Note: The present document is original wrote and design by Luis Alberto Diaz Martinez (SPE 3586315) and

will presented as draft of the SPE during " New Advances in Integrated Reservoir Surveillance, 24-29 June, La Jolla California, USA.

Patterns Octopus or Well Interception as a Model for Development of New and Depleted Reservoirs in Areas Environmentally Sensitive and as Model to Improve the Final Recovery.
by Luis Alberto Daz, Dubai, 2012-03-19

Since the development of horizontal drilling and multi re-entry techniques combined with the well interception for well control, a new pattern or model for development of reservoirs is presented when the conditions of the surface and underground are critical due to many factors. The impact of such model allows maximization of the recovery of hydrocarbons, reducing the impact of the land utilization. Due to the centralization of production into one well by reducing the impact of the flow-lines in oil and gas processing, lifting system and power consumption. Equally, impact into the field management and final cost. This new pattern consist of one central well called the central or main well, a producer, with several vertical wells drilled around it with horizontal ends which have been drilled against to the main producer or central well, connecting the pay zone to the central well. These leg or multiple legs can be drilled and cased or open hole completed (see figure). The vertical part of the externals wells can be abandon and plug leaving the legs connected into the central well as octopus style. With all this in mind the main concept could be the development of several spots (with multi horizontals wells). Such technique could be extended to wells already drilled or depleted and old wells can be reentered and a new pattern can be built underground reducing the well space in surface and achieve an increase of the final recovery and reducing the land utilization. The surface pattern could be modified from the total wells approached to the central well and a multi-central well with multiples legs can be the finished. This action will reduce the well pattern to one well, maybe more or keeping some wells as reservoir monitors or used the verticals to water injector or any other technique of Enhanced Recovery System (EOR). The legs can be stimulated by fracced or filled by gravel to be used as channels with wider effect that improve the present recovery. Combining water injection or gas re-injection of gas and CO2 can be highly effective due that wells can be combined to inflow into the closed wells to drain more and increasing the final recovery. The author presented this idea in 2004-5 as a proposed method to reduce the well impact in the steppe area. An environmentally sensible area close to Caspian Sea by Maersk, but the project was never implemented. The secondary goal was increase the recovery factor due to tight sands as well as reducing the excessive and expensive lifting system maintenance and control.

Luis Alberto Diaz Martinez

Professional Petroleum Engineer with close to 35 years in the oil (1978) and gas industry. Multitasking oilfield geo-engineer, with 20 years in drilling, work-over and completion operations as well as more than 15 years as a Senior Drilling Engineer and Manager, 12 years working in Russia and CIS countries especially in the Kazakhstan basins. Working with several companies such as Texaco, Hemco, Maersk Oil, Vitol-Arawak, Condor Petroleum, Sedona Oil and Gas, Aladdin Oil and Gas and most recently with TCM-Offshore. An university professor (UIS- Colombia) of BS degree for geologists and petroleum engineers. Recognized experience in drilling design and completions operations of slant and horizontal wells as well as extended to work-over and production management. Senior design in complicated completions including fracturing and deployment of multiple well completions HPHT.

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Main Producer Well Water Injector Pilot

2500m Horizontal well Fractured P-2

Horizontal Producer Downhole well - 1500 m

Frac Orientation

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Storage well S-1-Producer 1500m Horizontal well Fractured P-3

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13 3/8" Liner-Casing Horizontal Well Multifrac Stimulated Downhole Producer Plug and Abandon Surface Equipment and Casing Recovered

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1000-1500 m Storage well- Large Bore

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Horizontal Producer Propped Frac Stimulated to Aptian A 9 5/8 Casing at XX0 m

3 1/2 x 4 1/2 Tubing with ESP 562 Series 15000 BPD capacity 7" Liner b/w X00 m to XX00 m

7" Liner b/w X00 m to XX00 m

ESP Pumps

20" casing at XX00 m

Gas Free
Formation Pay Zone 40- 50 m thick

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Liner, 5" Slotted or cemented

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