Testing oilfield technologies for wellsite operations

Oilfield Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 58-67

  Arena, Michele ^a   Dyer, Stephen ^a   Bernard, Larry J ^a   Harrison, Allen ^a   Luckett, Walter ^a   Rebler, Thomas ^a   Srinivasan, Sundaram ^a   Borland, Brett ^b   Watts, Rick ^b   Lesso, Bill ^a   Warren, Tommy M ^c  

^a ConocoPhillips ^*

^b Tesco Corporation ^*  (United States)

^c Tesco Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST SAVINGS; QUALIFICATION TESTING; SYSTEM INTEGRATION TESTING (SIT); WELLSITE OPERATIONS;

COSTS; MACHINE TOOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

OIL WELLS;

EID: 33645665214     PISSN: 09231730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. Schlumberger test centers include, among others, the Abingdon Technology Center, England; Beijing Geoscience Center, China; Cameron Texas Facility, Texas; Gatwick Technology Center, England; Integrated Productivity & Conveyance Center, Singapore; Oslo Technology Center, Norway; Princeton Technology Center, New Jersey; Schlumberger Conveyance and Delivery Center, Sugar Land, Texas; Schlumberger European Learning Center, Melun, France; Schlumberger Kabushiki Kaisha, Fuchinobe, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan; Schlumberger Reservoir Completions Technology Center, Rosharon, Texas; Schlumberger Reservoir Fluids Center, Edmonton, Canada; Schlumberger Riboud Product Center, Clamart, France; Schlumberger Stonehouse Technology Center, Gloucestershire, England; and Sugar Land Technology Center, Texas. For additional information on other test facilities: Lang K: "Oilfield Testing Centers: Nurseries for New Ideas," Petroleum Technology Transfer Council Newsletter 9, no. 4 (2003): 6-9.
2. At Schlumberger, quality and safety assurance are based on industry standards such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 certification for engineering and manufacturing, Det Norske Veritas (DNV) certification, International Air Transport Association (IATA) qualification for transportation of explosives and batteries, third-party safety audits, American Petroleum Institute (API) recommended practices for industry standards in hardware tests, NACE International and American Society of Mechanical Engineers standards for completion equipment, and rigorous quality control both on site and off site.
3. Adolph B, Stoller C, Archer M, Codazzi D, El-Halawani T, Perciot P, Weller G, Evans M, Grant BJ, Griffiths R, Hartman D, Sirkin G, Ichikawa M, Scott G, Tribe I and White D: "No More Waiting: Formation Evaluation While Drilling," Oilfield Review 17, no. 3 (Autumn 2005): 4-21.
4. Edment B, Elliott F, Gilchrist J, Powers B, Jansen R, McPike T, Onwusiri H, Parlar M, Twynam A and van Kranenburg A: "Improvements in Horizontal Gravel Packing," Oilfield Review 17, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 50-60.
5. The customized changes to the completion assembly included a proprietary seal system, allowing bypass of multiple control lines and multiple-choke- position flow-control valves that are set hydraulically. The gravel-packer circulating housing allowed slurry to be pumped into the annulus between the screen and the casing. It has a sleeve designed to close when the gravel-pack pumping operation is completed.
6. The customized gravel-pack system features a single-trip service tool that provides a mechanism for packer setting and testing, fluid circulation and gravel-pack (GP) operation in a highly deviated wellbore. The GP circulating housing is specially modified to accommodate the inner completion string without the risk of opening the port sleeve.
7. Aldred W, Belaskie J, Isangulov R, Crockett B, Edmondson S, Florence F and Srinivasan S: "Changing the Way We Drill," Oilfield Review 17, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 42-49.
8. Fontenot KR, Lesso B, Strickler RD and Warren TM: "Using Casing to Drill Directional Wells," Oilfield Review 17, no. 2 (Summer2005): 44-61.
9. A retrievable system for drilling with casing is required for directional wells because of the need to recover expensive directional drilling and guidance equipment, to replace failed equipment before reaching casing point, and to quickly and cost-effectively access formations below a casing shoe. A wireline retrievable directional-drilling assembly, positioned in the lower end of the casing, replaces the directional tools used in a conventional bottomhole assembly. For more on retrievable tools for drilling with casing operations: Tessari R, Warren T and Houtchens B: "Retrievable Tools Provide Flexibility for Casing Drilling," presented at the World Oil 2003 Casing Drilling Technical Conference, Houston, March 6-7, 2003.
10. Borland B, Watts R, Warren T and Lesso B: "Drilling High Angle Casing Directionally Drilled Wells with Fit-for-Purpose String Sizes," paper IADC/SPE 99248, presented at the IADC/ SPE Drilling Conference, Miami, Florida, USA, February 21-23, 2006.
11. Copercini P, Soliman F, Gamal ME, Longstreet W, Rodd J, Sarssam M, McCourt I, Persad B and Williams M: "Powering Up to Drill Down," Oilfield Review 16, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 4-9.