JPT

Vol. 58 No. 4

April 2006

Offshore Drilling and Completion

Economic and Operational Benefits of Drill-Through Completion Technologies

The drill-through completion concept revolves around the principle that substantial cost savings can be realized by installing the subsea horizontal tree before running the blowout preventer (BOP) stack, thus eliminating one BOP stack round trip. Drilling operations are performed through the subsea horizontal tree. Additional cost savings can be achieved in a batch-drilling and -completion program by reducing the number of required rig moves and BOP-stack trips.

View a Synopsis of OTC 17405.

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper OTC 17405, "Economic and Operational Benefits of Drill-Through Completion Technologies," by M. Matusek, S. Stjernstrom, and D. Theiss, Cooper Cameron Corp., prepared for the 2005 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 2-5 May. Copyright 2005 Offshore Technology Conference. Reproduced by permission. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

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