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BP in the U.K. North Sea attempted to drill a horizontal oil producer in the Harding field in 2006. Designed to produce an initial 10,000 blpd from 2000 feet of reservoir section before water break through, the well was compromised by the collapse of the lower hole due to chronic shale instability. This also resulted in the pre-drilled liner being stuck and set higher than initially planned. With less than 200 feet of reservoir sand exposed at the heel of the well (in close proximity to the water leg), the initial expectations were of 4,000 blpd. However the well was found to be badly impaired and produced 400 blpd. Although the well had been displaced to a carbonate based low solids oil based mud (LSOBM) prior to completion, a significant quantity of the barite weighted drilling system was still in the well. The damaging mechanism was determined to be synthetic oil based mud compressed around the screen completion as well as the mud from the uncompleted horizontal lower hole being squeezed into the screens as the open hole gradually collapsed with time. A Coiled tubing (CT) intervention was carried out in late 2006 with solvents and multiple attempts with an acidic nano wash solvent system, this was not successful in restoring well productivity. In 2007 BP chose to use an advanced chelate based barite/carbonate dissolver system behind a proprietary pre-flush system in an attempt to recover well productivity. Four operations have now been performed since September 2007 without CT, all as simple bull head operations. As a result of these treatments the well productivity (PI) has increased from 1.5 up to 12 blpd/psi. Current well rates are between 4000 to 6000 blpd depending on well stability and slugging caused by increasing water cuts. |
