Schlumberger Wellbore Quality Services

Femi Tanimola
BG Group, TVP, Reading
15 January 2014
Drilling Hazards in Unstable Wellbores
Drilling Events
Tight hole & pack-offs
Stuck pipe
Kicks & mud losses
Consequences
Excessive reaming & wiper trips
Fishing & lost in hole
Sidetracks
Difficulty running casing
Safe window pore pressure to fracture gradient
Requires immediate response during all drilling operations
Stable window shear failure to fracture gradient
Primarily affects tripping need to understand locations and causes
STABLE WINDOW
SAFE WINDOW
Pp
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Breakout
The Drilling Window
Wellbore Quality Services
Wellbore quality services provide 24/7, real-time surface monitoring and
analysis of a range of drilling parameters related to pore pressure, hole
cleaning, and wellbore stability to help:
identify drilling risks and operational issues early
use predictive models and real-time data to improve operational
performance
minimize NPT and invisible lost time (ILT)
increase drilling efficiency and reduce overall costs.
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Wellbore Quality Services
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Balance
Well
Challenges
Service
Delivery
Mud Logging & Surface Data
Services
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Drilling Geomechanics
CLEAR
Metering fluid mass balance / behaviour
Metering rock mass balance / behaviour
Monitoring through surface systems
Analysis with recommendations
Managing with Drilling Geomechanics
Delivered by Drilling Analysts
Wellbore Quality Services
Wellbore Quality Services
CLEAR
CLEAR* Cuttings Loading and Wellbore Stability Surveillance Service
Features
Measured weights of solids/material falling from the shale shakers
One cutting flow meter installed per shale shaker
Data processing to:
Calculate dry cutting weight, volume & flow
Continuous real-time comparison with theoretical values
Benefits
Determine drilling thresholds to maximize ROP while ensuring correct hole cleaning
Monitor cleaning cycles and minimize off-bottom time
Optimize cuttings removal by evaluating optimal string rotation
Assess risks of hole problems related to cuttings transport
Continuously measure wet cuttings weight & volume for environmental treatment
Example Installations
CLEAR: Applications
Well with complex geometries:
Extended-reach drilling
Horizontal
Multilaterals
High angles
Difficult hole cleaning conditions
Unstable wellbores
Cutting transport problems
Case study: Optimal ROP
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Comments: Maximize ROP to assure good hole cleaning and assess risk of hole problems related to cuttings transport.
Part 1: Critical ROP is around 6 m/h. Increase in ROP induces
reduction in cuttings flow.
Part 2: ROP under critical value, cuttings flow responds directly
with ROP variation. Increase in ROP means rise in cuttings
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Phase: 8 in Synchronize Data between ROP and Cutting Flow
Case study: Minimize Off-bottoms Time
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Wellbore Quality Services
FLAG
FLAG: Features and Benefits
Features
True and reliable flow rate measurement
Suitable for deepwater, HPHT, slimhole wells
Smart alarms corrected for heave, flowline effect, mud compressibility and reciprocation
User-friendly visual displays, alarms, and quality control
Benefits
Improve well safety
Reduce NPT
Lower environmental risk
Optimize drilling procedures
FLAG* Installation Features - Drillship
Sensor Protection
Strainer
Drain and
Forward Flushing
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Back Flushing point
Coriolis
Flow Meter
FLAG installation Examples
FLAG: Applications
Gain (kick) / loss detection
Mud pump efficiency
Well ballooning
Flow back fingerprinting
Cement job monitoring
FLAG service software
compensates for:
Heave
Surface line filling
Mud compressibility
Pipe movement
Pump stop/start
FLAG Case Study: Gain Detection Versus Flow Paddle
The differential flow out is much
more accurate than the standard
flow paddle.
FLAG Case Study: Gain Detection Versus Pit Volume
The differential flow out is
increasing 5 minutes before
active volume.
5 min x 35 gpm = 4.2 bbl
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FLAG Case Study: Influx Volume
Active pit volume
Cumulated volume
Flow in
Processed flow out
Mud flow back to the active pit makes
the influx volume quantification difficult
while the cumulated FLAG volume is very
accurate.
Wellbore Quality Services A Complete Solution
Pre-drill Model
Drilling Window Tracking
DrillCAST*
24 Hour Look-Ahead
FLAG
CLEAR
DrillMAP*
Well Drilling Plan
Drilling Analyst