Drilling and Production

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• Drilling and Production
• RD
• and
• Perspectives on WITSML
• C. Pauchon

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Objective of the presentation

• Overview of industrial needs challenges
• Present IFP RD program on selected topics
• Well Optimisation by Geosteering
• Other topics relevant to drilling well
  technology
• Coupling between reservoir and surface facilities
• Deep offshore field design and operation
• Show the growing need for visualisation and
  simulation tools
• Stress the need for integrated tools
  communication standard for software inter
  operability and inter changeability

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Challenges

• Production from mature fields
• Increase the rate of recovery
• Complex well architectures and production
  monitoring
• Ultra deep water field design operation
• Flow assurance, flow lines, umbilicals, risers
  anchoring systems
• Field architecture
• Integrating marginal fields development and
  management of ass. gas
• Risk assessment reduction of uncertainties
• Gas transport over long distances
• Very sour gas treatment
• Heavy oil treatment and transport

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3 strategic themes
IFP program in Drilling Production

• Drilling well technology (8 M/year)
• Interactive drilling
• Drilling mud and cements
• Well monitoring control
• Drilling production in ultra deep water (12
  M/year)
• Subsea, Umbilicals, Risers Flow lines
• Flow assurance
• Processing transport of effluents (10 M/year)
• Oil water separation
• Gas treatment
• Gas transport
• Heavy oil transport

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Drilling production in complex reservoirs
Interactive drilling

• Mud logging (HC, CO2)
• Alarm system
• hydraulic
• well bore stability
• pore pressure
• Drill string fatigue indicator
• Update of geological model while drilling

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WOG field knowledge
Interpretation
Experience
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Update of the different view - a view by skill

• Driller view

• Reservoir engineer view (static)

• Geologist view

• Economist view

Geophysist view

• Reservoir engineer view (dynamic)

Information Distribution by network
Data exchange or sharing
Business Activity monitoring
 Representations  data
Business Activity related information meta data
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WOG Initialisation
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WOG Collaboration while drilling (1)
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WOG Collaboration while drilling (2)
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WOG Target drilling
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Use Of WITSML Objects for WOG

• INITIALISATION

DRILLING
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Drilling production in complex reservoirs

• Aging of cements
• Cement formulation
• Mud additives
• Green products
• formation damage...
• Well cleaning
• Cuttings transport monitoring
• Foams for UBD
• Characterization tools
• Need for integrated well bore model
• Drilling simulation
• cuttings monitoring transport
• Formation damage
• Well testing

Drilling mud cements
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Drilling production in complex reservoirs
Well equipment monitoring

• Down-hole optical sensors instrumentation
• temperature and pressure
• corrosion
• Microwave technology
• Down hole monitoring
• Sand control
• Near well bore model
• Surface production monitoring
• Monitoring of three phase separation efficiency
• Compact electro coalescing for oil water
  separation
• Monitoring of HC in produced water
• Need for an integrated tool for field surveillance

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Processing transport of effluents
TINA Dynamic simulation from well bore to
surface facilities

• Multiphase simulation from the reservoir to
  receiving facilities
• Detailed near well bore model including formation
  damage
• Dynamic coupling between the well bore
  environment and surface operations
• Interoperability  Cap Open  communication
  standard

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Drilling production in ultra deep water
Flow assurance

• LDHI formulation
• Shut down / restart under hydrate conditions
• Hydrate transportability
• JIP Phase 2
• Thermal insulation
• TiDeep JIP
• Management of uncertainties
• Risk analysis, reliability, maintainability,
  safety
• Optimal decision
• Life cycle analysis
• Coupling with deterministic approach

Subsea processing and equipment
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Drilling production in ultra deep water
Risers, umbilical flowlines

• Flexible pipes reeled pipes
• PIP systems
• H2 permeation (HyPIP JIP)
• Risers anchoring systems
• Composite material
• Fatigue analysis
• Drilling risers
• Hybrid tubes for KC lines
• Clip riser technology
• DeepLines (dynamical simulation)
• Fluid structure interaction
• Coupling Riser / Floater
• Include risk analysis reliability analysis

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Pilot loops and experimental facilities
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Conclusions

• Growing need for integrated simulation and
  visualisation tools
• Need for integrated engineering approach
• multi-disciplinary integrated teams
• Need for bridges between
• Geological description and well architecture
• Reservoir, well bore and surface simulation
• Integrated approach in field surveillance
• Global tools for an optimal exchange of
  information
• Interoperability and interchangeability of
  modules
• Global communication standards
• can induce great savings in software development
• are a key issue in IFP software development
  strategy.