Vol. 59 No. 1
January 2007
Well Intervention and Control
Well-Intervention Challenges To Service Wells That Can Be Drilled
Drilling rigs continually are setting new records in measured-depth (MD) vs.
true-vertical-depth (TVD) ratios, horizontal-section lengths, and delivering
operationally complex completions. Common well-intervention technologies may
have difficulty fulfilling the intervention needs of the wells that can be and
are being drilled and completed. The full-length paper presents an overview of
available well-intervention technology, outlines limitations of each
technology, and offers case histories from challenging interventions performed
in Alaska.
View a
Synopsis of SPE 100172.
