Intelligent Completions and Smart Well Technology | SLB

Intelligent completions

Optimize recovery with real-time control

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Leaders in intelligent completion innovations: Setting the standard for reliability, efficiency, and integration

Robust and versatile, standard SLB configurable technologies enable modular intelligent completion designs to accommodate various well conditions. Our solutions are engineered to withstand severe environments with scale deposits, erosion, and high temperatures. A selection of interval control valves address a wide range of oil, water, and gas applications, including multizone intelligent completions and water injectors.

Our electric interval control valves (eICVs) expand options for reservoir, completion, production, and process engineers.

  • They provide reservoir and completion engineers with greater flexibility for well construction and completion architecture compared with hydraulically controlled downhole valves featuring discrete or direct-position chokes.
  • Production engineers acquire rapid, high-precision zonal or compartmental reservoir control to maximize recovery efficiency.
  • And process engineers use eICVs to extend facility process control into the reservoir, rapidly resolving facility process constraints by suppressing unwanted water and gas production.

Recognized for their exceptional reliability and track record, our eICVs provide the most precise control of reservoir production and injection across an unprecedented number of zones and compartments per well, maximizing recovery efficiency.

Simplify intelligent completion design—with flexibility

Whether you are planning a few simple multizone wells or a field of complex multilaterals, you can rely on SLB expertise for intelligent completion systems that deliver maximum performance for specific economic and technical conditions. 

Each intelligent completion system and our modular equipment are designed and engineered to enable seamless integration and flexibility. Every reservoir is unique, and our technology helps you simplify planning, reduce installation risk, and implement the active monitoring and control you want for your target well type. Intuitive surface interfaces help you manage your production with ease.

Electric Intelligent Well Completion
With an electric intelligent completion, you'll control fluid contributions across the sandface in near real time for any well length.

Intelligent completions systems and components

Production and reservoir management system

Surface-actuated downhole flow control valves for selective control of production or injection

Automated analysis and interpretation of data from intelligent completions

Realize the full potential of hydraulic, electrohydraulic, and electric intelligent completions with a simple, secure interface

Intelligent Completions Actuation Comparison

 
  Hydraulic  Electrohydraulic Electric
Single-trip intelligent completions Yes  Yes Yes
Multilateral intelligent completions Junction control Junction control In-lateral zonal control
Extended-reach intelligent completions Lower range of depths Lower range of depths Yes
Multitrip intelligent completions Yes  – Yes
Total number of control lines - 1 electrical
- N+1 hydraulic
(N = number of valves)
- 1 electrical
- 2 hydraulic
- 1 electrical
Operational efficiency Good Better Best
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