308076 (v.1) Group or Team Well Design Workover Project 690

Area:

Department of Petroleum Engineering

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

4.0

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

308074 (v.1) Drilling Operations Management, Contracting and Health Safety and Environment 607 or any previous version

Syllabus:

Drilling and completion operations are crucial to the long term viability of the wells in meeting specified objectives and Workover operations are necessary when performance does not meet the planned expectations. The Well Design or Workover project covers the areas of well planning to provide optimum production and injection performance, the optimum well design to reach the specified target location ensuring safety, maximum integrity and reliability at minimal costs. This includes the selection of optimum well trajectories, equipment selection, drilling, completion and workover planning and scheduling, rig selection and cost estimate. When the project is to perform a well workover, the process will involve the selection of a new completion string, well cleaning, re-perforation of the formation or possible side-tracking and the use of stimulation techniques such as, Acidisation, acid and hydraulic fracturing and sand control operations.

Unit Outcomes:

On successful completion of this unit students will have completed a project and are able to plan and design a drilling/workover programme including bit selection and re-completion.

Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases.

Unit References:

Honarpour, M. (1986) Relative Permeability of Petroleum Reservoir. Dewan, J.T. (1983), Essentials of Modern Open-Hole Log Interpretation, PennWell. Amyx, Bass an Whiting, (1960), Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, New York, McGraw-Hill. Hawkins and Craft, (1959), Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, New Jersey, Prentince-Hall. Dake. L.P, (2001), Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering, Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company. Muskat, Morris., (1949), Physical Principles of Oil Production, 2nd Edition, (1981), Boston, McGraw-Hill. Link, K., Peter., (1982), Basic Petroleum Geology, OGCI, Oklahoma, Tulsa. Savit and Dorbin, B., Milton., CH, (1976), Introduction to Geophysical Prospecting, 1996 Edition, New York, McGraw-Hill. Burgoyne,T., Adam., et al., (1991), Applied Drilling Engineering, SPE Textbook Series. Devereux, Steve., (1999), Drilling Technology, PennWell Corporation. Devereux, Steve.,1998), Practical Well Planning and Drilling Manual, PennWell Publishing Company, Oklahoma, Tulsa. Dwight K. Smith., (1993), Well Plugging and Abandonment, PennWell Publishing Company. Sada D. Jobhi., (1991), Horizontal Well Technology, PennWell Publishing Company.

Unit Texts:

Course Notes.

Unit Assessment Breakdown:

Presentation 40%, Project Report 60%. This is a Grade/Mark assessment.

Field of Education:

10700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)

HECS Band (if applicable):

Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information:

Informational

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

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