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Coiled Tubing

The document discusses the history, components, applications and advantages of coiled tubing. It describes how coiled tubing units work and are used for various well interventions like cleaning, acidizing, cementing, fishing and more. The document also outlines some challenges and limitations of coiled tubing.

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Coiled Tubing

The document discusses the history, components, applications and advantages of coiled tubing. It describes how coiled tubing units work and are used for various well interventions like cleaning, acidizing, cementing, fishing and more. The document also outlines some challenges and limitations of coiled tubing.

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Coiled Tubing

Structure, Applications, and


Benefits

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Contents

Introduction
Key Elements of Coiled Tubing Unit
Well Control Equipment
Field Application of Coiled Tubing
The Problems
Advantages and Disadvantages
Summary

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Introduction
• What is Coiled Tubing?
• Definition
• CT diameter; 0.75 – 4”
• Raw material
• Reel length; 4,000 – 25,000’

• History of Coiled Tubing


• 1944….”PLUTO”
• 1960’s…. first fully functional CT unit
• 1970’s -1985…. CT developed, 8,500’ ,¾”

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Key Elements of a CT Unit

• Reel
• Injector Head
• Control Cabin
• Power Pack

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Injector
Head

Coiled
Tubing
Control
Cabin Tubing
Power Reel
Pack

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Well Control Equipment

• BOP topped with a stripper


• BOP rams
• Blind ram
• Shear ram
• Slip ram
• Pipe ram
• BOP types
• Single
• Double
• Quad
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Quad BOP – Components

Pressure port Blind rams

Shear rams
Kill port
Slip rams

Pipe rams

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Technical Challenges

• three technical challenges had to be


overcome:

• CT string…
• injector head…
• stripper or packoff device….

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Field Applications of Coiled Tubing

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Common Applications
• Washing Sand and Fill

• Scale Removal

• Unloading with Nitrogen

• Stimulation and Chemical Treatments

• Remedial Cementing

• Fishing
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Less Common Applications

• Drilling

• Wireline Logging

• Completions

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1. Washing Sand and Fill

• Removal of sand particles


from the wellbore

• Proppant flowback or
fracture operation screenout

• Gravel-pack failures

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Scale Removal .2

• Efficiently remove
downhole scale deposits

• Cleanout gaslift
mandrels, nipple profiles
and perforations

• Effective on iron sulfide,


barium sulfate, calcium
carbonate, silicates,
calcium sulfate, sludges,
paraffins, and coke tar
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3. Unloading with Nitrogen

• A quick and cost-


effective method

• Displacement of
wellbore fluid

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4. Stimulation and Chemical
Treatments

• Precise placement of
treating fluids
• Reduce exposure of
completion tubulars to
treating chemicals and
pressures
• Live well treatments
• Smaller treating volumes

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5. Remedial Cementing

• Perforation squeeze and


plugbacks

• Zonal isolations or
abandonment

• Casing leak repairs

• Plugging for abandonment

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6. Fishing

• Effective in highly deviated and


horizontal wells

• Perform circulating, jarring and


pulling operations concurrently

• No need to kill well

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1. Drilling

• New and deepening wells


• Slimhole applications
• Over and under balanced conditions
• No drilling rig required
• Compact size
• Decreased drilling times
• Environmentally friendly

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2. Wireline Logging

• Service highly deviated and


horizontal wells
• Continuous circulation of
fluids or gases
• Safe logging on live wells
• Fast trip times with
uniform speeds
• Accurate tool placement

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3. Completions

• New primary completions

• Re-completion

• Reduce number of
connections

• Reduce installation time

• Eliminate need for rig

• Live well completions

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Advantages of CT

• Overall Process Efficiency


• Live Well Service
• Ability to Push / Pull in Deviated Hole
• Performance - Speed In and Out of Hole
• Cost may be significantly reduced
• Versatility
Broad Spectrum of Applications
Sizes, Grades, and Lengths
• Small footprint
• Readily mobilization
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Small Footprint
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Moving
Disadvantages of CT

• Fatigue life limit (cycles)

• Pressure and tension

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Summary
• What is Coiled Tubing?
• History of Coiled Tubing
• Key Elements of Coiled Tubing Unit
• Well Control Equipment
• Field Application of Coiled Tubing
– Common application
– Less common application
• Advantages and Disadvantages

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Reference:
1. “World oil’s CT”- Handbook
Edited by: Mark E. Teel
Gulf Publishing Co.© 1993

2. “Coiled Tubing Buckling in Drilling


and Completing Horizontal Wells”
by :Jiang Wu and
H.C. Juvkam-Wold,
SPE Drilling and Completion, March, 1995.

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THE END

Thanks For Your Time

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