Agenda

  • A brief review of ranging techniques
  • Project details
  • Technical challenges
  • The engineered approach - methodology
  • Ranging tool response
  • A selection of ranging data
  • Milling and re-entering the target
  • Results 

Passive Magnetic Ranging

  • MWD detects interference from the adjacent well
  • While Drilling logging allows one to identify precise interval over which to acquire ranging data
  • Can be transmitted in both sliding and rotary drilling modes
  • Useful especially in presence of pipe breaks

Active Ranging While Drilling

  • Surface Injection - Patent # 9938773, Moss et al.
  • Current injected on surface travels down the pipe
  • The current has associated with it a magnetic field
  • The MWD sensor can detect the magnetic field while drilling
  • A distance and direction can be computed
  • Motor highside to target is known at an instant in time – Referenced to gravity HS, Magnetic TF and GYRO TF 

Wireline Active Ranging

  • What is it?
    • Wireline deployed in the drilling well
    • Current injection and detection in one assembly
    • Array of onboard sensors to detect:
      • Magnetic Field
      • Gravity field
      • Earth spin rate
    • Distance and direction from the open hole to the target well
  • Specifications
    • Detection up to 200’ away
    • Direction to target +/- 3°
    • Distance to target +/- 10% when in gradient range

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From an Art to a Science: Factory Drilling Plug and Abandonment Wells at Twice the Speed for Half the Cost

Presented by Clinton Moss and Anas Sikal

 

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