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{"title":"Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Drilling Risk Prediction Methods for Shale Gas Field in Sichuan Basin","authors":"Gaocheng Wang, Chunduan Zhao, Xing Liang, Yuanwei Pan, Li Lin, Lizhi Wang, Yun Rui, Qingshan Li","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19487-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19487-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Huangjinba shale gas field is located at the south edge of the Sichuan Basin. It has very complex structures, in situ stresses and natural fracture corridors in comparison to adjacent areas in the Sichuan Basin. In recent drilling campaigns, drilling risks have caused some wells to fail in reaching their planned total depth, eventually failing to deliver cost-effective gas production. In order to mitigate drilling risks, e.g. mud loss, collapse, stuck, hang up, gas kick, effective drilling risk prediction is an urgent challenge to address. Integrating quantitative drilling risk prediction methods with qualitative methods could increase the prediction accuracy and avoid or mitigate the drilling risk during the well deployment stage.\u0000 In this project, multiple seismic attributes were used to predict natural fracture distributions which qualitatively indicated the locations where drilling risks were likely occur. Comprehensive geophysical characterization was performed to identify natural fracture zones and patterns, and their mechanisms were validated by analyzing regional geological and tectonic evolution.\u0000 Image log data was then integrated into the natural fracture distribution prediction from seismic to build a DFN (Discrete Fracture Network). This combination of the DFN predicted from seismic data plus quantitative image log information allowed improved accuracy in the prediction of drilling risks.\u0000 Following this, natural fracture stability was analyzed by building a 3D geomechanics model in order to predict drilling complex qualitatively. A full field 3D geomechanics model was built through integrating seismic, geological structure, log and core data. The 3D geomechanical model includes 3D anisotropic mechanical properties, 3D pore pressure, and the 3D in-situ stress field. Through leveraging measurements from an advanced sonic tool and core data, the anisotropy of the formation was captured at wellbores and propagated to 3D space guided by prestack seismic inversion data. 3D pore pressure prediction was conducted using seismic data and calibrated against pressure measurements, mud logging data, and flowback data. The discrete fracture network model, which represented multi-scale natural fracture systems, was integrated into the 3D geomechanical model during stress modeling to reflect the disturbance on the in-situ stress field by the presence of the natural fracture systems.\u0000 From these models, a drilling map which quantitatively indicated the depth where drilling risk such as mud loss, gas kick, etc. occurred was created along the well trajectory.\u0000 This paper presents the highlights and innovations in seismic multi-attributes analysis and full-field geomechanics modeling which integrate qualitative and quantitative methods for drilling risk prediction.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89525419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Study on the Phase Equilibrium of Gas Hydrate Based on Main-Branch Pipe Confluence Model","authors":"S. Deng, Yali Liu, Xia Wei, L. Tao, Yanfeng He","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19167-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19167-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Phase change, a major factor that restricts the development of gas hydrate, is likely to cause blockage in well completion section (sieve section – wellbore lifting section), thus resulting in the engineering losses. In view of the defects in the previous studies on the confluence mechanism of completion section of gas hydrate pressure drop method mining under openhole completion technology, the flow of gas hydrate in the well completion section was simplified as the Main-Branch pipe confluence model in this paper. Firstly, a physical model was established. On the basis of the energy conservation law and the Peng-Robinson equation, the temperature and pressure coupling model was also derived. Then, the Fluent software was used to simulate the temperature gradient and pressure gradient changes in the Main-Branch model. The gas hydrate phase diagram and P-T environment under different velocity were obtained. Finally, the contrast analysis between theoretical model and numerical simulation was carried out and the established model was verified. Through the study of this paper, it is possible to prevent blockage of the well completion section by means of depressurization, which can provide theoretical guidance for the control of pressure drop when gas hydrate is extracted by depressurization. It is important for the exploitation and continuous production of gas hydrate in the later stage.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89664185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integration of Electrical Micro-Image Log, Advance 3D Acoustic Anisotropy and Fracture Stability Analysis – A Complete Solution for Basement Reservoir","authors":"Anindya Nandi, S. Sarkar, Chandreyi Chatterjee, Sourav Das, Sambit Pattanaik, Chandan Majumder, Bhopal Kumar Haldia, P. Chaturvedi, Siddharth Srivastava, M. Verma, S. Sarkar","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19355-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19355-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Owing to the depleting reserves in the conventional reservoirs over the last few years, unconventional reservoirs have gained significant importance in the exploration of oil and gas. Basement rocks, though non-sedimentary in origin, is looked upto as one of the important unconventional reservoirs. Deccan volcanics in Kutch-Saurashtra is one such example from India. This study shows and validates a methodology of how acoustic log data can be integrated with borehole images to understand reservoir properties that governs flow. It has been noticed that presence of open fractures is not the single biggest driver contributing to production. Insitu stress plays a critical role in guiding fracture mobility. To understand and determine which fractures would contribute to flow, a geomechanical study of performing the fracture stability analysis has been carried out. This generates a Mohr circle plot that defines the Mohr-Colomb shear failure criteria using the stress and critical fracture angles. Combining these three-way approaches of acoustic, image log and geomechanics, a workflow has been established for this field to identify fractures and quantify the permeable zones. This workflow has been used for two nearby wells in this field and subsequent result emphasises the utility of this method to find out sweet spots of fluid flow in fractured basement.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74948728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Well Stimulation Evaluation in Horizontal Wells with Emphasis on Petrophysics and Rock Mechanics: A Case Study in Deep, Tight Carbonate Formation","authors":"Yuhai Zhou, Wenyu Zhang, D. Zhu","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19118-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19118-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Tight carbonate formations with extremely low porosity and permeability depend on well-designed completion and stimulation treatments to achieve economic production. Acid fracturing, a relative cost-effective choice compared with propped fracturing, is widely used for carbonate stimulation. However, many factors contribute to the acid etching created conductivity, which is a key parameter for the success of acid fracturing. From a petrophysical perspective, depth-by-depth rock mechanical properties, stress distribution as well as the heterogeneous petrophysical properties (e.g. porosity and permeability) are important local information affecting final fracture conductivity. In this paper, we conduct an integrated evaluation for multi-stage acid fracturing in a horizontal well in a deep, tight carbonate reservoir in Tarim field, China.\u0000 We perform multi-mineral analysis and estimate volumetric concentrations of minerals, porosity, and fluid saturations with conventional well logs. Since shear wave sonic logs are not available for most of the wells, we estimate rock mechanical properties (Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio) using effective medium models including self-consistent approximation and differential effective medium theory. Corrections including the impact of fluids are developed using Gassmann's fluid substitution. Besides, we estimate depth by depth permeability with empirical correlations. Core measurements are used for cross-validating the well-log-based estimates of rock mechanical properties, porosity and permeability. Horizontal stress distribution and closure stress field are generated using poroelasticity stress model with estimated Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio as inputs. We also perform variogram analysis on well-log-based estimates of permeability and obtain its correlation length in both vertical and horizontal direction to quantify formation heterogeneity.\u0000 The estimated rock mechanical properties, stress distribution, and petrophysical properties are used as inputs to 3D acid fracturing treatment modeling. The simulated fracture geometry, especially fracture height, is highly dependent on stress variation. The modeled acid transportation in fracture is strongly affected by permeability correlation lengths. The study result shows that the conductivity created by acid fracturing under local high closure stress is insufficient for successful acid stimulation treatments.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74634948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"KPI Based Standardizing Static Geomodeling Practices for QA and QC of Models","authors":"P. Dhote, T. Al-Adwani, M. Al-Bahar, Ahmad Al-otaibi, S. Chakraborty, Slobodan Stojić","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19123-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19123-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Subsurface petroleum industry is burdened with uncertainties in every aspect from exploration to production due to limitations of accessibility to reservoir and technology. The most important tools used to understand, quantify and mitigate the uncertainties are geostatistical static modeling and numerical dynamic simulation geomodels. Geomodels are widely used in the industry for characterizing the reservoir and planning favorable development strategy. It is vital instrument for maximizing asset value and optimize project economics.\u0000 Static geomodels are foundation for all the advanced numerical and analytical solutions to solve the intricacies of reservoir performance. At the same time, it is where all the static and dynamic geological and engineering observations get integrated to develop common understanding of the reservoir for future studies. Understanding of the above observations and imaging of reservoir framework by individual is the basis for building static geomodels. Hence, at time, the process is highly subjective and proper QC'ing of the models to achieve the general and specific modeling objectives becomes imperative. Simple Questionaries’ based QC'ing and ranking methodologies are also controlled by subjectivity and individual preferences.\u0000 In the present endeavor, quantitative ‘Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)’ based standard static geomodeling practices and QC'ing methodologies at corporate level are developed in specially designed \"Process Implementation Project (PIP) – Hydrocarbon resource and Uncertainty Management\"’ under the aegis of ‘Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) - Reservoir Management Best Practices Steering Committee'.\u0000 The main objectives are to establish a practical modeling process, workflows and criteria to standardize modeling processes. A structured self-guidling modeling document has been developed with self-assemment guidelines and questionary. Finally, for each individual process a set of KPIs are specified as minimum standard to meet to obtain the approval of static model.\u0000 The present efforts are important for any geologists, geomodelers and reservoir engineers dealing with geostatistical and numerical reservoir modeling and will provide the KPI's based general practices for quality assurance (QA) and QC'ing of the models.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"344 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75120532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New Reservoir Prediction Method Based on Geological Seismic Conditioning for Complex Barrier Island and Its Application at H Oil Field","authors":"Xin Chen, Suhong Zhang, J. Ou, Yufeng Ye, Lei Xu, Yingze Ma, Xiaodong Wei, Ke Yang, Gang Chen, Guofeng Zhou, Yaliang Xia, Xiao Yan, Zeren Zhang, Jingluan Liu, Xiao-ming Zhou","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19145-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19145-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In order to improve the accuracy of reservoir prediction results, the conventional method usually include seismic inversion, and seismic attribute analysis. Due to the limitation of the vertical resolution of seismic data, it is hard to identify the thin reservoir by seismic attributes directly. In order to improve the prediction accuracy of reservoir, this paper show a new reservoir characterization technique based on geological seismic conditioning. The new method mainly includes five steps. The first step is sedimentary facies classification based on the geological seismic analysis, such as core data, thin section analysis, FMI logging, NMR logging and conventional logging. The second step is modern sedimentary model optimization and forward modelling. In order to establish a reasonable sedimentary facies model, a similar barrier island modern sedimentary model was chosen. To understand the geological significance of seismic data, two different dominant frequency were designed for forward modelling based on the sedimentary facies model and petrophysical analysis. The third step is seismic conditioning under the guide of sedimentary facies model forward modelling. The next step is seismic constraint stochastic inversion, and the last step is reservoir characterization and new well confirm. The application of this method in A oilfield shows that the techniques not only improved the identification ability of the reprocessing seismic data, but also improved the prediction accuracy of the reservoir characterization results. This new reservoir characterization technique can integrated multidisplinary information, such as modern sedimentary model, well data and seismic data, to establish a reasonable sedimentary model, to enhance the resolution of seismic data by conditioning, and get an reasonable reservoir characterization results based on the seismic inversion.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75354630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Equivalent Media Theory for Reservoir Characterization","authors":"S. Prajapati, D. Ghosh","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19301-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19301-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The existence of elastic anisotropy in the reservoir is obtained through the equivalent media theory. An isotropic elastic theory fairly explains the reservoir modeling or characterization but its not well explain anisotropic characteristic fairly for reservoir characterization which is extremely challenging without considering a self-consistent theory of effective equivalent media theory. In this research, equivalent media theory has been explained and implemented on a producing well-log data with consistent Vp, Vs, density and other parameters. Instead of using Voigt averaging, equivalent media theory used to estimate the effective stiffness parameters and compare with Thomsen's parameters and finally used effective anisotropy parameters and compare with gamma log. Result shows the effectiveness of equivalent media theory for future application for developing reservoir modeling and characterization.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77006589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experimental Study on Surface Frictional Behavior of Materials for Lost Circulation Control in Deep Naturally Fractured Reservoir","authors":"Chengyuan Xu, Xiaopeng Yan, Yili Kang, Lijun You, Zhang Jingyi, Chong Lin, Haoran Jing","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19486-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19486-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Plugging natural fractures with lost control materials (LCMs) is the common method to prevent foramtion damage and control fluids loss in In naturally fractured reservoir. The plugging zone strenfth stability is critically important for maintaining long-term plugging quality. Surface friction coefficient (SFC) is proposed as an important parameter for the selection of LCMs based on based on granular matter mechanics and the instability of plugging zone. The force chain network with specific geometry is the basis of the plugging zone strength and supporting external load. The likelihood of shear failure can be increased by decline of SFC. And high strength of force chain can not be formed and it can relatively easy to be broken even if a small shear is applied. Effects of LCMs particle size distribution, circulation abrasion, LCMs combination, working fluids infiltration, and high temperature aging on friction behaviors are analyzed for LCMs with high SFC selection. Results show that the average SFC shows a decreasing trend with the particle size reduction and the difficulty of particle dislocation decreases with the particle size reduction. For deep naturally fractured reservoirs, particle size will degradate due to long-term drilling fluid circulation in the wellbore, thus affecting the plugging effect of drill-in fluid. The mixture of elastic material and fiber into rigid material increases the SFC and elastic material contributes most to the increasing the SFC. The SFC decreases under the condition of fluids infiltration, and the SFC show a higher decline in oil-based condition. The high-temperature aging makes the edge of the organic rigid material more smooth, which reduces its SFC.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78531194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Connected Reservoir Regions Map Created From Time-Lapse Pressure Data Shows Similarity to Other Reservoir Quality Maps in a Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir","authors":"B. Kayode, M. Yaacob, Faisal Abdullah","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19163-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19163-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The purpose of this paper is to highlight the similarity between Connected Reservoir Regions (CRR)map created using time-lapse pressure groups (Kayode et.al 2018)and other reservoir quality maps like Seismic Acoustic Impedance (SAI) map and petro-physical rock quality map.\u0000 Time-lapse average reservoir pressure from producers and injectors spanning several years of field production were sorted into groups of similar pressure trends. Wells that show similar pressure trend were classified into same CRR, while wells that show different pressure trends were classified into different CRRs. Only wells operating within the same reservoir zone have been used in the pressure grouping in order to ensure that the observed pressure trend differences are only due to lateral variations of reservoir quality and not due to vertical zonation. A geo-modelling software was used to create connected reservoir regions map in which all wells within the same pressure group are identified with a unique colour code and polygons are drawn to delineate the spatial limits of wells within each pressure group. The CRR map thus obtained, was then compared with SAI map and permeability quality map.\u0000 Similarity was observed between the CRR map, SAI map and petro-physical rock quality map. Areas indicated as poor quality (high impedance) on the SAI map and indicated as low permeability on petro-physical map were consistent with CRR regions that are characterized by high injection pressure and poor pressure support. Areas indicated as good quality (low impedance) on SAI map and high permeability on petro-physical rock quality map were consistent with CRR regions that are characterized by low injection pressure and excellent producer-injector communication. In addition, a particular well was sidetracked in order to improve reservoir sweep, this producer whose pressure had been historically fairly steady, experienced a sudden increase of time-lapse average reservoir pressure. When the pre and post sidetrack locations of this well were plotted on CRR map, the reason for the sudden pressure increase became obvious; well was sidetracked across CRR boundary, from a poor reservoir quality to a good reservoir quality CRR.\u0000 In certain cases, oil and gas fields may not have seismic data, in other cases the resolution of the returned seismic signal may be weak. In such cases, CRR maps created using time-lapse average reservoir pressure groups could be used during geo-modelling,for controlling the distribution of 3-D properties away from well control points, instead of seismic acoustic impedance reservoir quality map.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87542180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Real-Time Automated Drilling Optimization and Operations Benchmarking Services Deliver a Step Change in Khalda Western Desert Operations","authors":"Mohamed Abd-El Mageed, M. Awad, A. Hussein, A. Osman, M. Siam, M. Al-Kaabi, A. Rafik","doi":"10.2523/IPTC-19204-MS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19204-MS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Egypt's Western Desert is known to be a highly complex and difficult drilling environment. Drilling in this area suffers from multiple geological risks related to formation dip and hardness, faulting, interbedding, and abrasive lithology. These conditions have typically caused drilling problems and costly delays in wells delivery. Combined with the geological difficulties, differences in the implemented drilling practices and operational procedures have led to inefficiencies and the loss of some knowledge transfer among different drilling activities and field operations.\u0000 For a proof of concept in one of its fields, Khalda endorsed a drilling automation and operations benchmarking strategy to improve the well delivery time in one of its Western Desert fields. The strategy focused on on-bottom drilling activity as well as off-bottom practices and flat-time activities. One part of this strategy endorsed a real-time automated drilling optimization workflow for the on-bottom drilling activities whereby the implementation of a change-point algorithm dictates the optimum drilling parameters to obtain the best possible rate of penetration (ROP) within the rig and drilling assembly constraints and while operating within the safe drilling dynamics window for the assembly. This approach yields the optimum ROP and prevents any possible downhole equipment failure or premature bit damage. The other part of the strategy involved benchmarking the different rig activities while drilling or doing other mechanical operations to gauge the activity of the current well compared to the offset well. This highlights any inefficiencies that can be immediately overcome, areas of improvement, and key learnings for future optimization or implementation.\u0000 This strategy was implemented in a deep gas development well in a challenging Western Desert field with known problematic offsets. The results showed a step change in well delivery whereby the well finished 3 days ahead of plan and 7 days ahead of the offset well. The real-time automation technique for drilling optimization managed to show 24% on-bottom ROP improvement in one section, enabled completing another section with a one run less than offset, and managed to mitigate the harsh drilling dynamics to prevent downhole equipment incidents. Also, the activities benchmarking helped to develop standard drilling practices that reduced inefficiencies in off-bottom drilling activities by 50% and managed to highlight key learnings and areas of development for future wells. These results helped in validating the proof of concept set at the beginning of this pilot.","PeriodicalId":11267,"journal":{"name":"Day 3 Thu, March 28, 2019","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81493890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}