SPE WORKSHOP: Running Horizontal Wells with MSS Completion

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September 17-19, 2014 Alekseya Tolstogo str., 99, Samara, Russia «Holiday Inn Samara» Hotel. Registration Deadline – September 8, 2014.

SPE WORKSHOP

Running Horizontal Wells with MSS Completion

September 17-19, 2014

Alekseya Tolstogo str., 99, Samara, Russia

«Holiday Inn Samara» Hotel

www.hi-samara.ru 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Detailed information: SPE_ATW_2014_Frac_EN.pdf (50 Kb)

Chairman
А. Dedurin, Rosneft

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
А. Aleroev, LUKOIL-Engineering
P. Bravkov, Schlumberger
S. Vereschagin, Schlumberger
S. Dubovitsky, Rosneft
Z. Kaluder, Rosneft
V. Kononenko, Baker Hughes
Т. McNealy, Halliburton
I. Talipov, Salym Petroleum Development
А. Chikin, Rosneft

Workshop technical sessions:

  • Session 1 - Design and Modeling of Horizontal Wells with Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing
    Predicting realistic scenarios of reservoir development using horizontal wells with multistage hydraulic fracturing is fundamental to maximize return on project investments. Integration of information about the formation, including geological and geophysical, petrophysical, geomechanical and, increasingly frequent recently, microseismic data, makes it possible to model expected hydrocarbon production rates, analyze sensitivity of horizontal well production rates to changing parameters, such as horizontal borehole length, distance between HF ports, HF geometry secured by proppant, proppant weight per stage, number of stages and many other parameters. The output of modeling is the economical comparison of completion techniques or field development options, as well as development of more advanced completion techniques.
  • Session 2 – Completion
    Over the past three decades, well designs went through an evolution of single treatment vertical completion, multiple treatment vertical completion to a single treatment openhole horizontal to a cased and cemented multiple treatment horizontal completion using +15,000 m3 of water and 3 million kg of proppant for a single well. Most of this evolution has occurred in the past 10 years with the introduction of mechanical sliding sleeve completions and plug and perforation completion techniques and technologies. This evolution has just begun in Russia as operators begin to explore formations with lower permeabilities than their legacy formations. Horizontal completions are resource intensive and logistically challenging. In areas that do not have the infrastructure required to support the transporting of resources, operators experience elevated costs in logistics and time dependent services. This increase in cost, aside from the increase in resources, has hindered the economic incentive for most operators. In North America it took 5 -10 years to get where the industry is today. In the beginning of horizontal completions in North America, the average lateral length was 500m to 1,000m with four to eight treatments. Is the use of completions designs from North America in Russia, dampening the development of horizontal wells in Russia? What options are available to Russian operators? What should the timeline look like for the evolution of horizontal wells in Russia? Will this timeline promote the development of the reservoirs, infrastructure and ultimately the economics?
  • Session 3 - Hydraulic Fracturing in Horizontal Wells – Challenges
    In continuation of shale revolution in the North America, Russia is also gaining the momentum: in recent years, one may observe a clear tendency of developing approaches to exploiting fields with hard to recover reserves. Horizontal drilling is becoming more extensive every year with continuous adaptation of the approaches used, whilst the goals demonstrate the gain in scale and ambition. However, the HF execution phase may encounter unconventional issues that are faced by the engineers of well service and production companies on a daily basis. It is commonly admitted that the multistage HF technology itself and process solutions have drastically evolved since the first project in Russia. The Russia’s clutch for “heavy oil” has formed its own features in terms of "trials and errors", and the statistics demonstrate emerging challenges.
  • Session 4 – Well development: studies and monitoring
    Techniques for well development and putting into operation after multistage hydraulic fracturing are a final stage in the production chain aimed at obtaining well fluid, and carry a huge flow of the information that characterizes and determines the efficiency of the whole range of the performed operations, such as designing, selecting a completion system, drilling, determining horizontal length, number of hydraulic fracturing intervals and distance between them, fracture parameters, directional attitude, etc. It is for this reason that development method selection and testing after multistage hydraulic fracturing are critical work phases.
  • Session 5 – Post-HF Well Operation
    Hydraulic fracturing is not only one of the most difficult jobs in the oil and gas sector, but is the most costly way of production enhancement. High water cut of mature fields and current trends of developing approaches to exploiting fields with hard to recover reserves whip up towards the development of well drilling and development techniques, as well as production enhancement methods, including hydraulic fracturing. As it stands in the oil sector, the economic factors come to the fore, and the achievement of target gains in oil production and effect duration becomes a primary objective to attain positive business performance indicators. To that end, the entire cycle from well drilling planning to its development and operation of electrical submersible pumps (ESP) shall include risk assessment and elimination of adverse factors.

Should you have any questions about workshop attendance and registration, please contact Ulyana Dmitrieva (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Victoria Rachinskaya (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), tel. +7 495 268 0454

Detailed information: SPE_ATW_2014_Frac_EN.pdf (50 Kb)

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