About this Workshop

Workshop Description

Maintaining well integrity from well construction through abandonment has become a major concern for operators worldwide. The maintenance of an increasingly aging wellstock and the higher cost associated with new wells makes well integrity a critical element of asset lifecycle management.

Subsea, HPHT, acid gas and geological complex reservoirs create significant challenges for establishing and maintaining well integrity during drilling, completion, and production. Factors such as wellbore instability, corrosion, cement bond deterioration, expansion/contraction, and changing pressure envelopes to name a few all contribute to compromised well integrity. Consequently, flow assurance throughout the life of an asset can only be achieved with an effective integrity management system.

Assessing the integrity of existing wellbores is crucial for optimizing productivity and adding value. Through careful well design, continuous monitoring, and re-use of existing wellbores, the life of wells can be extended, operating costs reduced and reliability improved.

Workshop Focus and Objectives

This Applied Technology Workshop will provide excellent networking opportunities for sharing of latest technologies and its deployment, applications and best practices. Among the topics and issues to be discussed are:

• Understanding of well integrity in different phases in operations.
• Latest information on well design, construction, completion and abandonment.
• New developments and experiments.
• Best practices and current knowledge of well integrity management.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The intended audience of this Workshop is engineers who are involved in well construction, drilling, completion, production, well intervention and safety. The workshop hopes to attract a balanced mix of disciplines to enhance the exchange of information, ideas and technologies.

Participants will be encouraged to present their case histories (successes, failures and lessons learnt) and other experiences for discussion.

We are currently seeking for volunteers to serve as discussion leaders. For further information, please contact the SPE Asia Pacific Office at tel. +60.3.2288.1233, fax +60.3.2282.1220 or e-mail spekl@spe.org.

Documentation

• Proceedings will not be published; therefore, formal papers and handouts are not expected from speakers.
• Work in progress, new ideas, and interesting projects are sought.
• Professionally-prepared visual aids are not required; handwritten viewgraphs are entirely acceptable.
• Note-taking by participants is encouraged. However, to ensure free and open discussions, no formal records will be kept.

Workshop Deliverables

• The committee will prepare a full report containing the highlights of the Workshop discussions. This report will be circulated to all attendees. A one-page summary will be prepared by the Workshop Co-Chairperson, which will be posted on the SPE Web Site, and published in the Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT), if space permits. The copyright of the summary report will belong to SPE.
• PowerPoint presentation materials will be posted on a specific SPE URL address after the Workshop. Provision of the materials by the discussion leaders will signify their permission for SPE to do so.

Commercialism

In keeping with ATW objectives and the SPE mission, excessive commercialism in posters or presentations will not be permitted. Company logos must be limited to the title slide and used only to indicate the affiliation of the presenter and others involved in the work.

Attendance Certificate

All attendees will receive an attendance certificate attesting to their participation at the Workshop. This certificate will be provided in exchange for a completed Workshop Questionnaire.

Continuing Education Units

This Workshop qualifies for SPE Continuing Education Units (CEU) at the rate of 0.1 CEU per hour of the ATW.