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ISSUE 6 2020 • WWW.OILREVIEWAFRICA.COM
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ON-THE-FLY DRILLING ADJUSTMENTS? High-tech oil and gas wells require the use of advanced drilling technologies. Constant monitoring of drilling operations in difficult wells and prompt decision-making based on the updates coming from fields is need of the hour. N THE OIL and gas industry, drilling and completion technologies are aimed at increasing flow rates, boosting efficiency, cutting field infrastructure CAPEX and mitigating the environmental impact. Over the past years, oil and gas majors have been advancing drilling technologies for oil and gas wells, allowing oil and gas operators to successfully optimise their rate of penetration to reduce well construction costs. Recently, Schlumberger has launched the MagniSphere highdefinition NMR logging-whiledrilling service to deliver accurate, real-time producibility analysis for optimum well placement. According to a press statement by the company, MagniSphere service has undergone extensive field testing, including in the Black Sea region where it enabled an operator, who was drilling an extended horizontal section to better characterise the reservoir porosity and permeability profile, improving well placement into a higher quality pay zone. “MagniSphere service provides operators with a full understanding of reservoir producibility while concurrently enabling enhanced drilling performance,” said Jesus Lamas, president of well construction at Schlumberger. “The service provides operators with automated, high-definition NMR
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Schlumberger’s MagniSphere high-definition NMR logging-while-drilling service delivers real-time producibility analysis for optimum well placement.
data while drilling, which is used to maximise reservoir exposure and ultimately optimise production.” Weatherford International’s Velox wellhead system and Vero automated connection integrity system are set to help operators
Achieving drilling performance requires efficiently converting energy into rock cutting,” said David Loveless, vicepresident of Drill Bits and Services, Halliburton.”
to lock in pressure integrity while enhancing safety and improving efficiency. Dean Bell, president, drilling, evaluation and intervention, Weatherford, said, “The Velox wellhead system enables operators to lock in pressure fast. Operators can run the upper and lower packoff assembly from the rig floor to isolate the annuli of multiple intermediate and production strings.” “Vero is the most disruptive technology ever introduced in the tubular running space and operators around the world are taking notice and benefiting from the exceptional value,” noted Bell and added that “the solution can minimise the chance of catastrophic well failures, associated with poorly made up connections, significantly reduce the total cost of well ownership, minimise safety risks and protect
corporate reputation.” Additionally, Weatherford International’s RipTide drilling reamer and JetStream circulation sub are used to enhance drilling performance while mitigating costs per trip; the logging-whiledrilling (LWD) systems deliver high-quality reservoircharacterisation data that enhance reservoir understanding and enable on-the-fly drilling adjustments. The Cerebro Force in-bit sensors from Halliburton is built to capture weight, torque and bending measurements directly from the bit to improve understanding of downhole environments, optimise bit design and increase drilling efficiency. Meanwhile, Neptune Energy has announced that it will adopt Halliburton’s DecisionSpace 365 well construction suite of cloud applications to consolidate all global drilling and well activities, improve efficiency and significantly reduce nonproductive time. The three-year agreement – part of Neptune’s digital subsurface programme – will create a platform for Neptune’s digital well programme. It aims to reduce the duration for planning wells from weeks to days, automate engineering calculations and consolidate data currently held across multiple global locations into one.
