Video Well and Completion Optimization
Petrel subsurface software and Trajectory Planning with Reservoir Engineering Core provide efficient use of drill plans across reservoir targets to maximize hydrocarbon recovery.
Petrel well & completion design
Create complex well geometries while designing completions with devices and valves best suited for a variety of phase control scenarios.
Overview
An engineered well, and the corresponding completion, is the link between the subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbon and the producing surface facilities, which deliver the hydrocarbon to market. The design of the location, type, and operation mode are paramount in ensuring the hydrocarbons are optimally recovered.
Applications
- Inflow control devices and well position are optimally configured to ensure maximum steam to oil ratio in steam-assisted gravity drainage applications.
- Field-development plans are guided using various pad configurations as guided by geological targets and variations.
- Drilling risks are managed in Petrel Well Design as geomechanical uncertainty is modeled in the context of drilling and geology.
Benefits
Petrel™ enables well and completion design that spans across all disciplines. The appropriate tools and canvas are provided to ensure the successful construction of both well and completion apparatus.
Field-development plans are guided using various pad configurations as guided by geological targets and variations.
Features
Comprehensive well and completion design options
From the conception of complex deepwater wells connected to various reservoir targets, to the enumeration of pads of onshore unconventional wells, to the design of inflow control devices spaced across a well (opened at various times to control steam injection in thermal recovery applications), Petrel offers widespread well and completion design options.
The interface for building schematics is equally provisional, giving flexibility to build designs interactively—in tables, in cross-section, and in 3D—where there is clear flow into simulation application.
There is also the ability to automate design parameters to guide the creation of wells and completions, the incorporation of multi-segment well models, and the extensibility to wellbore simulation engines to accurately convey pressure, temperature, and fluid transport from subsurface to surface.
Training
NExT Petrel training courses
NExT offers a comprehensive training program to support users of the SLB software, plugins, and other software products.