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Multilateral Wells: Benefits and Challenges

Multilateral wells are wells with two or more laterals (horizontal, vertical, or deviated) drilled from a main wellbore to access multiple hydrocarbon bearing formations. They are classified based on their complexity using the Technology Advancement Multi Laterals (TAML) ranking system from levels 1 to 6. While multilateral wells provide advantages like higher productivity, improved sweep efficiency, and increased reserves per well, they also involve higher costs, more complex drilling and completion, and can be more sensitive to formation properties.

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Multilateral Wells: Benefits and Challenges

Multilateral wells are wells with two or more laterals (horizontal, vertical, or deviated) drilled from a main wellbore to access multiple hydrocarbon bearing formations. They are classified based on their complexity using the Technology Advancement Multi Laterals (TAML) ranking system from levels 1 to 6. While multilateral wells provide advantages like higher productivity, improved sweep efficiency, and increased reserves per well, they also involve higher costs, more complex drilling and completion, and can be more sensitive to formation properties.

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Multilateral wells completion

By: Shahd Waleed


Balsam Qusay
Kawther Mohamed
Aya Adel
History of Multilateral
Multilateral wells
• A multilateral well is a well with two or more
laterals (horizontal, vertical, or deviated)
drilled from a main mother well.
Multilateral configuration :
TAML
• Multilateral well is ranked by its complexity and the ranking
system is called “Technology Advancement Multi Laterals” or
“TAML”
TAML level 1 TAML level 2
TAML level 3 TAML level 4
TAML level 5 TAML level 6
Multilateral Wells Comparison
Advantages Limitations
• Higher productivity index • Higher initial cost
• Draining thin layers • Increase sensitivity to
• Decrease water and gas heterogeneities and anisotropy
coning • Complicated drilling, completion,
• Better sweep efficiency and production technologies.
• Increase reserve per well. • Complicated and expensive
stimulation.
• Slower and less effective cleanup.
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