Archive | Completing the Well
North Sea horizontal wells employs open-hole, multi-stage fracturing system
Posted on 18 January 2012 in Completing the Well, News, The Offshore Frontier
Wintershall recently drilled and completed a multi-fractured horizontal well in the North Sea using an open-hole…
Expandables to the rescue in shale refracs, trouble zones, long-reach wells
Posted on 13 January 2012 in 2012, Completing the Well, CurrentFeatures, Features, January/February
While they are hardly new on the oil and gas completion front, expandable technologies are coming of age when highly deviated, mature and depleted wells are the norm…
Xtreme Drilling introduces 23,500-ft capable land coiled-tubing well intervention unit
Posted on 09 January 2012 in Completing the Well, News, Onshore Advances, The Efficient Rig
Xtreme Drilling and Coil Services has unveiled the XSR200, a land coiled-tubing well intervention unit…
STMZ frac-pack completion system proves value in ultra-deepwater GOM
Posted on 13 December 2011 in Completing the Well, Innovating While Drilling, News, The Offshore Frontier
A three-zone single-trip multi-zone frac-pack completion system was deployed successfully in the Lower Tertiary…
Swellable packers qualified for Valhall
Posted on 08 November 2011 in 2011, Completing the Well, November/December
To redevelop the Valhall Field in the North Sea to enable continued production until 2050, BP Norge is increasing the reservoir pressure by waterflooding…
Hydraulic-set packers may boost production
Posted on 08 November 2011 in 2011, Completing the Well, November/December
A number justifications can be made for decisions on tool selection for open-hole multistage fracturing. More specifically, what type of packer provides reliable isolation…
Re-inventing subsea intervention to keep economics above water
Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, Completing the Well, Features, September/October
Ten thousand feet below the platform, a well production tree, with all its pipes, manifolds and production lines, is signaling yet another new frontier in hydrocarbon …
Merged multilaterals system cuts time, risk
Posted on 14 July 2011 in 2011, Completing the Well, July/August
Inherent risks in component alignment and open-hole exposure time during conventional multilateral casing junction operations spurred the need for an innovative…
Multilateral completions on rise but still a niche
Posted on 06 July 2011 in 2011, Completing the Well, Features, July/August
Have multilateral completions finally come of age? Proven to maximize reservoir production, horizontal multilateral completions have witnessed growth in numbers and in complexity. However, while these completions have become more prevalent over the past decade, hurdles remain to widespread…
HPHT completions: always a moving target
Posted on 04 May 2011 in 2011, Completing the Well, May/June
When it comes to pushing the envelope, the oil and gas industry has set a high bar for developing technologies that can transform seemingly unfathomable hurdles…
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