Production and Operations: Tools for Well Integrity Management
Audio-Visual Equipment
Coffee Breaks
Welcome Reception
Workshop Lunches
5–8 October 2009
Crown Plaza Hotel
Chester, UK
This workshop will focus on the tools needed to manage well integrity. It will provide attendees with a clear check-list of the building blocks needed to manage annulus pressures. Well component performance requirements, data gathering, data analysis and accurate definition of the safe operating envelope for individual annuli over the well life-cycle will be addressed. Training requirements of well operators will be defined to ensure integrity of data collection and reporting.
When to take action with a well is a critical decision, both from a safety and economic perspective. A consistent approach to decision-making provides certainty within the organisation, focusing effort, and spending wisely. The decision-making steps will be set out to ensure all critical aspects are captured consistently. Risk analysis approaches used by different organisations and examples of risk management and risk-ranking methods will be discussed.
Sub-sea wells present unique challenges for well integrity management. The workshop will highlight the minimum standards of well monitoring required and techniques successfully applied for diagnosing the root causes of integrity problems in sub-sea wells. New technologies for well problem diagnosis and well repair will be discussed in the context of sub-sea and surface wells.
The fundamental purpose of the well can be compromised in short timescales by poor well design or construction practices, and in longer timescales by equipment failure or degradation of construction materials, thus generating leak paths. This workshop will end with a session that will define where it is worthwhile to pay particular attention to well integrity during well design and construction to ensure the well maintains its integrity through the operational phase. Aspects to consider will include design elements that are necessary to allow well integrity status to be accurately determined through the life-cycle. Examples of the demonstrable benefits of well integrity management will be used to illustrate the tangible value of monitoring well integrity and acting upon the data gathered in a timely way.
Workshop Objectives and Deliverables
- Define the building blocks of successful annulus pressure management, the equipment items, their performance standards, field data collection requirements, and methodology for data analysis
- Demonstrate the benefits of risk analysis, and share methods applied across the industry
- Develop an approach to risk management
- Provide a rational basis for management of subsea well integrity; what should be monitored and how; when action should be taken
- Share approaches used to diagnose the problems of sub-sea wells
- Learn about emerging technologies for well integrity problem diagnosis and new techniques tried for well repair
- Define the basic elements of well integrity management training for field operators
- Focus on well design elements that enhance or hinder well integrity status definition during the operating phase of the well life-cycle
- Illustrate the demonstrable benefits of well integrity management from field experience
Who Should Attend
The workshop is a limited attendance meeting for up to 80 people, designed for professionals in the oil and gas industry who are involved in the design, construction and operation of wells, i.e. within the following disciplines:
- Well Construction
- Production Maintenance
- Drilling Engineering
- Safety Engineering
- Well Intervention
- Asset Management
- Production Operations
- Well Integrity Engineering
