Production Technology

Sand Control Method

From the core analysis information from the Final Well Report of Well 1, the formation is

considered as unconsolidated sands. Therefore, a sand production might occur later in

production. Several methods have been identified to control and remove sand production

are by stand-alone sand screen, installing gravel pack or slotted liner.

Gravel packing will not be considered as one of this field’s sand control. This is because

gravel pack is more difficult to operate, time consuming and expensive in deviated wells

which increases cost of installation phase. Furthermore, gravel pack requires a large

wellbore diameter to achieved required through bore which significantly requires larger

size casing in upper section.

Table _ shows the active sand control methods that shall be implemented in Tatusan field

which are:

 Wire Wrapped Screen

 Pre-Packed Screen

 Wire Wrapped Screen

 Aspect Wire Wrapped Pre-Packed Slotted Liner (Mild

Screen (Stainless Screen (Resin Steel)

Steel) Coated Sand)

Description Wire welded to Gravel sandwiched Rectilinear slots/

longitudinal rods between two wire machined in pipe

wrapped screens

Concept Formation sand Gravel provide Wellbore

exclusion or gravel sand exclusion reinforcement, sand

retention bridges around

slots

Material Stainless steel on Stainless steel on Mild steel

mild steel base mild steel base pipe

pipe

Sand Exclusion Better than slotted Excellent: as with Poor: 0.012” slot

liner since slot gravel pack width minimum

width 0.006”-

0.040”

Works with gravel Yes Yes, but should not Yes

pack be necessary
Flow Restriction Low, = 10 times High, as for wire High

flow area of slotted wrapped screen

liner

Mechanical Poor to collapse/ Fair: base pipe Good

resistance tension if base pipe reinforces structure

omitted. Also

susceptible to

erosion

Plugging tendency Moderate High: Fine+ mud Low (Too wide to

cake. Also retain to formation

impairment while sand)

RIH

Cost 2-3 x slotted liner 2-3 x wire wrapped Cheapest

screen, but often

less than gravel

pack

Application High Productivity Retains sand grains Borehole

wells medium of all sizes reinforcement

grained formation. coarse grained

Allows fines formation

production
 Based on characteristic in Table_, the best option to be installed is the slotted liner.

This is due to cost effective, more productive and operationally more efficient. There are

several types of slotted liner inside the productive interval. High percentage of particle is

expected and the optimum screening opening size is approximately around 120-150

microns range base on the particle size from 42 cores tested. The proposed sand screens

for Tatusan are:

 Compound Grading Sand Control Screen (CGS) on Liner

 Continuous Wire Wrapped Sand Control (CWWS)

 Spiral Welded Liner (SWL)

Nodal Analysis

System analysis approach, often called NODAL Analysis, has been applied for

many years to analyse the performance of systems composed of interacting components.

The procedure consists of selecting a node in the well and dividing the system at this

point. All of the components upstream of the node comprise the inflow section, while the

outflow section consists of all the components downstream of the node.

Figure _ : System Analysis Approach

The effect of change in any of the components can be analysed by recalculating

the node pressure versus flowrate using new characteristics of the component. If a

change was made in an upstream component, the outflow curve will remain unchanged.

If either curve is changed, the intersection will be shifted and a new flow capacity and
node pressure will exist. The curves will also be shifted if either of the fixed pressures are

changed which may occur with depletion or a change in separation conditions.

IPR and PVT correlation

Inflow Performance Prediction

For predicting the performance of the inflow, some data were required to be set in

the software analysis (Prosper). One production test in unit 8 was carried out in Well-1 in

the 9-5/8” cased hole section. The flow results were as follow:

Main flow period – 1378 stb/d of oil with 24-degree API, 0.16 MMscf/d of gas, GOR

of 119 scf/stb at 128/64” chock size. Table _ shows the well test data used to obtain the

required results

Table _: Well Test Result Summary

Period Main Flow Period

Chock (“) 32/64

FBHP psi @ 1496.1 m-MDRKB 1753

FBHT ℉ @ 1496.1 m-MDRKB 155

WHP, psia 390

WHT, ℉ 97

Sep, P, psi 155

Sep,T, ℉ 94

SIBHP, psi @ 1496.1 m-MDRKB n/a

SIBHT ℉ @ 1496.1 m-MDRKB n/a

Oil rate stb/d 1,378

Gas rate, MMscf/d 0.16

Water rate stb/d 0

GOR, scf/stb 119

Gas gravity, SG (Air=1) 0.65

Oil, °𝐴𝑃𝐼 23.7

H2S, ppm 0

CO2, % 0

BS & W, % 0