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Oil & Gas Drilling Essentials

The documents discuss various topics in oil and gas exploration and production including geology, geophysics, drilling procedures, well completion, production technology, reservoir engineering, and more. Key aspects covered include basic geological principles and their application in hydrocarbon exploration, common measurement methods in geophysics like seismic and remote sensing, the different phases of the drilling process from installing casing to production casing, tools and logs used in well logging and petrophysics, reservoir fluid properties and drive mechanisms, and completion methods like horizontal and multi-lateral wells. The documents provide an overview of different technical aspects involved in the oil and gas E&P lifecycle.

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Oil & Gas Drilling Essentials

The documents discuss various topics in oil and gas exploration and production including geology, geophysics, drilling procedures, well completion, production technology, reservoir engineering, and more. Key aspects covered include basic geological principles and their application in hydrocarbon exploration, common measurement methods in geophysics like seismic and remote sensing, the different phases of the drilling process from installing casing to production casing, tools and logs used in well logging and petrophysics, reservoir fluid properties and drive mechanisms, and completion methods like horizontal and multi-lateral wells. The documents provide an overview of different technical aspects involved in the oil and gas E&P lifecycle.

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Drilling

Management

Learning
Concept
What, Why and
How

Setting objectives
Negotiating Success Criteria
Managing the Outside
The What and How of Planning
Leadership and Membership
The Team Together and Apart
Team Work
Project Management

Opportunity Realisation Process (ORP)


Where we are Now How Do We Get There? Where we Want to be

IDENTIFY &
SELECT DEFINE EXECUTE OPERATE
ASSESS

DG1 DG5
DG2 DG3 DG4
Geology

Understand the basic principles of geology


How this principles are applied to finding and developing
hydrocarbon
What are the main risk and uncertainties in hydrocarbon
exploration and production
What interaction does a geologist have with other
professionals at various stages of the E&P lifecycle
Geology Contd

Plate Tectonic

Continental
Alluvial
Fluvial
Braided
Meandering

Transitional
Delta
Wave
Marine Tide
Fluvial
Shelf
Deep sea
Geology Contd

Elements for hydrocarbon


accumulation

Seal

TRAP
Reservoir

Migration path

Source Rock
Geophysics
Measurement methods include
Gravity
Magnetic
Electromagnetic
Remote sensing
Seismic
2D
3D
4D The three phases of the seismic method are
Data Acquisition
Processing
Interpretation

Fault & horizon modeling


WELL/DRILLING PROCEDURE
Construct and install cellar
Install Conductor casing and cement
Reduce drill bit size & drill
Install Surface casing and cement
Reduce drill bit size & drill
Install BOP
Drill
Install Intermittent casing and cement
Reduce drill bit size & drill
Install Production casing and cement
Reduce drill bit size & drill
Install Liner and cement
Petrophysics Gamma Ray Neutron Resistivity
Log Log log
Measures rock and fluid properties

WHAT DATA
Fluide
Formation
information
information

Depth Type
Gross thicckness Distribution
Net reservoir Saturation
Porosity Pressure
Permeability Viscosity
Lithology Density

HOW ?
Drilling Logging

Mudlog (ROP, Cutting Use Loggin Tool


Lithology), (Gamma ray,
Core (Petrophysics & Neutron )
Geoly information)

APPLICATION

STOIIP=Axhx(N/G)XX(1-Sw)

N/G: Gamma Log


: Neutron Log Determine GOC, Evaluate Rt
Calculate N/G
Sw: resistivity Log & OWC, Rw ,Sw
Production Technology
The link between the subsurface and the surface

Well performance: Sand control:


Inflow performance:- IPR, PI, Screens (slotted liners)
Drawdown (P-Pwf) Gravel packers
Outflow performance
Artificial lift:
Well completion
Gas lift
Open hole or perforated
Electrical submersible
Single or dual completion
pump
Types of wells: Well stimulation:
smart,
Matrix simulation
horizontal,
multilateral
Hydraulic fracturing

Perforation:
Overbalance
Underbalance
Completion Types

Horizontal Well

Vertical Well
Reservoir Engineering
Phase Behaviour-Types
- Dry gas
- Wet gas
- Condensate
- Volatile oil
- Black oil
- Retrograde condensate

Fluid Properties
- To understand reservoir process and predict
reservoir behaviour
- To identify processing requirement
- To estimate hydrocarbon in place and reserve
- To identify market
Sampling Technique
- Recombination surface sampling
- Bottom hole sampling
Reservoir Engineering contd

Reservoir fluid Drive Mechanism


- Recovery process
- Primary/natural
- Secondary/Supplementary
- Tertiary/Enhanced

Drive Mechanism
- Solution gas
- Gas cap

- Water drive

Forces in Reservoir
-Gravity
-Capillary
-Viscousity

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