Multilateral wells reduce CAPEX of offshore, subsea development in Australia's Northwest Shelf

SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 636-646

  Lawrence, Brett ^a   Zimmerman, Mike ^b   Cuthbert, Andy ^b   Fipke, Steven ^b  

^a Apache Energy Ltd   (Australia)

^b HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CAPITAL INVESTMENT; COST SAVING; DUAL-LATERAL WELL; HOLE DRILLING; INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY; INVESTMENT CAPITAL; LESSONS LEARNED; LEVEL 5; MECHANICAL ISOLATION; MULTILATERAL JUNCTIONS; MULTILATERAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTILATERAL WELLS; NON-PRODUCTIVE TIME; NORTH SEA; OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENTS; PRODUCTION WELLS; PROJECT EXECUTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBSEA INSTALLATIONS; SUBSEA WELLHEAD; TRACK RECORD; WELL BORE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BOREHOLES; COST REDUCTION; HORIZONTAL WELLS; INVESTMENTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; TECHNOLOGY; WELLS;

WELL DRILLING;

EID: 77954191454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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