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Volume 5, Number 8 |
Welcome to
Technology Update, the Baker Hughes eNewsletter to inform you about
our latest technologies for oil and gas drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production.
 INTEQ Drills 16" Tangent Section in North Caspian Six Days Ahead of AFE, Saving $1.4 million
INTEQ has successfully drilled a 16" tangent section with the
AutoTrak® G3.0 drilling system in the North Caspian. A detailed Application Engineering study, utilizing the OASIS process, was completed along with an Answers While Drilling program that mitigated hazards previously experienced while drilling this difficult section. The BHA design, rig awareness campaign and dedicated Applications Engineering support provided during the drilling phase produced a “Best-in-Class” performance. The 1499 m (4918 ft) section was drilled in a single run with an average ROP of 9.67 m/hr (limited by surface cuttings removal). The AutoTrak system performed flawlessly during all 223 circulating hours with the tool in good condition when pulled out of the hole. The casing point was reached six days ahead of AFE and casing run and set without any problems. This efficiency saved the client $1.4 million on the overall cost of the well. The BHA performed according to the engineering design and the run recorded the lowest vibrations recorded by VSS for this application.
 Baker Petrolite Scale Dissolver/Hydrate Inhibitor Provides Flow Assurance for Subsea Gas Lift Line, Reduces Glycol Costs
Baker Petrolite recently conducted a novel scale dissolver/inhibitor squeeze at the FPSO,
“Anasuria” in the North Sea. In previous operations, enormous amounts of
glycol were required to ensure that hydrate formation did not occur upon
the introduction of gas while fluids were present in the line. The Baker
Petrolite team recommended the use of
HI-M-PACT™ Low Dose Hydrate Inhibitors (LDHI) to reduce the volume of glycol, thereby eliminating the need for a dedicated vessel to deliver and pump the glycol. Following chemical treatments, the well was opened up successfully without hydrate formation occurring within the gas lift line. The step-change improvement in this application reduced costs to the customer by nearly $1 million and will be adopted for all North Sea scale squeeze operations done at subsea wells via gas lift lines.
 Centrilift Installing Extreme Temperature ESPs for Canadian SAGD Oil Sands Project
Centrilift is providing 10 extreme temperature
electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems
for the first phase of a steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project in the Canadian oil sands. Four years of intensive research and development at Centrilift’s hot loop testing facility resulted in an extreme system designed to withstand fluid temperatures up to 240° C (464° F) for the project. The Centrilift system is now the only ESP design successfully tested in these temperature ranges and the only integrated ESP provider in the SAGD market.
 Hughes Christensen Genesis Motor Steerable Technology Achieves Single Run Footage Record in Eastern Canada
Hughes Christensen’s
Genesis® motor steerable technology continues to raise the industry standard for directional PDC bit performance. The latest success was achieved drilling an 8-1/2" hole section in McCully field, New Brunswick, Eastern Canada. The objective was to reduce cost/ft by maximizing penetration rates and to finish the section in one run. To meet the challenge, Hughes Christensen engineers recommended an 8-1/2" Genesis bit with
EZSteer™ depth-of-cut control technology to limit the cutter’s “bite” for improved tool face control. The bit was run with outstanding results setting a new single run footage record of 7006 ft (2135 m) in 175.6 hrs of drilling at an average ROP of 40 ft/hr.
 BHDF Performs First Application of MAX-BRIDGE System to Reduce Oil-based Fluid Losses in Saudi Arabia
Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids has successfully applied the
MAX-BRIDGE® system on a challenging well in the Shaiybah Field onshore, in eastern Saudi Arabia. This application marked the first time the MAX-BRIDGE system was used with an oil-based mud. The main challenge in drilling the well was the very weak Arab formation encountered in the field. The formation has a high potential for differential sticking and downhole losses to the depleted zones due to the presence of high differential pressure. Previous offset wells had experienced drilling difficulties, severe fluid losses, and differential sticking resulting in significant expense to the operator. Using the MAX-BRIDGE system, losses were limited to just 15 bph. The operator was able to successfully drill down to the casing point and set the liner smoothly on bottom.
 Baker Atlas Downhole Seismic Services Acquires VSP in East Texas Under Difficult Conditions; Imaging Saves Sidetrack Cost
Baker Atlas
Downhole Seismic Services (DSS)
recently completed a multi-offset
Vertical Seismic Profile (VSP) survey for a small independent in East Texas. The customer drilled a well planning to cut a fault based on old 2D seismic data. Baker Atlas ran open hole logs that proved the wellbore did not cut the fault. The customer asked the Baker Atlas sales team if there was a way to image away from the borehole so it could be determined if a fault was present in the vicinity of the wellbore. The Baker Atlas seismic group was immediately contacted and a plan was put together to run a multi-offset VSP that could determine where the fault was located, if present. The borehole seismic crew provided the expertise to acquire the multi-offset VSP survey under extreme weather conditions (major flooding in the area). Field data were expedited to
VSFusion for fast turnaround processing while the rig stood by waiting on results. The VSFusion team processed the multi-offset data in 48 hours. Baker Atlas then interpreted the VSP offset images which, although tied the surface seismic, showed no indication of faulting. The client expressed gratitude to the field crew for their efforts in the extreme weather and to VSFusion for its fast and accurate data processing. The client was convinced of the value of VSP since it reduced costs by not drilling an unwarranted sidetrack.
Baker Atlas and VSFusion will be exhibiting at the
2007 Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Annual Meeting in San Antonio September 23 - 28. Stop by booth 1640 to learn more about these and other ground-breaking technologies available from Baker Hughes.
 Baker Oil Tools Performs First Casing Exit Out of Titanium Casing in California
Baker Oil Tools has successfully completed the first worldwide casing exit out of 13-3/8" 39.87lb/ft titanium casing in a geothermal environment for a well in Imperial Valley, California.. Careful planning utilized a
WindowMaster® G-2 Whipstock System using
METAL MUNCHER® buttons with Opti-cut backing. The total milling time was 23 hours with milling operations performed using an INTEQ mud motor. After drilling operations, the whipstock was successfully retrieved to complete a Level 2 multilateral well.
 ProductionQuest Installs Its First Acoustic Logger for an Offshore Malaysia Deep Well Project
ProductionQuest has successfully installed its first Acoustic Logger system on a deep well project. The exploration/appraisal wells on the project are all cased and then abandoned. The project scope has two gages installed downhole to monitor individual zones while pulse testing from other nearby appraisal wells takes place. The pulse is often extremely small and difficult to detect. To increase the accuracy of the downhole gages and eliminate tidal effects, another gage is installed at the tree cap subsea to monitor tidal effects, which are significant in the deep waters off Sabah where water depths are in excess of 4000 m (13,123 ft). An acoustic data logger is mounted on the tree cap at the seabed and the gage data is then uploaded acoustically where it is analyzed to determine if reservoirs are connected and boundaries identified.
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 Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids Introduces
the TERRA-MAX System: The Next Generation of Environmentally
Compliant Fluids
HOUSTON – Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids has introduced the
TERRA-MAXSM system, its revolutionary new customizable,
high-performance water-based mud designed specifically to
deliver improved drilling and environmental performance in a low
salinity environment.
Combining state-of-the-art drilling fluid technologies, the
TERRA-MAX system delivers total inhibition of formations
encountered onshore and on inland water drilling applications.
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Hughes at Technical Conferences
Oil Sands Tradeshow and Conference
September 11 - 12
Calgary, Alberta
SEG International Exposition and 77th Annual Meeting
September 23 - 28
San Antonio, TX
KIOGE – 15th Kazakhstan International Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference
October 2 - 5
Almaty, Kazakhstan
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