Alternatives to 25% Chrome for Water-Injection Tubing in Deep Water

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aine Maeve Fitzgerald ◽  
Stephen Groves ◽  
Stuart Gosch ◽  
Stephen C. Morey ◽  
David Pattillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Water Injection

Optimizing Field Development in South Sultanate of Oman Through Deep Water Disposal Dwd Reclassification

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Al Jumah ◽  
Abdulkareem Hindawi ◽  
Fakhriya Shuaibi ◽  
Jasbindra Singh ◽  
Mohamed Siyabi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Pressure Support ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Reed Beds ◽  
Field Development ◽  
Palm Trees ◽  
Water Disposal

Abstract The South Oman clusters A and B have reclassified their Deep-Water Disposal wells (DWD) into water injection (WI) wells. This is a novel concept where the excess treated water will be used in the plantation of additional reed beds (Cluster A) and the farming of palm trees (Cluster B), as well as act as pressure support for nearby fields. This will help solve multiple issues at different levels namely helping the business achieve its objective of sustained oil production, helping local communities with employment and helping the organization care for the environment by reducing carbon footprints. This reclassification covers a huge water volume in Field-A and Field-B where 60,000 m3/day and 40,000 m3/day will be injected respectively in the aquifer. The remaining total excess volume of approx. 200,000m3/d will be used for reed beds and Million Date Palm trees Project. The approach followed for the reclassification and routing of water will: Safeguard the field value (oil reserves) by optimum water injectionMaintain the cap-rock integrity by reduced water injection into the aquifer.Reduce GHG intensity by ±50% as a result of (i) reduced power consumption to run the DWD pumps and (ii) the plantation of trees (reed beds and palm trees).Generate ICV (in-country value) opportunities in the area of operations for the local community to use the excess water at surface for various projects.Figure 1DWD Reclassification benefits Multiple teams (subsurface. Surface, operations), interfaces and systems have been associated to reflect the re-classification project. This was done through collaboration of different teams and sections (i.e. EC, EDM, SAP, Nibras, OFM, etc). Water injection targets and several KPIs have been incorporated in various dashboards for monitoring and compliance purposes. Figure 2Teams Integration and interfaces It offers not only a significant boost to the sustainability of the business, but also pursues PDO's Water Management Strategy to reduce Disposal to Zero by no later than the year 2030 This paper will discuss how the project was managed, explain the evaluation done to understand the extent of the pressure support in nearby fields from DWD and the required disposal rate to maintain the desired pressures. Hence, reclassifying that part of deep-water disposal volume to water injection (WI) which requires a totally different water flood management system to be built around it.

Assessment of Injection Pressure Margin in Deep Water Injection Well Design

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky B. Poon ◽  
Ebimobowei K. Wodu ◽  
Abraham O. Ekebafe ◽  
Edgar Mba Ognane ◽  
Osazua J. Itua ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Injection Pressure ◽  
Injection Well ◽  
Well Design

Frequent 4D monitoring with DAS 3D VSP in deep water to reveal injected water-sweep dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 471-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Kiyashchenko ◽  
Albena Mateeva ◽  
Yuting Duan ◽  
Duane Johnson ◽  
Jonathan Pugh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Reservoir Model ◽  
Seismic Profiles ◽  
Vertical Seismic Profiles ◽  
Distributed Acoustic Sensing ◽  
The Impact

Time-lapse monitoring using 3D distributed acoustic sensing vertical seismic profiles (DAS VSPs) is rapidly maturing as a nonintrusive low-cost solution for target-oriented monitoring in deep water. In a Gulf of Mexico field, DAS fibers deployed in active wells enable detailed tracking of the water flood in two deep reservoirs. Multiple tests in adverse well conditions let us understand the impact of source size and other factors on the spatially dependent quality of time-lapse DAS data and prove that excellent image repeatability is achievable under typical field conditions. Frequent repeat surveys allowed us to predict the timing of water arrival in a producer and to observe new water injection patterns that are important for understanding water-flood performance. Going forward, DAS 4D monitoring is envisioned as a tool that can assist with proactive wells and reservoir management, new well planning, and reservoir model updates.

Unique Screen and Sleeve Design Allows Selective High Rate Water Injection in Deep Water Horizontal Open Hole Completion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Johnson ◽  
Mark Williams ◽  
Elezuo Kalu ◽  
Jon-Howard Hanson ◽  
Ryan Novelen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Open Hole

Eliminating the Poroelastic Problems Associated with Water Injection in the Kikeh Deep Water Development

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Webb ◽  
Norjusni F. Omar ◽  
Saifon Daungkaew ◽  
Lee Chin Lim ◽  
Raymond J. Tibbles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Water Development

The Huntington Field, Block 22/14a, UK North Sea

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 479-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew G. Couch ◽  
Samantha Eatwell ◽  
Olu Daini
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Pressure Support ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Production Wells ◽  
Regional Basis ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe Huntington Oil Field is located in Block 22/14b in the Central Graben of the UK Continental Shelf. The reservoir is the Forties Sandstone Member of the Sele Formation, and oil production is from four production wells supported by two water-injection wells, tied back to the Sevan Voyageur FPSO (floating production storage and offloading unit). Initial estimates of oil-in-place were c. 70 MMbbl and the recovery factor at the end of 2017 after 4.5 years of production was 28%, which reflects the weak aquifer and poor pressure support from water injection. The Huntington reservoir is part of a lobate sheet sand system, where low-concentration turbidite sands and linked debrites are preserved between thin mudstones of regional extent. Within the reservoir, three of the thicker mudstone beds can be correlated biostratigraphically on a regional basis. This stacked lobate part of the system sits above a large-scale deep-water Forties channel that is backfilled by a system of vertically aggrading channel storeys. Despite the relatively high net/gross of the reservoir, the thin but laterally extensive mudstones in the upper (lobate) part of the system are effective aquitards and barriers to pressure support from water.

Using New Intervention-less Surveillance Technology to Optimize the Implementation of Waterflood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Al Anbari ◽  
Mahmood Al Harthi ◽  
Suryyendu Choudhury ◽  
Evert-Jan Borkent ◽  
Petrus In ‘T Panhuis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Pressure Support ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Early Assessment ◽  
Reservoir Performance ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Sensing Technology

Abstract The value of implementing intervention-less downhole surveillance technology lies in early assessment of field-scale reservoir performance and well deliverability in South Oman's largest waterflood development. Such technology can aid in assessing whether aquifer support by means of (controlled) fracture injection is achievable, which is potentially more valuable than matrix injection to enhance oil production. At the same time HSSE exposure and deferment will be reduced by avoiding well interventions. This paper will share learnings from Distributed Fiber-Optic (FO) Sensing technology. More specifically, this paper will present the case study of field ‘A’, where waterflood is being operated in two methods based on sectors depending on field geological and reservoir properties: ‘Deep’ water injection in the aquifer, under fracture conditions ‘Shallow’ water injection close to the oil-water-contact (OWC), under matrix conditions ‘Deep’ water injection minimizes the risk of early water breakthrough, but it delays the aquifer pressure support which in turn means lower offtake. The ‘Shallow’ water injection (trialed by injecting water 50m below OWC) has a higher risk of water short circuiting, accelerates pressure support and thereby enhances production / well deliverability. Fiber-optic data is part of a decision-based surveillance program, which also included injection / production logging via PLT, step-rate tests, and pressure monitoring. The time-lapse data has illustrated some fracture growth up- and downwards of the perforation interval in most wells but is still contained below the OWC. In some wells, the injection growth is also controlled by the presence of several intra-reservoir shale baffles that are acting as barriers to vertical communication and thereby delaying the injection response while inducing a strong pressure response in nearby producers. The data has helped to further calibrate and validate the model assumptions and will help in optimizing the waterflood development concept for the field. Proactive interventional-less surveillance enables monitoring of the zonal injection conformance, provides advantage of learning reservoir performance and supports agile WRFM operations and decision making. Furthermore, cost competitive and credible technology have made PDO a front runner to keep subsurface risk at as low as reasonably practical levels and boost oil production. This distributed fiber optic sensing technology provided cost-effective, fit-for-purpose, and intervention-less well-and-reservoir surveillance.

Benthic foraminiferal zonation in deep-water carbonate platform margin environments, northern Little Bahama Bank

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Benthic Foraminifera ◽  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
Sedimentary Facies ◽  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Sediment Gravity Flows ◽  
Gravity Flows ◽  
Platform Margin ◽  
Water Carbonate

The utility of benthic foraminifera in bathymetric interpretation of clastic depositional environments is well established. In contrast, bathymetric distribution of benthic foraminifera in deep-water carbonate environments has been largely neglected. Approximately 260 species and morphotypes of benthic foraminifera were identified from 12 piston core tops and grab samples collected along two traverses 25 km apart across the northern windward margin of Little Bahama Bank at depths of 275-1,135 m. Certain species and operational taxonomic groups of benthic foraminifera correspond to major near-surface sedimentary facies of the windward margin of Little Bahama Bank and serve as reliable depth indicators. Globocassidulina subglobosa, Cibicides rugosus, and Cibicides wuellerstorfi are all reliable depth indicators, being most abundant at depths >1,000 m, and are found in lower slope periplatform aprons, which are primarily comprised of sediment gravity flows. Reef-dwelling peneroplids and soritids (suborder Miliolina) and rotaliines (suborder Rotaliina) are most abundant at depths <300 m, reflecting downslope bottom transport in proximity to bank-margin reefs. Small miliolines, rosalinids, and discorbids are abundant in periplatform ooze at depths <300 m and are winnowed from the carbonate platform. Increased variation in assemblage diversity below 900 m reflects mixing of shallow- and deep-water species by sediment gravity flows.

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