Tap
• Milling
• Rotary shoe or mill
• Cutting edges
• Backup
• Welding capability
• Cement Plug Back
• Mixing & pumping capability
• Contingency cement
• Bottom Hole Temperature
• Pressure Test Required
• Plug Length
Protect the Well/Production
 Questions

06/11/2023