Project Overview
- Project Scope: Evaluate and catalogue the various operational performance capabilities and limitations of downhole surveying technology/tools; identify the current best practices, evaluate these technologies and practices; and propose improvements to BSEE regulations as related to wellbore surveying technology associated with surveying accuracy and survey management, as well as relief well/well intersection operations. Focus is on high temperature tools (350°F and greater).
- Project Schedule: Final report due August 2016.
Approach
- Survey Equipment & Procedures
- What tools/systems are available for high temperature (>350 °F) directional surveys, MWD, and ranging? Limitations?
- What are the best practices for running surveys (accuracy, quality, performance)?
- What are the emerging technologies in ranging, guidance, and surveying
- What’s needed to improve performance/reliability at high temperatures (>350 °F)?
- Looking at routine operations, relief well operations, and collision avoidance.
- Survey Data Management
- Roles of Operators, Service Companies, Regulators, and Others
- What data management procedures are currently used? Can a survey be reconstructed?
- What are the field QC and data storage practices, data formats, means of sharing and interpretation?
- Wide Area Standards
- What error models, references and corrections are used?
- What standards exist? (country, state, SPE, API, etc.)
- What should be required for all wells? Are field or area specific standards needed?
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BSEE Wellbore Surveying Technology Project
Jim Rice - ICF International