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Well Completion
Well Completion
Let oil into the well, where it can then flow or be pumped to the surface.
Keep over- or underlying water / Gas out of the well.
Keep the formation out of the well.
Casing 30"
Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 13 3/8” Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 13 3/8” Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 9 5/8”
Casing 13 3/8” Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 9 5/8”
Casing 13 3/8” Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 9 5/8”
Casing 13 3/8” Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 9 5/8”
Casing 13 3/8” Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 9 5/8”
Casing 13 3/8” Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 9 5/8”
Casing 13 3/8” Casing 30"
Casing 20"
Casing 9 5/8”
Well completion methods:
Application: Open hole completion relies on the strength of the rock itself
to support the wall of the hole, it has greater application in carbonate
or basement formations
Cased hole completion or perforated completion:
• Conventional completion
• producing interval is covered
by the production casing,
cemented and then
perforated for taking
production.
• Perforations are made at the
level of the production zone
to establish connection
between the reservoir and
the well
• Casing is set into or through
the producing formation and
cemented.
• Perforations must pass
through casing and cement
sheathing before penetrating
the formation
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Advantages:
• The tubing controls the internal corrosion of the casing because produced
fluid flows through it and do not contact the casing
• Ease of selective completion and workover operation in the producing
intervals
• Can effectively control gas and water production by selectively perforating
and isolating
•Can effectively control and monitor zonal fluid produciton
•Permits multiple completions
•Can stimulate selecively
• Can deepen but with smaller hole
• can be adopted to sand control both as pre-pack gravel or conventional
gravel pack
Disadvantage:
Advantages:
Little flow restriction
Ease to deepening
Easy to well clean out
Selective stimulation is
possible.
Disadvantages:
Difficult to gravel
pack
Corrosion of casing
Limited casing
strength
Production System
GAS
HORIZONTAL
Choke FLOW STOCK
TANK
LIQUID
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SEPARATOR
R INCLINED
TFLOW FLOW
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Flow through Porous Medium
Inflow Performance
Liner Completion:
• This is the simplest concept in which only a single layer is completed for production
Single completion:
• A single tubing string is lowered in to the well to take production from either a
single layer or many layers.
• In case production is taken from multiple layers through a single string then
the completion string makes use of packers and sliding sleeves to control flow
from individual layer. It is important that the reservoir pressures of all the
layers flowing into a single string be similar for this type of completion to be
successful.
Sliding sleeve: Sliding sleeves are the principle circulating devices that provide
the ability to circulate a well and also selectively produce multiple reservoirs.
A sliding sleeve is a cylindrical device with an inner sleeve and outer body
bored to provide matching openings. The inner sleeve is moved using a wire line
shifting tool. When the sleeve is moved and matched with openings in the outer
body, it creates a circulation path between tubing and annulus.
Dual completion:
Advantages
Disadvantages: