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Analyses and Applications of Pressure, Flow Rate, and Temperature Pressure, Flow
Rate, and Temperature Measurements During a Perforating Run
Summary.:-
Perforating technology has undergone significant advances during the last decade.
Tubing-conveyed perforating, underbalanced perforating, high-shot-density guns, better
shaped charges, and improved gun systems have contributed to safer operations and
improved productivity of the perforated completions. A recent development described in
this paper is a perforated completion.
A recent development described in this paper is a perforating tool that makes real-time
down hole measurements [including perforating tool that makes real-time downhole
measurements [including pressure, flow rate, temperature, gamma ray, casing-collar
locator (CCL), pressure, flow rate, temperature, gamma ray, casing-collar locator (CCL),
and cable tension] during a perforating run and can selectively fire a number of guns at
different depths or times.
In addition to providing better control of the perforating process, the simultaneous down
hole measurements can provide in a single trip a production log, conventional well tests
before and after perforating, and a fill-up or slug test soon after perforating for
underbalanced conditions. Thus,
he completion can be evaluated in real time and any needed remedial reperforating can
be performed while the gun is still in the hole. Other applications include limited-entry
perforating, monitoring of bottomhole pressure (BHP) during minifracture jobs, better
depth control with a gamma pressure (BHP) during minifracture jobs, better depth
control with a gamma ray detector, fluid-level monitoring, and underbalance control. The
applications of these measurements, with field data obtained with the Measurement
While Perforating (MWPSM) tool, are the subject of this paper. Examples show the
capabilities and the versatility of the MWP tool.
Introduction
Gun perforating has been used successfully as a well-completion method for the last 50
years. Many developments in perforating technology have occurred to facilitate creation
of a clean flow channel between the reservoir and the wellbore with minimum damage
to the producing formation. These new developments have resulted in better
productivity of the perforated completions and in safer, more economical perforating
operations. Perhaps the most important development is the use of underbalanced
conditions. When a formation is perforated underbalanced, the sandface is suddenly
exposed to the lower pressure in the wellbore and the formation fluid enters the
wellbore with a high initial surge. This leads to an effective cleanup of the damage
caused by drilling and perforating and results in higher well productivity. The
underbalanced perforating technique results in better completions under a variety of
conditions. Fig. 1 shows typical underbalanced perforating setups for through-tubing
and tubing-conveyed techniques. With the advent of tubin conveyed perforating,
underbalanced perforating has gained acceptance as the technique for obtaining better
productivity than with other techniques. With underbalanced conditions, the formation
begins to flow immediately after perforating and the record of pressure and flow rate
during the fill-up period can be analyzed as a pressure and flow rate during the fill-up
period can be analyzed as a transient well test. Many variations of the well conditions
are possible during the fill-up period: a well can be open or shut-in at the possible during
the fill-up period: a well can be open or shut-in at the surface, it may or may not flow to
the surface, and the test could be complemented by one or more stabilized-rate tests
and buildups. In each case, however, a quick computer analysis can be done at the
wellsite, which results in significant time savings, particularly for low-permeability
reservoirs containing highly viscous oil. A large number of variables (formation
heterogeneities, damage from drilling/cementing, chemical incompatibilities between
completion and formation fluids, emulsions, etc.) affect the completion process.
Therefore, well completions seldom perform as expected. process. Therefore, well
completions seldom perform as expected. Each completion must be evaluated to
confirm its efficiency and to determine the remedial actions needed. Traditionally,
completion evaluation has been expensive and time-consuming, involving at least 1 or 2
days of well testing and production logging, and so often was bypassed. The MWP tool
combines the execution and evaluation phases of the completion process. It provides
production-logging/well-testing measurements during a perforating production-
logging/well-testing measurements during a perforating run an pressure, temperature,
and flow-profile measurements before and after perforating. It is no longer necessary to
make another trip for production-logging information after a perforating operation.
MWP Tool Description