AAPG E-Symposium Series
Complex Well Guidance for G&G Asset
Team Professionals
January 28, 2010
Full 5-Day
Course Overview: http://www.zenzebra.net/complexwell/knoll-course-description.pdf
Sign up for the
5-day course: http://www.aapg.org/education/shortcourse/details.cfm?ID=181
(Special Pricing:
please note that the member price of $1,595 is roughly half the typical
price of this training!)
Bob
Knoll
bobknoll@shaw.ca
Recording of the one-hour
webinar part of the e-symposium:
The link is:
It will ask for a password, which is:
The Complex Well
Guidance PowerPoint (saved as pdf)
http://www.zenzebra.net/complexwell/horizontal-drilling-knoll.pdf
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Questions
for
CEU
Credit:
Please write a brief (one paragraph) response to
the questions and email them to educate@aapg.org
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1.
What are three major differences between a vertical well and a
horizontal well?
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2.
What is geosteering? What are the key elements in
geosteering? What kinds of information are needed for effective
geosteering?
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3.
Discuss the elements that can create complications for the geosteering
team.
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4.
List two places where horizontal drilling has been used effectively to
drill and produce a reservoir that could not be effectively exploited
via vertical holes.
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READINGS
Basic Information
Horizontal Wells
Help Recovery Rates. PTTC workshops summary.
http://www.pttc.org/workshop_summaries/20.pdf
Horizontal Well
Drilling. http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/FTPROOT/petroleum/tr0565.pdf
Published in
1993, but still a good, basic resource.
Horizonal
Drilling. Diagrams and basic details. http://www.geology.wisc.edu/courses/g115/oil/4.html
Multilateral
Completions: http://www.iadc.org/dcpi/dc-novdec99/n-multilaterals.pdf
White
Papers on Current Challenges and Solutions
New Methods
Boost Multistage Fracturing in Horizontals (registration
required: registration is free)
http://www.halliburton.com/public/tttcp/contents/Papers_and_Articles/web/MultiStageFracturing_JPT0707_%20TechUpdate.pdf
Schlumberger
Technical Paper: Geomechanics Enables the Success of Horizontal Well
Drilling in Libya: A Case Study
http://www.slb.com/content/services/resources/technicalpapers/spe/111384.asp
GeoSteering White Papers
SPE 121186 - Case History: A Robust
Point-the-Bit Rotary Steerable System with At-Bit Imaging
and 3D Geosteering Service Integral to Optimal Wellbore Placement in a
Complex Thin Sand Reservoir
(registration
required: registration is free)
http://www.halliburton.com/customer/tech_papers/source_files/Sperry/H07091-SPE%20121186.pdf
Multilateral
Wells in the Castilla Field of Eastern Colombia: A Case History of the
Guadalupe Reservoir
(registration
required: registration is free)
http://www.halliburton.com/customer/tech_papers/source_files/Sperry/H06854_SPE%20119458.pdf
Geosteering for
Maximum Contact in Thin-Layer Well Placement
(registration
required: registration is free)
http://www.halliburton.com/customer/tech_papers/source_files/Sperry/H06849_SPE%20120551.pdf
Additional
Articles
Article on
Complex Well Guidance by Bob Knoll
http://www.zenzebra.net/complexwell/MPD-Knoll-Article-0806.pdf
Case
study: Southern Alberta
http://www.zenzebra.net/complexwell/SAGD-drilling-engineering-challenges.pdf
The Little Oil
Patch That Could
http://www.zenzebra.net/complexwell/WCB-Th-
Littl- Oil Patch-That-Could-With-Figures.pdf