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How to Drill Ultra Deepwater Wells


- Peter Aird, Providence Resources
Deepwater Drilling – Introduction
2017 Porcupine Basin Projects
Peter Aird. Msc, C.Eng, M.I.Mar.E.S.T.
1st December 2016
Deepwater Drilling – Outline & Introduction

2. Safe
1. Deepwater Deepwater 3. 2017 Project
Challenges Exploration Delivery
Drilling
Introduction to offshore well design
• Drilling Environment, HPHT, Deepwater
Type of well, • Oil or gas, injector, waste disposal,
Geothermal

Drilling,
• Well design
operating • Rig requirement
environment

• Mud, Cementing, fluids, bulk volumes,


Tools & storage
equipment • 3rd party operations needed
• People logistics

• Well control, stuck pipe,


• Fishing, side-track
Contingencies • Well control
• Well maintenance
1. Deepwater Challenges
2017 Porcupine Basin Deepwater Challenges
Deepwater Drilling Environments

Oil wells are drilled


Worldwide
Deepwater Operating Areas

Designated harsher Environment Areas


Deepwater Definitions

Ultra Deepwater? 14,000 ft / 4,267m


Sub-sea data
Metocean (current profiles,
studies temperature
gradients)

Meteorological Wind, waves, sea-


states currents,
data etc.

Seabed
Subsurface data topography
Bathymetry Shallow seismic

Stratigraphic, G&G
risk, pressure and
Seismic data temperature
profiles

Reservoir
depths, Well design
pressures concepts.
targets
Hazard, detection, prediction, prevention

Prediction, detection

Design strategies,

Operational techniques,

Contingency plans
Deepwater Subsurface Hazards?

Incompetent formations

Faulting and glide planes

Pressured flows

Hydrates

Small operating ‘presure’ margins


Deepwater well design, construction drivers
Long Heavy Big
Risers Loads Equipment

Expensive Trips
DEEP Extreme Remote
WATER Conditions
(10 - 12,000 ft.)
Reliability
(Effect on controls
and technology with
high hydrostatic loads)

Geology New Equipment


Tight Pore Pressure /
Fracture Gradient New Drilling
tolerances Processes
Shallow Water
Flows
 “Deep Drill”
Wells > 20,000 ft. TVD

Region/location factors: Well type: Work-scope:


Well deliverables: = Faster, cheaper, safer.
How to drill a deepwater well?
2. Safe Deepwater
Exploration
Pre-planning steps

Review seismic, offset wells,


logs, or other relevant data

Bid and be awarded drilling license,


concession etc.
•3-d seismic

Acquire more data •Site surveys


•Specialist studies
•Deploy Metocean systems

Estimate reserves, risks, •Reserves estimates?


•Select best prospects to drill
exploration uncertainties •Elect optimal project strategy
Seismic Exploration Cycle

Defines subsurface
structures where Drill
ACQUISITION hydrocarbons might be here
trapped

INTERPRETATION
PROCESSING
3D – reducing risks and uncertainties?
Improve
Portfolio risk
management

Focused acreage
capture

More aggressive
use of 3D and
evolving seismic
methods
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Deepwater Well Design Essentials
Deepwater Drilling Challenges

High rig rates, high cost of


failure, not getting required data
Rapidly
changing pore Unconventional
Vibration mitigation,
hole sizes
•especially reamed vertical holes pressure
require
• Contingency casing customized tool
Hole cleaning / Extreme Flow
Rates sizes

Shallow flows

Large holes to
TD Unconsolidated
Soft, tertiary inter-bedded
sediment formations
sediments –
• large tools with full LWD provides
FE capability
required best chance of
Glacial Till, Volcanics’, poor seismic resolution data acquisition
Pressure Management Essentials Pore & fracture pressure
management
Drilling Fluid selection
Drilling fluids are selected on the basis of one or more
of the following criteria:

• Cost
• Application and Performance
• Production Concerns
• Logistics
• Exploration Concerns
• Environmental Impact and Safety
Deepwater Management & Control?

Reduce Subsurface Fully understand


uncertainties pressure issues

QA/QC to assure
Assure value
equipment
adding data quality
reliability

Adopt optimal
project strategy
• ‘Best practices’ must
ensue
3. 2017
Deepwater
Projects
Porcupine Basin Druid / Drombeg Well.
2017 Project’s delivery

Effective Efficient Excellent

Do the right Do things right Deliver ‘best


things ‘i.e. first time’ in class’
Druid

Drombeg

Unique Deep Transitional Pressure Profile


Riserless drilling in 2,233m water depth
Drillship - Dual activity Drilling

Note: Application specific and does not fit all suits?


Phase 2; Subsea Drilling with SSBOP installed
Flexible joint
1
1. Diverter
Upper annular preventer (UA)
2. Spider / Gimbal
2
3. Riser Coupling
Lowere Marine Riser
4. Upper Flex Joint Package(LMRP) Connector
5. Telescopic Joint
6. Tensioning Ring 4 Lower annular preventer (LA)
7. Intermediate Flex Joint 5
8. Termination Joint 6 Upper choke
7 valves Blind shear ram (BS)
9. Riser Adapter
10. Single Flex Joint 8
11. BOP Connector Upper Pipe RAM (UPR)
12. Wellhead Connector 3
Lower Choke
13. Wellhead valves
Middle pipe ram (MPR)

9 Kilkl valves
10 Lower pipe ram (LPR)
11
13 12
Wellhead connector
Drilling’s rule No 1

No Well MAINTAIN (2) BARRIERS at all times


Control Issues

MAINTAIN THE WELLBORE full at all times

TRIP only when wellbore is safe to do so

IF SYSTEMS FAIL, double check & re-check everything


else
Drilling’s rule No 2

No INSPECT before accept


Failures

MEASURE, TALLY & DRIFT everything run into a well

MAINTAIN ALL TUBULAR STRINGS as simple as possible.

AVOID NON-PROVEN EQUIPMENT

AVOID EXCESSIVE LOADS, ABNOMAL PRESSURES ,


TEMPERATURES & UNTOWARD CONDITIONS
Drilling’s rule No 3

Prevent vs.
Cure 1. PLAN, PLAN, PLAN, is the most cost-effective task

2. UPFRONT LOADING will assure project delivery

3. ASSURE HIGH STANDARDS then follow instructions

4. CONTINGENT PLANS to assure minimal loss

5. MANAGE CHANGE when/as required


How to develop a top team?
Multi
disciplinary Old Culture New OPEN Culture
approach
• Hierarchies • Teams
• Boundaries • Connections
• Internal focus • External focus

Measureable Specialist
values teams • Smothering • Empowering
• Second guessing • Trusting
• Controlling • Supportive

• Analysis • Action
• Fear of mistakes • Calculated
risk-taking

Safety Continuous
Management Assessment
How to enable high value projects?
Assure best,
engineering.
tools,
equipment
and systems Report, and
Hire, resource processes investigate all loss,
& develop the applied then assure
skills needed throughout corrective actions

Upfront load, Develop best Controls to


clear work- practices at all delivery as
scope levels planned
definition,
aligned goals
and objectives
2017 Deepwater Drilling Project Summary

• 2017 Project’s will rely on:


Deliver as planned
• Experienced ‘Deepwater’ People
• Engineering & subsurface Management & Controls
excellence
• Employing ‘Deepwater’ best Best Practises
operating standards & practices
• Management controls in place Subsurface, & Engineering
excellence
• Delivering as planned
Knowledge & Experience
Questions via?
paird@providenceresources.com
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