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Well Completion

Well completion involves post-drilling operations to enable hydrocarbon production, including well preparation, stimulation, drilling out flowback, and installing equipment. It is crucial to the well lifecycle, ensuring efficient production and future maintenance. There are two main completion types - open hole without casing and cased hole completions using lining and cementing. Multilateral completions expose more reservoir through selective functions. Intelligent completion systems provide direct downhole control of flow and separation through remote instrumentation and control.

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Well Completion

Well completion involves post-drilling operations to enable hydrocarbon production, including well preparation, stimulation, drilling out flowback, and installing equipment. It is crucial to the well lifecycle, ensuring efficient production and future maintenance. There are two main completion types - open hole without casing and cased hole completions using lining and cementing. Multilateral completions expose more reservoir through selective functions. Intelligent completion systems provide direct downhole control of flow and separation through remote instrumentation and control.

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Well completion

Introduction
• The term completion, when applied to oil wells, issued to define all post-drilling
operations that are necessary to hydrocarbon production.
• Completion has , on the whole, a permanent nature, which means that planning
parameters must be carefully evaluated, and possible solutions must undergo
technical and economical optimization.
• Completion planning involves choosing and organizing the equipment toa be used,
selecting materials, establishing production line tubing dimensions, stipulating
production intervals, and finally defining the mode of formation fluid production.
• This evaluation must take into account the evolution of the productive
characteristics of the well , according to the production forecast
Why well completion is required ?
Well completion is a series of steps–depending upon the completion method–performed after the
drilling and casing phase, that enable to well to produce hydrocarbons. The primary goals are to
stimulate the well to maximize production, and running tubing to enhance the well’s lifespan
and ease of maintenance.

The well completion process typically involves the following steps:


1. Well Preparation
2. Stimulation
3. Drill-out
4. Flowback

Overall, well completion is a crucial step in the lifecycle of an oil or gas well, ensuring efficient
production, reservoir protection, operational safety, and enabling future intervention and
maintenance activities.
Types of completion
Overview
Oil and gas well completions can be divided into two main categories: open hole well
completions, and the case-hole completions.

1) Open hole well completions :


• In open hole completions the pay rock is kept as it is, and no cemented casing columns are
needed.
• This type of completion is realized when the formation is self-supporting or when, on the
contrary, it is too severely fractured to guarantee successful
2) Cased-hole completions:
• Case-hole completions are more widely used due to technical reasons relating to the stability
of the hole.
• In this case the well to be completed is one that has been lined and cemented throughout its
entire development
• In order to make production possible, it is necessary tore-establish hydraulic communication
between the pay rock and the hole.
• This operation involves drilling the lining, the cementation and the pay rock
3) Multilateral completions:
• The introduction of deviated well drilling, and in particular the adoption of multilateral
schemes has led to the necessity to develop devices for completions.
• In general, completion technology for multilateral wells combines selective and multiple
functions,
• Multilateral wells expose the reservoir to the productive system more than others, thus
increasing the productivity from a single slot.
4) Intelligent Completion Systems (ICS) : The term Intelligent Completion System indicates the direct control
of well processes. This system aims to control the flow and emission, both on a productive level and on an
environmental level, operating as close as possible to the source in order to adopt the best production strategies
to control well behaviour.
The most interesting aspects of ICS include:
a)flow control of different production levels;
b) Selective closing of the levels where production is conditioned by water or gas rates greater than the established
ones;
c) selective water injection for assisted production on different levels;
d ) instrumentation for precise measurements of pressure, temperature and flow dynamics;
e) devices for the separation of water, oil and gas downhole;
f ) remote control of production;
g ) instrumentation for selective testing of the production capacity of the various levels.
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