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Flow Assurance
Offshore Well
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REGIONAL
REPORT:
Asia
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ESTIMATING
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OFFSHORE ADVANCES
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the major exploration, drilling, and production technological breakthroughs of 2012 while
also offering a sneak peek into 2013. Regional reports include a look at developments in
the Eaglebine play and the Arctic, and a special feature focuses on asset integrity management. As always, while youre waiting for the next copy of E&P, remember to visit
ultimate recoveries requires more than the standard calculations established in the 40s and 50s. Left, the Asia-Pacific region is poised for massive
E&P investment. (Photo courtesy of Anadarko Petroleum; cover design by
Laura J. Williams)
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processing platforms as well as the innovative introduction of full electrification of the installations from shore
an initiative driven by the Norwegian Ministry of Energy
for all future platforms on the NCS. The capex for the
Johan Sverdrups electrification project alone is estimated
to cost around US $1.5 billion. The field itself is expected
to come onstream by year-end 2018.
The project is not Statoils sole focus, of course. It
remains concentrated on unlocking the potential of
its northern waters and for those who think this is a
recent trend, it is worth pointing out that Statoil has
been exploring in the Barents Sea for more than 30
years and has been involved in 88 out of the 92 wells
drilled in the area in total.
The company will drill nine wells in 2013 in its Barents
Sea acreage as well as tripling its Arctic technology
research budget from $14 million (NOK 80 million)
this year to $43 million (NOK 250 million) in 2013.
Statoils exploration executive vice president Tim
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describing it recently in a briefing at the Offshore Northern Seas conference in Norway as a less challenging
area, as the Norwegian Barents is one of the only Arctic
areas with a year-round ice-free zone.
Concept screening
The deepwater drilling rig Aker Barents drilled the Havis
discovery well in the Barents Sea for Statoil and is due to
drill several more wells over the next few months. (Photos
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Vice President Margareth Ovrum is a key figure in the
companys push northwards. She has a strong belief in
the importance of the subsea factory concept as a
major potential solution for the Barents Sea and the
Arctic as a whole.
Statoil already has made major inroads into establishing this concept, of course, being under way with two
major seabed gas compression and boosting projects offshore Norway on its Asgard and Gullfaks fields. Subsea
technology will solve a lot of the challenges, Ovrum
told E&P at ONS after one briefing. We have launched
our ambition for a subsea factory by 2020. That is our
road map.
She also added that Statoil was developing more
robust solutions for both permanent and floating production solutions for its northern seas and the Arctic.
A key technology soon to be added to Norways offshore tool box is the already well-established spar production platform. Somewhat surprisingly, it is only now
that a spar has been selected for use in its waters.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, however, Statoil has seized
the opportunity and taken it further the first spar
on the NCS will be the worlds largest (deck weight of
21,000 tonnes; substructure weight of 40,000 tonnes),
will be the first with gas condensate storage, and will
sit in 1,300 m (4,265 ft) water depth. The facility will
be used to develop the Aasta Hansteen field in the
northern Norwegian Sea.
Opportunity enabler
Statoil describes Aasta Hansteen as an opportunity
enabler, as the facility is planned to act as a hub for
future developments, with built-in spare area and weight
capacity, riser slots, and subsea tie-in connections. Gas
processing capacity has been set at 812 MMcf/d.
These world-class developments in both Norways
mature areas and its emerging northern waters are clear
proof that persistence and long-term thinking by both
oil companies and national governments can indeed
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1,000 seabed nodes, with Fugros 1,300 seabed nodes to
create a focused global leader in the fast-growing
seabed acquisition market, according to information
from CGGVeritas.
There also is a commercial agreement for CGGVeritas
to act as a nonexclusive broker of Fugros existing multiclient data, which remains owned by Fugro. This gives
CGGVeritas access to a broader range of client contacts
while increasing its exposure to complementary and
high-potential regions such as Australia and northwest
Europe, including the Barents Sea.
Finally, the deal includes a global strategic technical
and commercial mutual preferred supplier
agreement.
The addition of Jason and Robertson to the CGGVeritas portfolio
will beef up the companys reservoir characterization and exploration and appraisal capabilities,
adding more than 500 employees and giving it a leading position in these markets.
This is going to create synergies,
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for scaled savings for the fleet but also through the
technical and commercial leverage in processing, imaging, and multiclient, said Lefort. We also expect additional sales from our preferred supplier agreement.
Moving into more of a service-oriented model will
help buffer the company against the cyclical nature of
the business, he added. The deal also is expected to be
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(229 ft). The suction pile, similar to a spud can, is what
moors the tower into the seabed.
Tower total weight is 2,500 tons, and it supports a
three-level drilling and production topsides facility that
weighs in at 2,300 tons. The topside is fully equipped to
produce 12,200 b/d of oil and 12.8 MMcf/d of gas and
inject 3,500 b/d of water, and it also is capable of supporting a drilling rig servicing 24 well slots.
Constructed in 11 months at Wisons fabrication
facility in Nantong, China, both were loaded onto the
Osprey, a heavy lift transport vessel, before departing for
Peru in early August. Installation began shortly after the
Osprey arrived in BPZ Energys Corvina field in
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Naturally, as anyone familiar with unconventional reservoirs
can attest, few of the industrys hard-gained rules apply. A
key issue that refuses to be solved by more science or R&D
is a lack of production history.
This also affects DCA, Lee said, because the assumption
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months is totally incorrect in low-permeability reservoirs.
It can take years before an unconventional well begins to
drain out to its drainage boundaries, he said. Until then,
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atural gas is an important component of a sustainable future energy mix, including in Europe, and
tight and shale gas are expected to play a role. Both the
demand and the markets will be there to take advantage
of any tight and shale gas supplies that are developed in
Europe.
In Europe, the exploration of shale gas is still in
its early stages, and no commercial production is
taking place. A significant period will be required for
development.
Public concern about the safety and environmental
impact of tight and shale gas continues to mount.
These concerns focus on the process of hydraulic fracturing, possible impacts on water availability, and contamination. There are also more general concerns
about other impacts, including noise, compensation,
and intensity of development. This means that the
industry must be transparent about its operations and
listen and respond to the concerns of its neighbors.
And it must maintain the very highest operational and
environmental standards.
The success of proven technologies like horizontal
drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies in Europe
also will depend on the extent to which environmental
benefits and impacts will be carefully assessed and balanced from the outset. The role of public authorities and
regulators is therefore to ensure that any exploration
and exploitation of tight and shale gas resources are carried out in an environmentally safe and responsible
manner and in compliance with applicable legislation.
There is a robust legislative and regulatory framework
in place within the EU member states. In January 2012,
after conducting a study based on a sample of four EU
member states France, Germany, Poland, and Sweden
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Member states must ensure via appropriate licensing
and permitting regimes that any exploration or development of energy resources involving hydraulic fracturing complies with the requirements of the existing
legal framework in place in the EU, including provisions
on the protection of environment and health.
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Unconventional reservoirs are highly variable, as experience in US shales has proven in recent years. Conventional geological and petrophysical models for sandstones
and carbonates do not apply, nor does one shale play
model readily fit another. Usual evaluation methods cannot to identify productive zones. The production mechanism itself is not completely understood, and the decline
patterns are even less well comprehended.
The current method of extraction is to place the wellbore in communication with as much of the rock surface
as possible to get the gas to flow through the fracture networks that have been created. Long horizontal sections
are completed with staged sets of perforations that are
then massively hydraulically fractured. This brute-force
approach uses vast amounts of horsepower, sand, and
fresh water. As there is no consistent method of evaluating the producibility of the shale, the perforations are
most often planned as a geometric pattern.
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Optimization
The Mangrove reservoir-centric stimulation design software provides an integrated, science-based approach to
enable a seismic-to-simulation workflow. The software has
been developed after extensive theoretical and experimental work to fill the void in complex fracture design tool
modeling capability. Its key function, crossing-criteria
equations to model the interaction between hydraulic fractures and natural fractures in the reservoir, as described
by a discrete fracture network (DFN) geological model,
have been developed. The software analytically models
this interaction in terms of various parameters, including
angle of incidence, net pressure, fluid viscosity, and minimum-to-maximum stress contrast in the reservoir.
The workflow is rooted in reservoir characterization.
The software leverages the science of the Petrel E&P
software platform to build multidomain and multisource
cross-validated reservoir models to account for heterogeneity that dictates completion and stimulation in
unconventional reservoirs. Optimizing the number
and location of fracture treatment stages has been
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than fourfold production increases on two pilot vertical
wells versus conventional vertical wells in the field. Reservoir quality and completion quality calculations were
used in the reservoir-centric stimulation design software
to describe the capacity of the reservoir to produce economical flowrates of hydrocarbons as well as to determine
the propensity of the reservoir to respond adequately to
massive hydraulic fracturing stimulation. Both characteristics are required to generate economic success.
For two operators in the Marcellus shale, the Mangrove workflow has been successfully applied in optimizing job design. Pinpointing perforation location and
staging yielded production increases of more than
50% from the baseline performance of offset wells,
which were designed on a static geometric perforation
location basis. In these cases, advanced sonic logging
was deployed as part of the measurements package to
calculate anisotropic rock properties along the horizontal. A completion advisor module was used to group perforation clusters and stages into comparable sections of
rock. Microseismic activity was monitored and verified
comprehensive stimulation across the stage clusters.
Compared to the baseline offset wells where this technique was not used, only a portion of the clusters
received stimulation in each stage.
Technology challenge
Unconventional resources have a major contribution to
make to future energy supply, but technology will have to
evolve for them to realize their full potential. It may be up
to 10 years before these resources are producing fully, at
least in many emerging plays. While the fracturing complexity seen in unconventional resource development
has upended the classical bi-wing fracture optimization
methodology, new technologies are allowing a return to
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decisions that maximize return on investment.
To take the analogy one step further, an F1 pit crew
can use the live data feed to advise the driver when to
make tactical on-track adjustments. Similarly, officebased geologists and drilling engineers can monitor
real-time log data during geosteering operations and
instruct the directional driller to make course corrections when necessary.
F1 racing teams also use real-time data to make more
strategic decisions. For example, they must determine
when to bring the car into the pits and adjust the settings necessary to achieve optimal performance. E&P
teams also make strategic decisions based on new data.
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hole and change the drill bit, when to alter the mud
weight, or even when a new ahead-of-the-bit well plan
should trigger an update of field models and maps to
ensure safer, more successful outcomes.
For either team, success depends on more than just
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in the North Sea, and compelling prospects in East Africa
and the Arctic. Demand for 3-D seismic has grown by
more than 70% since 2006 in terms of acreage shot and
should be the primary driver of future spending growth.
Regional interest
Operators showed a higher-than-expected commitment to
the deepwater GoM in the recent central licensing round,
which attracted $1.7 billion in high bids. The optimism
ahead of the upcoming five rounds of central and western
GoM lease sales is a positive for the seismic industry, which
should benefit from a recovery in vessel demand to preMacondo levels and higher multiclient sales. In the three
months prior to Macondo, 15 3-D vessels with six or more
streamers were active in the region, compared to the five
vessels active in 1Q 2012. Following the disaster, nearly
20% of the 3-D vessel capacity exited the GoM and put
negative pressure on day rates as the vessels entered the
international markets. Due largely to the positive outlook
in the GoM, Dahlman Rose expects demand in the GoM
to reach eight to 10 vessels by early 2013.
The recent announcement for Brazils 11th licensing
round, which includes 87 offshore blocks and is likely
to occur in May 2013, should add several vessels to the
seven currently operating in the region. Additionally,
there is clearer visibility that the Brazilian presalt round
will occur in November 2013, which will provide an additional boost to multiclient sales and a further tightening
of the high-end vessel market.
The market in Angola strengthened in 1Q 2012 with the
commencement of a large 10-block multiclient program
for Sonangol being split between WesternGeco, TGS, and
PGS. There are currently eight 3-D vessels operating offshore Angola and Nigeria, and interest also is growing in
surrounding offshore regions, including Liberia, Sierra
Leone, Ghana, Cote dIvoire, and South Africa. Exploration in several of these regions will be focused in the
Transform Margin a relatively new play spearheaded by
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Lundins Johan Sverdrup, have revitalized exploration
interest in the region. In late June, Norway formally
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crisis, the seismic vessel market is finally returning to balance in 2012.
Looking forward, there are seven high-end vessels scheduled for delivery
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marine seismic business. Broadband
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a 10% to 15% pricing premium over
conventional 3-D seismic, is able to capture pressure and velocity waves and
thus can provide a higher quality, more
accurate, and deeper subsurface image.
Broadband is expected to account for
25% of 3-D seismic demand by yearend, up from 5% in 2010.
Multiclient libraries
In spite of an improving contract market, multiclient investments are growing in advance of the multitude of
upcoming licensing rounds. CGGVeritas expects to invest US $380 million in
its multiclient business in 2012, compared to $230 million in 2011, while
PGS plans to increase its multiclient
investment more than 40% in 2012.
Through its strong performance during the last down cycle, TGS demonstrated the value of multiclient as a
standalone business and has influenced more focused multiclient operations throughout the industry.
Strong evidence exists that the
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reserves estimation and lead to better well planning.
Therefore, extraction of 3-D geobodies has become fundamentally important in seismic interpretation. Currently,
geobody delineation uses volumetric threshold-based
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An adaptive geobody defines a collapse structure. a) The reflectivity data
(gray scale) is displayed with an RGB blend of three frequency response
ambiguous representation of the subsurface
volumes that highlight the circular collapse feature in the center. Note the
geology that is subject to artifacts and noise,
similarity in the response within the collapse to that of the surrounding area.
which means there are often cases when the
b) The adaptive geobody grown using the RGB blend displays the confidence
data do not adequately represent the geology
value on the surface (red is high confidence; blue is low confidence).
that is being imaged. In these cases, it is necessary for the interpreter to extend or reposition
a significant drilling hazard in carbonate plays but can
areas of the geobody to fit with knowledge based on the
be close to impossible to interpret conventionally.
users experience. This workflow accommodates that need
Extracting them as 3-D geobodies gives a much better
and allows the interpreter to manually adjust parts of the
understanding of the shape and geometry and of the
geobody as desired. It is this use of both the available data
interaction between neighboring features than can ever
and expert knowledge in creating accurate 3-D representabe achieved using surface-based horizon interpretation.
tions of geological elements that gives the adaptive geobodThe adaptive geobody technique can rapidly extract such
ies method its power. A result is guaranteed, and that result
features as geobody objects, allowing much more wellwill match the data as much as possible while not being
informed wellpath planning.
constrained by data imperfections. Two areas in which
adaptive geobodies can turn tasks that were often impractiUnique approach
cal or impossible into something that can be done easily
The adaptive geobodies method is a unique approach to
are in interpretation of channel systems and carbonate disdefining the 3-D geometry of geological features from seissolution features.
mic data. The use of local data statistics and multiattribute
Channel delineation
inputs allows the adaptive geobodies to replicate some of
In hydrocarbon plays associated with channel systems, the
the power of the human visual system while maintaining
use of RGB blends of three frequency-magnitude response
an objective analysis approach. Combining this with intervolumes has become an accepted interpretation techpreter guidance means that geobodies can be extracted in
nique. Primarily this is because RGB frequency blends
a data-driven manner in almost any geological situation.
greatly aid interpretation of the depositional environment
Crucially, the adaptive geobody technique allows the geoand reveal additional details of channel structure, overbody to continue growing in a stable manner as the data
bank deposits, and splays. The problem is that reservoirs
characteristics are changing while the interpreter remains
associated with channel systems often are extremely hetin control of the extraction. This maximizes the use of
erogeneous and therefore have a highly variable character,
both data and external knowledge to give unprecedented
making geobody extraction of most channel systems
robustness. In the exploration projects in which it has
extremely difficult if not impossible using conventional
been applied, the adaptive geobodies technique has
methods. However, with the adaptive geobody technique it
added significant value through enabling the extraction of
is a straightforward process that can be applied in minutes.
multiple individual but overlying channel systems, complex fan geometries, or subtle karst features. The adaptive
Interconnected dissolution features
geobodies technique has improved the understanding of
and collapse structures
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models, defining potential prospectivity, and delineating
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OFFSHORE
WELL INTERVENTION
Greater stability
By latching on to the external profile of the wellhead
high-pressured housing, the system prevents wellhead
turning and listing for greater stability. And unlike an
internal latch mechanism, which risks damaging the
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position as part of a bottomhole assembly (BHA). The
grapple arms are activated by moving the mandrel body
upwards. The grapple arms then close and engage the
external profile on the subsea wellhead.
The latch and unlatch can be visually confirmed using
an ROV at the seafloor. The mandrel is rotated into the
locked position inside the grapple housing, which is also
visually confirmed via the ROV.
When the cut is made in tension, the grapple arms are
already engaged and latched onto the high-pressure wellhead housing with an overpull of 20,000 lb to 30,000 lb.
Once the cut has been completed, the entire assembly is
pulled out of the hole and landed in the rigs moonpool.
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The market for light well intervention vessels has both opportunities and pitfalls
for new players in equal measure.
AX-S
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which recently entered administration after spending the
past two years and an estimated US $200 million trying to
fine-tune its AX-S system, which it had fitted to the subsea
vessel Havila Phoenix. Expro had recently secured its first
major contract in the LWI market, but it was too little too
late. BG Group had awarded the company a rolling contract with the potential for an extended intervention
campaign, which was due to start in October this year.
This was not soon enough for the Aberdeen-based company, which had been paying approximately $90,000 to
$100,000 per day for the vessel and other extras such as
ROVs, with roughly half just being for the base vessel.
The vessel has now been returned to Fugro-TSM, which
is chartering the vessel from Havila Shipping but has yet
to decide upon its future.
The administrators KPMG are seeking buyers for
Expro AX-S (the Expro Group is unaffected), and there
are several companies out there who might be interested
in taking on the system, which has the selling point of
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WELL INTERVENTION
Barriers to entry
Any newcomers into the LWI market will have to compete
with these three players who all have long-term contracts
in place, as well as Eide Marine Services. The latter has
managed to break into the market with its own eight-year
contract to supply a hybrid design Category A LWI vessel
for Statoil, although whether the company has the ability
to maintain its market position remains to be seen.
There are many companies out there that may have the
technology to enter the LWI vessel market. The question
is whether they have the capital and cash flow to prove
their technology before they are awarded a long-term contract by a major company or if they can convince smaller
oil companies to take the risk of backing them.
LEFT: Statoil earlier this year opted for Eide Marine Services innovative hybrid Category A semisubmersible
vessel for an initial eight-year LWI term of service. The
first of its kind, the vessel hull is nearing completion in
China before it heads for STX in Finland for outfitting.
(Image courtesy of Eide Marine Services)
ABOVE: Aker Oilfield Services Skandi Aker is the first
well service vessel of its kind capable of performing
riser-based subsea well intervention in deep and ultradeep waters. Its first contract will be for Total E&P
Angola offshore Angola starting early in 2013. (Photo
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Isolation system
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A new swellable system uses proprietary elastomer technology to effectively
seal off micro-annular voids.
tion. Planning for these problems is complicated by differences in wellbore fluids and downhole temperatures,
which affect swelling and compatibility.
hallow gas migration through cement, in which gas
Conventional elastomers tend to swell only in the presfrom a shallow zone migrates to the surface before the
ence of a single fluid phase oil or water and, dependcement can properly harden, affects zonal isolation and
ing on the downhole temperature, may swell too slowly to
has been a major source of problems for many years. It is
isolate the wellbore prior to gas migration. The proprinot easy to prevent the micro-annular gas fissures or peretary hybrid elastomers used in the isolation system
manent flow channels to the surface created due to this
demonstrate greater flexibility and are activated by oil,
migration. Because they occur at shallow to medium
water, wet gas, or a combination of any of these to condepths, it is difficult to maintain sufficient hydrostatic
form to and seal off the micro-annulus. The elastomers
pressure while the cement is still in a liquid state, and
also are designed to swell only when they are in place to
lower temperatures near the surface extend the transition
avoid rapid reaction with wellbore fluid during deployperiod from the cements liquid to elastic-solid state. In
ment on the pipe or with the mix water in the cement
applications where the well is going to be fractured, the
while it is curing.
problem can be further compounded due to balThe MSIS-Unit is the central system compolooning and contraction of the pipe from the
nent. When combined with other mechanical
fracing pressure cycles.
cementing products, the unit can provide excelThis is becoming a particularly difficult problent casing standoff and highly efficient displacelem as operators continue to push into unconment of mud during primary cementing
ventional shale plays characterized by a large
operations for improved wellbore stability in both
number of natural fractures. Solutions that can
regular and irregular annular geometries.
effectively, economically, and permanently isoThe systems ultimate goal is to create at
late these zones and allow the cement to
least one point in the well where total annular
harden thoroughly prior to the onset of gas
isolation is achieved. However, the traditional
migration are becoming increasingly critical
deployment scenario consists of strategically
to the long-term viability of the well.
positioning multiple tools on cemented pipe to
Weatherfords swellable Micro-Seal isolation
provide a series of response points to ensure that
system (MSIS) prevents fluid and pressure
fluid migration is stopped wherever it may occur.
migration because of its proprietary hybrid
The customizable system comprises of a family
swellable elastomer that conforms to and
of elastomers and centralizer designs for deployseals against micro-annular voids between
ment in a range of wellbore geometries and reserthe cement sheath inner diameter and the
voir temperatures. The elastomer is available in a
casing outer diameter.
slow-swelling form for deployment in wells with
ambient temperatures of 66C up to 150C (150F
Conforming to the problem
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an ability to isolate wellbores in many types
point. For wells in the range of 38C (100F)
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of wells, a range of construction challenges
or lower, another elastomer can be used to
of the isolation system,
complicates isolation performance when conswell more quickly and provide faster microhelps to enhance annular annular isolation.
ventional elastomers are used. These chalisolation. (Images courlenges range from short-term stimulation
The suitable elastomer is selected for each
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concerns to long-term micro-annulus isolawell after comprehensive screening tests durDavid Westgard, Weatherford
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Drilling fluid
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The new RHADIANT
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The ultra-high temperature non-aqueproduct degradation,
prevents wellbore con- ous drilling fluid system is the first
trol issues, and provides drilling fluid proven to deliver stable
rheological performance at bottoma thin filter cake for
enhanced logging con- hole temperatures approaching
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tional non-aqueous
drilling fluids, the system prevents barite sag and stuck pipe, according to the
company. The drilling fluid system maintains a stable rheological profile and extreme temperature stability during
prolonged static conditions throughout well construction
and openhole logging, with little maintenance necessary.
Ultra-thin and slick filter cake deposits and the stable rheologies clear the path for logging, casing, and cementing
operations, thus enabling accurate perforation placement,
optimized completions, and quality reservoir characterization, according to the company.
The technology was used in an ultra-high temperature
exploration well in the Gulf of Thailand, where, with zero
lost circulation, it effectively delivered filtration control
and filter cake quality with stable rheological properties.
Even though the fluid remained static for more than 90
hours, the customer was able to perform seven openhole
wireline logging runs when using the drilling fluid system.
REGIONAL REPORT:
ASIA PACIFIC
ven with heightened political tensions between countries bordering the East China and South China seas,
the Asia-Pacific region is set for unprecedented growth
as demand for natural gas and oil continues to surge
upwards.
As the world and the region continue to search for
undiscovered hydrocarbon resources and to maximize
already developed fields, capex investments in E&P activities are important for long-term producing countries like
Malaysia to tackle production declines and continue to
compete with new players, as smaller countries, such as
Brunei, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, come into the market, said Dr. Arnis Judzis, Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) board of directors representative, at the
opening of OTC Asia 2012 Oct. 2.
Asia is becoming increasingly important in the world
of oil and gas exploration and drilling. The region is supported by strong fundamentals including sustained high
rates of economic growth and high oil prices, leading
many international operators to expand oil E&P activity in
a region with a rapidly growing thirst for energy, he said.
Asia-Pacifics offshore resource development, which
already accounts for almost 30% of the 306 E&P projects
worldwide, is poised for aggressive growth in the next five
years, according to an offshore oil and gas market analysis
provided by Infield Systems Ltd.s, Regional Perspectives
Offshore Asia Oil and Gas Market Report to 2015, which
was commissioned by the OTC board.
Forecasters estimated that between 2011 and 2015,
US $87 billion would be spent in the region. The largest
capex increase in the region is expected to be for projects
offshore Malaysia at more than $59 billion even ahead
of China and India. An estimated 84 fixed deepwater
platforms and eight FPSOs will be installed offshore
Malaysia between 2011 and 2015.
As the demand for fixed, floating, and subsea units
continues to rise, we envision the players here making
technological leaps in drilling, exploration, production,
and environmental protection over the next few years,
Judzis said.
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REGIONAL REPORT:
ASIA PACIFIC
Fixed-platform market
Asia is expected to be the largest fixed-platform market
over the next five years in terms of capex. Forecasts indicate that the region will take up almost 31% of the global
market between 2011 and 2015 or $27.5 billion out of
$89.8 billion, according to the report.
The greatest expenditure and units will be directed
towards projects offshore China, Malaysia, and Thailand.
China is expected to install 78 units with a capex of $5.7
billion, while Malaysia is expected to install 84 units costing more than $4.4 billion.
Asia is expected to install 459 fixed platforms between
2011 and 2015, with the vast majority of units expected to
be pile-type (434 platforms out of 459 fixed units), mostly
for shallow-water developments. Drilling in deep water offshore China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia is expected to
speed up, the report continued.
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REGIONAL REPORT:
ASIA PACIFIC
Attempts to occupy islands by Japanese and Chinese protesters have heightened the conflict over maritime boundaries in the East and South China seas. Japan, Vietnam,
Malaysia, and the Philippines are facing off with China
over which country owns what part of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
As the demand for oil and gas in the region continues
to grow, these conflicts over potential petroleum resources
are becoming more threatening. The China-Japan confrontation is getting the biggest headlines currently, but
leasing activity offshore Vietnam and the Philippines is
heating up the confrontations as well.
CNOOC recently offered 22 blocks in the South China
Sea, much to the consternation of Vietnam. Nine of the
blocks, according to Vietnam, are within the Vietnamese
exclusive economic zone. The blocks are well south of
mainland China; thus the OCS claim for China would be
difficult to determine.
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Seismic interpretation
Six key horizons were interpreted for this project. Five
of these are major unconformities, regional seismic
markers that have been tied to formation tops where
well data is available. Due to the nature of these markers, interpreting horizons away from the well ties was
generally straightforward over most of the project area
except in zones of major compression and inversion
where either the horizon has been eroded or the tectonic complexity prevents accurate imaging by the seismic data.
A simplified stratigraphic column has been prepared
FIGURE 2. This simplified stratigraphic column shows the litholofor the EJMM MegaProject area. This shows the key
gies across the basins and the relationship of the horizons in
lithological descriptions of the four main basins (East
this project.
Java/North Lombok, South Makassar, North Makassar,
and Muara basins) and their relationship to the horiAdvantages of a MegaProject when exploring
zons picked (Figure 2).
The EJMM MegaProject gives new entrants and existing
The seabed horizon was picked as the first continuous
operators the opportunity to regionally evaluate the geotrough on all the 2-D lines across the project area. The
logical concepts and hydrocarbon play elements of these
importance of picking this reflector is mainly for calculatTertiary basins on a single 2-D seismic dataset. It enables
ing time thickness maps. The Early Pliocene Unconfortying key wells, understanding recent well results, and
mity, related to the collision of the Australian continental
correlating stratigraphy across the basins to help derisk
plate with the Eurasian continental plate, is the shallowest
decisions and high-grade prospective areas.
horizon picked. The Mid-Miocene Unconformity is an
The main aim is to be able to evaluate basins at the
extensive marker that correlates to a major eustatic sea
big picture regional scale instead of postage stamp
level fall and the spreading of the South China Sea. It
evaluations. A continuous 2-D section approximately
reflects transpressional inversions related to a number
2,000 km (1,242 miles) long shows how the four basins
of local and regional collisional events, primarily along
can be seen in one section (Figure 3).
basin edges. Post-rift thermal sag was initiated in the
Late Eocene and continued through the Oligocene
into the Early Miocene. The Top Oligocene
horizon defines the end of this rift/sag period
and the onset of inversion as the front edge of
the Australian Plate makes contact with the
Eurasian Plate. It marks the end of oil-prone
lacustrine and deltaic petroleum systems and
the beginning of the development of shallow
to deep marine systems.
The Eocene Unconformity is a rifting surface
related to the initial collision of the IndianAustralian plate with Eurasia and the beginning
of the spreading of the Celebes Sea.
The top pre-rift pick marks the base Tertiary.
There are only a couple of well ties for this
horizon in the South Makassar basin. The geoFIGURE 3. The North Makassar and South Makassar basins are shown here in
logical age of the pre-rift section is equivocal,
usually labeled as Pre-Tertiary but postulated to the higher image in one continuous seismic section, while all four Tertiary
be at least Mesozoic and likely to be even older, basins of the EJMM MegaProject are shown in one continuous seismic section
in the lower image.
possibly ranging to Pre-Cambrian.
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Eni mulls floater for Ghana
Italys Eni is considering a fast-track early production
development using an FPSO for its first deepwater oil discovery offshore Ghana. The state-owned operator confirmed that its first crude discovery in the Offshore Cape
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NORTH AMERICA
Shells Alaskan adventure kicks off
Royal Dutch Shell is under way with a well in the Beaufort Sea offshore northern Alaska targeting the Sivulliq
prospect. As with a well it spudded in September in the
Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska, Shell is currently
permitted by federal authorities to drill only to shallow
depths short of oil-bearing reservoirs. The permits
issued by the US Bureau of Environmental Safety and
Enforcement allow only top-hole drilling because Shell
has not yet met the required oil-spill regulations, having
failed to gain US Coast Guard clearance for a required
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oil-spill barge.
Shell said the
barge, the Arctic
Challenger, will
not be available
for use this year
in Alaska but
that repairs
should be completed in time
The Kulluk rig is drilling the Sivulliq prospect
for next years
26 km (16 miles) offshore in the Beaufort Sea
open-water
offshore Alaska. (Image courtesy of Shell)
drilling season.
The Sivulliq
prospect being drilled by the Kulluk rig is 26 km (16
miles) offshore. The Burger prospect in the Chukchi,
which Shell is drilling with the Noble Discoverer drillship,
is 112 km (70 miles) offshore.
TGS survey in British Columbia
TGS, through its newly-acquired subsidiary Arcis Seismic
Solutions, is to acquire 3-D seismic onshore in northeast
British Columbia, Canada. The Cameron River 3-D survey is a multiclient project that will cover an area of 470
sq km (181.5 sq miles) along the prolific liquids-rich Triassic Montney and Doig unconventional fairways, said
TGS. High-resolution seismic will enable exploration for
stratigraphic and structural traps and will illuminate the
Cretaceous through Devonian section. The seismic data
will be processed by Arcis. Intermediate products will be
available to the industry in 1Q 2013, with final data available in the second quarter.
GULF OF MEXICO
Pemex reveals second Perdido find
Pemex has confirmed another ultra-deepwater oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) with estimated reserves
put at about 200 MMbbl of oil. The find follows on the
heels of its Trion-1 discovery in the Perdido Fold Belt
area, revealed in August. This latest find on the Supremus
prospect was made in a water depth of around 2,900 m
(9,500 ft) and is part of the companys US $1.1 billion
spending program this year on deepwater targets. The
probe was drilled by the Bicentenario semisubmersible rig,
which will next go to drill a wildcat on the Maximino
prospect, for which Pemex also has high expectations.
The estimated proven, probable, and possible (3P)
reserves for the Supremus-1 well are put at between 75
MMbbl and 125 MMbbl of crude. Trion-1 was estimated
to have 3P reserves of up to 400 MMbbl of crude.
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SOUTH AMERICA
Uruguay deepwater winners
ANCAP, the national oil company of Uruguay, has
signed offshore production-sharing contracts (PSCs)
with four companies that pave the way for deepwater
exploration activity in frontier Atlantic Margin acreage
over the next three years. The NOC signed the deals
with BG, BP, Total, and Tullow Oil, initially awarded the
blocks in April. The two British companies each won
three oil blocks, while there was one each for Total and
Tullow. The blocks are located in water depths ranging
between 500 m and 2,500 m (1,640 ft and 8,202 ft) in
the Pelotas and Punta del Este basins. Total planned
investment is estimated at up to US $1.6 million over the
first three years. The work plans for the first three-year
period include one exploration well, 3-D seismic data,
3-D electromagnetic data, seabed samples, and 2-D seismic data. Each PSC covers a period of 30 years.
Petrobras fills in Franco SW details
Petrobras has completed drilling a fourth well in its
Transfer of Rights area in the presalt Santos basin and
verified a hydrocarbon column of 438 m (1,437 ft). The
Brazilian major had previously announced the find in
August when the well was still being drilled and had
reached a depth of 5,656 m (18,557 ft). At that time it
had confirmed up to 295 m (968 ft) of net pay. The
3-BRSA-1053-RJS (3-RJS-699) well, known as Franco SW,
is located in 2,024 m (6,641 ft) water depth around
210 km (130 miles) offshore Rio de Janeiro. It is also
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RWE extends Nile Delta find
Germanys RWE Dea Egypt has confirmed a further extension of the South Sidi Ghazy-1x discovery in the Egyptian
Nile Delta. The latest well follows the successful appraisal
of the North Sidi Ghazy-1x discovery reported earlier this
year. The companys Disouq project is planned to start producing next year. Well SSG-1-2 was the second to be drilled
in the South Sidi Ghazy structure and reached a total measured depth of 2,833 m (9,295 ft). The well was drilled 1.3
km (0.8 miles) northwest from the discovery and confirmed the extension of the gas resources and the good
Messinian (Abu Madi formation) reservoir properties in a
northwestern compartment of the field. The first phase of
the Disouq development will see RWE Dea develop seven
gas discoveries together with the Egyptian Natural Gas
Holding Company and the Suez Oil Company. The
onshore block covers 5,375 sq km (2,075 sq miles).
Ultra-deep wildcat off Israel
Calgary-based GeoGlobal Resources Inc. has spudded a
deepwater wildcat offshore Israel in the Mediterranean
Sea. The Sara-1 exploration probe was spudded by
GeoGlobal and its partners in September using
the Noble Homer Ferrington semisubmersible rig.
The well is located 60
km (37 miles) offshore
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m (4,593 ft) water
depth. Sara-1 is planned
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m (13,124 ft) true vertiNobles Homer Ferrington rig will
cal depth subsea and
drill the Sara-1 probe to a planned
is anticipated to take
depth of 4,000 m (13,124 ft).
approximately 50 days
(Image courtesy of Noble Drilling)
to drill. GeoGlobal is the
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CENTRAL ASIA
Black Sea shoot for Lukoil
A 3-D seismic survey is underway by Lukoil subsidiary
Lukoil Overseas on two deepwater blocks in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea. The shoot over the East Rapsodia and Trident blocks is being carried out by CGGVeritas
and is due for completion in November. The survey will
cover up to 2,000 sq km (772 sq miles). The blocks are
being explored by Lukoil (80%, operator) and US independent Vanco International (20%). The consortium was
awarded the right to implement these projects as a result
of concession agreements signed in 2011. Both blocks feature water depths ranging from 90 m to 1,000 m (295 ft to
3,281 ft) and lie between 60 km and 100 km (37 miles to
62 miles) offshore.
ASIA PACIFIC
Chevrons Satyr no myth
Chevron has notched up further exploration success
offshore Western Australia, with its Satyr-2 probe in the
Greater Gorgon area hitting gas pay. The exploration
well in the Carnarvon basin confirmed approximately
39 m (128 ft) of net gas pay in the WA-374-P permit area
approximately 120 km (73 miles) northwest of Barrow
Island. The well was drilled in 1,088 m (3,570 ft) of
water to a total depth of 3,796 m (12,454 ft). Satyr-2 is
Chevrons 15th discovery in Australia since mid-2009.
Chevron Australia is the operator of WA-374-P with a 50%
interest, while Shell and ExxonMobil each hold 25%.
Beach in a whirl over Windmill
Australian independent Beach Energys Windmill-1
exploration well in PEL 92 on the western flank of the
Cooper basin onshore Australia discovered oil in the
Namur Sandstone and Birkhead formations. The well
reached a total depth of 2,100 m (6,890 ft), and wireline
logs have now been acquired. The well hit a 6-m (20-ft)
net oil column in the Namur sandstone and indications
of oil within the Birkhead formation, said minority partner Cooper Energy in a press statement. Joint venture
participants in PEL 92 are Beach Energy (75%, operator) and Cooper Energy (25%).
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Many of the issues discussed here are caused by poorquality governance. However, I believe the solution starts
at the local and project level. The implicit contract that
a company has is that a project will damage the local
neighborhood but that local people will be better off.
The industry has manifestly broken this contract in that
the populace is patently worse off.
Achieving a winning outcome to this contract requires
managing the interplay of three risk domains: environmental, societal, and technical. The value of the environment must be determined in social terms (and not a
purist preservation measure set in Western ivory towers).
We can manage our environmental impact at the project
design phase through engagement with the local people.
We can also manage the benefits to society with local procurement and wealth creation (i.e., not just building
schools and hospitals to salve our conscience).
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