8 Well Completion
we’ll see how to connect the reservoir to the well, and how to transport
the fluid up to the well head.
Well Lesson Plan 355
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• Objective Of well Completion
• How To Connect The reservoir To the well?
• How to lift the reservoir Fluids to the surface?
• How To optimize Well performance?
Introduction 356
• Following the drilling process, a critical
decision must be made – whether to
complete a well.
• This is the decision that says,
• yes, we’re pretty sure we’ve got a
productive well here, and will move
ahead in purchasing casing, tubing,
surface equipment, and possibly
constructing a pipeline.
• No, plug and abandon (P&A) the well,
declaring it a dry hole.
• One of the most technically important
decisions ever made in the life of an oil or
gas well.
Well Completion Goal 357
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• Provide an optimum path for
hydrocarbon production to
reach the surface in a safe and
environmentally sound manner.
Well Introduction 358
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How can we put this
well in production?
Well 359
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• The Well Completion Acts on……
The Tubing Configuration
The Configuration of the
reservoir well interface
Well Reservoir Well Interference 360
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• To main Types…..
• Open Hole
• Cased Hole Completion
• Slotted Liner
• Cased Hole Cemented & Perforated Liner
The Configuration of the
reservoir well interface
Well Reservoir Well Interference 361
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• Open Hole completion
• Well consolidated reservoirs
• Well produces from one
reservoir layer only
• Gas wells
Well Reservoir Well Interference 362
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• Cased Hole completion
• Well consolidated reservoirs
• Well produces from one
reservoir layer only
• Gas wells
Well Reservoir Well Interference 363
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• Cased Hole completion
• Perforation using casing gun
Well Reservoir Well Interference 364
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Well Reservoir Well Interference 365
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• Cased Hole Cemented & Perforated Liner
Well Perforation Methods 366
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Well Perforating guns Types 367
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Well 368
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Wellbore Production Method
• Vertical • Natural flowing
• Deviated • Artificially lift
• Horizontal • Reciprocating pump
• Multi lateral • PCP
• ESP
Wellbore / Reservoir interface • Gas lift
• Open / cased hole • Plunger lift
• Surfactant
Number of Producing Zones
• Single zone
• Multiple zone
Well Tubing Configuration 369
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SC-SSSV
Casing
Tubing
Packer
Perforations
Well Tubing Configuration 370
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SC-SSSV
Tubing
Dual Packer Blast joint
Perforations (2)
Single string Packer
Landing nipple
Perforations (1)
Well Tubing Configuration 371
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¼” Hydraulic control line
SC-SSSV
Tubing
Blast joint Upper Packer
Perforations (2)
Sliding Sleeve
Lower Packer
Landing nipple
Perforations (1)
Well Safty Barriers 372
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Completion Example 1 373
Basic Functional Requirements
To provide optimum flowing conditions
To protect the casing from well fluids
To contain reservoir pressure in an
emergency
To enable down hole chemical injection
To enable the well to be put in a safe
condition prior to removing the
production conduit (i.e. to be killed)
To enable routine downhole operations.
Completion Example 1 374
Other Functional Requirements
Suspension the tubing
Compensation for expansion or
contraction of the tubing
Internal erosion of the tubing
Protection of the reservoir during well
kill operations
Pumping operations for well kill
Well intervention operations out of the
lower end of the tubing
Pressure integrity testing
Reservoir monitoring
Installation points for well barriers.
Completion Example 2 375
Additional Functional Requirements
Retrievability of all components
from the well
Reservoir monitoring
Gas Injection to assist production.
Well Well Head 376
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Completion
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