Experience from Drilling a Horizontal Well in a Naturally Fractured and Karstified Carbonate Reservoir in the Barents Sea Using a CML MPD System

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geir Ivan Tangen ◽  
Geir Smaaskjaer ◽  
Einar Bergseth ◽  
Andy Clark ◽  
Børre Fossli ◽  
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2021 ◽  
pp. petgeo2020-042
Author(s):  
D. Egya ◽  
P. W. M. Corbett ◽  
S. Geiger ◽  
J. P. Norgard ◽  
S. Hegndal-Andersen

This paper successfully applied the geoengineering workflow for integrated well-test analysis to characterise fluid flow in a newly discovered fractured reservoir in the Barents Sea. A reservoir model containing fractures and matrix was built and calibrated using this workflow to match complex pressure transients measured in the field. We outline different geological scenarios that could potentially reproduce the pressure response observed in the field, highlighting the challenge of non-uniqueness when analysing well-test data. However, integrating other field data into the analysis allowed us to narrow the range of uncertainty, enabling the most plausible geological scenario to be taken forward for more detailed reservoir characterisation and history matching. The results provide new insights into the reservoir geology and the key flow processes that generate the pressure response observed in the field. This paper demonstrates that the geoengineering workflow used here can be applied to better characterise naturally fractured reservoirs. We also provide reference solutions for interpreting well-tests in fractured reservoirs where troughs in the pressure derivative are recognisable in the data.


Author(s):  
Valeriy G. Yakubenko ◽  
Anna L. Chultsova

Identification of water masses in areas with complex water dynamics is a complex task, which is usually solved by the method of expert assessments. In this paper, it is proposed to use a formal procedure based on the application of the method of optimal multiparametric analysis (OMP analysis). The data of field measurements obtained in the 68th cruise of the R/V “Academician Mstislav Keldysh” in the summer of 2017 in the Barents Sea on the distribution of temperature, salinity, oxygen, silicates, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration are used as a data for research. A comparison of the results with data on the distribution of water masses in literature based on expert assessments (Oziel et al., 2017), allows us to conclude about their close structural similarity. Some differences are related to spatial and temporal shifts of measurements. This indicates the feasibility of using the OMP analysis technique in oceanological studies to obtain quantitative data on the spatial distribution of different water masses.


1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Midttun

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Barrett ◽  
Vidar Bakken ◽  
Juri V. Krasnov

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