INTRODUCTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY INTO TIMOR SEA OPERATIONS

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
D. Bond ◽  
N. Brock ◽  
G. Chapman ◽  
K. Lay ◽  
G. Wormald
Keyword(s):  
Production Technology ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Drilling Tools ◽  
Pdc Bit ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Measurement While Drilling ◽  
Production Success ◽  
Timor Sea ◽  
Evaluation Techniques

The Timor Sea is the most remote and under-explored oil province in Australia. In order to compensate for the high exploration costs which result in frontier areas, new technology has been introduced by BHP Petroleum in order to increase drilling efficiency, assist in well evaluation and enhance the reliability of production technology. Examples of innovation and the importation of advanced techniques into the Timor Sea region are discussed. Advanced mud systems and PDC bit designs have been developed to aid the drilling of wells. Measurement While Drilling tools and tritium tracers have been used to enhance correlation and evaluation techniques. Equipment and procedures which emphasise the philosophy of reliability and longevity have been developed for sub-sea completions. These innovations have not only assisted with cost reduction, but have also enhanced BHP Petroleum's exploration and production success in the Timor Sea.

Integrated Underreamer Technology with Real-Time Communication Helped Eliminate Rathole in Exploratory Operation Offshore Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael Chidiogo Ozioko ◽  
Humphrey Osita ◽  
Udochukwu Ohia
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Telemetry System ◽  
Operational Risks ◽  
Drilling Performance ◽  
Drilling Tools ◽  
Measurement While Drilling ◽  
Drilling Operations ◽  
Logging While Drilling ◽  
Fast Activation

Abstract This paper describes the successful deployment of integrated underreamer technology with real-time communication through mud-pulse telemetry system, to drill and eliminate rathole in 17 1/2-in × 20-in successfully in one run and helped set casing as close as possible to the depth of suspected pressure ramp on an exploratory well offshore Nigeria. This technology uses the same communication system (actuator bypass) as Measurement While Drilling tools (MWD), Logging While Drilling tools (LWD) and Rotary Steerable System (RSS). Integrated underreamers broadly used in the drilling operations support optimized casing and completion programs and helps reduce operational risks such as wellbore instability. The ball drop and hydraulically activated reamer technologies available today comes with limitations and HSE risks. The distinctive functionalities of the integrated underreamer technology described here, such as unlimited and fast activation and deactivation via downlinking and real time downhole feedback, reduce uncertainties and operational costs in the complex and challenging deep offshore drilling operations. The real-time communication through mud-pulse telemetry system enabled the placement of integrated underreamer 6 meters from the bit thereby reducing rathole length to approximately 9 meters compared to 80 meters for conventional underreamer application. The integrated underreamer is compatible with existing RSS and provide unlimited activation cycles. The integrated underreamer offers flexibility in placement in the bottom hole assembly (BHA) and it can be used as a near bit reamer, or as main reamer or as both. In this case, the integrated near bit underreamer eliminated the need for a dedicated rathole removal run. It also offered a feedback confirmation of the cutter blades activation status and provided hole opening log thereby reducing the operational uncertainties for the under reaming, saving rig time up to 16 hours for shoulder test. The underreamer was successfully deployed to drill and ream the challenging 14 ¾" × 17 ½" and ream 17 ½" × 20" section offshore Nigeria. Both sections were drilled and reamed to section Total Depth (TD) in one run with all directional reuirements and Measuring While Drilling (MWD)/Logging While Drilling (LWD) met saving client approximately 4 days of rig spread cost. The reamer appeared to provide an in-gauge borehole allowing for successful running and cementing of liners without any issues, demonstrating superior borehole quality. The new Technology proved to be a reliable and flexible hole enlargement while drilling solution that help to improve drilling performance, reduce operational risks and save cost.

scholarly journals Beyond “Industry 4.0”

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e021009
Author(s):  
Florian Butollo ◽  
Lea Schneidemesser
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Production Technology ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Competitive Pressure ◽  
Manufacturing Networks ◽  
The One ◽  
Flexible Specialisation

The “Industry 4.0” paradigm is present in the strategy of governments, employers' associations and trade union federations. Revisiting Piore and Sabel's classic study on flexible specialisation, we criticise the one-sidedness and narrowness inherent in the discourse of Industry 4.0, to which we counter empirical analyses on decentralised factory networks. Contrary to the prevailing stylised account, flexibility is facilitated by “B2B” platforms that link manufacturers and customers – a model that relies more on the versatility of decentralised manufacturing networks than on sophisticated production technology. The effects on labour are ambivalent, as they involve both potential for a small-scale, skilled-labour-intensive manufacturing paradigm, and dangers arising from competitive pressure for cost reduction. In sum, our aim is to offer theoretical and empirical evidence for understanding changes in digitised manufacturing and to highlight the approach of “B2B” networks and platforms in the debate on the transformation of manufacturing and industrial work.

scholarly journals A REVIEW OF NANOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
B.M. Das ◽  
D. Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Drilling Fluids ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Exploration Drilling

Nanotechnology encompasses the science and technology of objects with sizes ranging from 1 nm to 100 nm. Today, exploration and production from conventional oil and gas wells have reached a stage of depletion. Newer technologies have been developed to address this problem. Maximum oil production at a minimum cost is currently a huge challenge. This paper reviews nanotechnology applications in the oil and gas production sector, including in the fields of exploration, drilling, production, and waste management in oil fields, as well as their environmental concerns. The paper reviews experimental observations carried out by various researchers in these fields. The effect of various nanoparticles, such as titanium oxide, magnesium oxide, zinc oxide, copper oxide, and carbon nanotubes in drilling fluids and silica nanoparticles in enhanced oil recovery, has been observed and studied. This paper gives a detailed review of the benefits of nanotechnology in oil exploration and production. The fusion of nanotechnology and petroleum technology can result in great benefits. The physics and chemistry of nanoparticles and nanostructures are very new to petroleum technology. Due to the greater risk associated with adapting new technology, nanotechnology has been slow to gain widespread acceptance in the oil and gas industries. However, the current economic conditions have become a driving force for newer technologies.

scholarly journals Moisture-Resistant Sealing Materials for Downhole HPHT Electrical Feedthrough Package

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
Hua Xia ◽  
Nelson Settles ◽  
David DeWire
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Water Immersion ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Covalent Bond ◽  
Phase Structures ◽  
Sealing Material ◽  
Drilling Tools ◽  
Measurement While Drilling ◽  
Sealing Materials ◽  
Moisture Resistant

Abstract A bismuth oxide–based multicomponent glass system, xH3BO3-yBi2O3-(1-x-y-δ)MO-δ· rare earth oxides (REOs) with MO = TiO2, BaO, ZnO, Fe2O3, etc., and lanthanum series–based REOs, for making downhole high-pressure and high-temperature electrical feedthrough package has been developed using high-temperature melt-quenching and sintering technologies. By properly controlling phase structures in material-manufacturing processes, the obtained sealing materials have shown moisture-resistant properties in their monoclinic and tetragonal mixed phase structures but strongly hydrophobic properties in their covalent bond tetragonal phase. Sealed electrical feedthrough packages have been evaluated under boiling water immersion and 200°C/30,000 PSI water-fluid–simulated downhole harsh environments. The post electrical insulation measurement has demonstrated to be greater than 1.0 × 1014 Ω electrical resistance. This article will show that such a high–bonding strength and high–insulation strength sealing material could be used to seal electrical feed-throughs and connectors for 300°C/30,000 PSI downhole and subsea wireline, logging while drilling, and measurement while drilling tools' signal, data, and electrical power transmissions.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW 2000

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
S.J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
North West ◽  
Natural Gas Pipelines ◽  
The North ◽  
Timor Sea ◽  
Epbc Act

Last year the petroleum industry witnessed the enactment of new legislation both at Commonwealth and State levels. The principal legislative change to environmental management was the introduction of the Commonwealth Government’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act, 2000 (EPBC Act). South Australia and Victoria also implemented new Petroleum Acts and/ or Regulations.Construction of the Eastern Gas Pipeline was also completed last year, whilst preliminary approvals and environmental assessment continues for the Papua New Guinea, Timor Sea and Tasmania Natural Gas pipelines. Offshore exploration continued, particularly in the North West Shelf, Otway Basin, Timor Sea and Bass Strait.Other critical areas of environmental management included greenhouse gases, national pollution inventory reporting and the increasing requirements for environmental approval and management under various state environmental legislation.This paper provides an overview of environmental developments in the petroleum industry during the year 2000, in particular, the implication of new legislation, new technology, e-commerce and a greater focus on environmental reporting.

UCS Neural Network Model for Real Time Sand Prediction

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gbenga Folorunso Oluyemi ◽  
Babs Mufutau Oyeneyin ◽  
Chris Macleod
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Sand Control ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Measurement While Drilling ◽  
Textural Data ◽  
Potential Evaluation ◽  
Thick Overburden

Exploration and production activities have moved into more challenging deep-water and subsea environments. Many of the clastic reservoirs in these environments are characterized by thick overburden, HP-HT and largely unconsolidated formations with challenging sand management issues. For effective overall field/reservoir management, it is crucial to know if and when sand would fail and be ultimately produced. Field-life sanding potential evaluation and analysis, which seeks to evaluate the sanding potential of reservoir formations during the appraisal stage and all through the development to the abandonment stage, is therefore necessary so that important reservoir/field management decisions regarding sand control deployment can be made. Recent work has identified Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) as a key parameter required for the evaluation and analysis of sanding potential of any reservoir formation. There is therefore the need to be able to predict this important sanding potential parameter accurately and in real time to reduce the level of uncertainties usually associated with sanding potential evaluation and analysis. In this work, neural network coded in C++ was trained with log-derived petrophysical, geomechanical and textural data to develop a stand-alone model for predicting UCS. Real-time functionality of this model is guaranteed by real time data gathering via logging while drilling (LWD) and other measurement while drilling (MWD) tools. The choice of neural network over and above other methods and techniques which have been widely used in the industry was informed by its ability to better resolve the widely known complex relationship between petrophysical, textural and geomechanical strength parameters.

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