Our IQ per barrel needs to go up no matter the oil price! OMV Petrom operates in a mature environment, where field performance management and optimum well intervention make the difference to keep producing fields healthy or prepare for no-further-action scenarios. With oil price moving up and down, investment decisions in subsurface experience a short lifetime and can lead to mothballing of proven technologies. OMV Petrom has successfully maintained low field declines in part attributed to our advanced well stimulation techniques, which have played a pivotal role in sustaining production levels.

This presentation will outline OMV Petrom’s IQ per barrel journey on proven, probable and possible well stimulation technologies and techniques that helped flatten the production decline in a mature field environment despite depressed oil margins.

Tight gas well stimulation has a long and sporadic history in the North Sea and Europe and it is still far from being an easy development option in the current economic climate. Onshore, the pause in activity in Germany continues, but there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel, after recent new legislation has been passed. In Poland and Hungary, activity has fallen sharply, but there has been renewed interest in offshore tight gas in the Dutch and UK sectors (stranded gas). In addition to new field development, there is also potential development of tight gas horizons within existing fields.

The economics of such developments are much more attractive than standalone tight gas projects, although there are often operational issues that need to be considered. This session will examine recent developments in tight gas stimulation, both onshore and offshore, and focus on case studies. The emphasis will be building on the recent experience to push the envelope of tight gas stimulation practices.

Presentations:

1000-1030 - Fracturing update at Alwyn , Aran Ramsell, Total UK
1030-1100 - UK Sector Propped Fracturing Case Studies, Shari Channa, OPECS

Tight gas well stimulation has a long and sporadic history in the North Sea and Europe and it is still far from being an easy development option in the current economic climate. Onshore, the pause in activity in Germany continues, but there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel, after recent new legislation has been passed. In Poland and Hungary, activity has fallen sharply, but there has been renewed interest in offshore tight gas in the Dutch and UK sectors (stranded gas). In addition to new field development, there is also potential development of tight gas horizons within existing fields.

The economics of such developments are much more attractive than standalone tight gas projects, although there are often operational issues that need to be considered. This session will examine recent developments in tight gas stimulation, both onshore and offshore, and focus on case studies. The emphasis will be building on the recent experience to push the envelope of tight gas stimulation practices.

Presentations:

1130-1200 - Cygnus Fracturing (Vertical Well), Vincent Verlinden, Ithaca UK; Alexandr Mocanu, Ithaca UK
1200-1230 - UK SNS Horizontal Multi-Frac Well With Work-String Actuated Sleeves in Uncemented Liner (Dec. 2023), Andrew Boucher, Fenix Consulting Delft
1230-1300 - Recent Experience with Overdisplacement of Propped Fracs, Bogdan Bocaneala, OPECS

Chalk stimulation is the most mature of all stimulation practices in the North Sea. This session will review field stimulation techniques and results from major chalk reservoirs. Different stimulation strategies have been applied, using both acid and proppant. In this session we will focus on case histories of all these different approaches. Field design and operational issues will be discussed along with well productivity results. The discussion will also review how each operator determines the “best” stimulation technique for their reservoir. Topics in this session will include:

• Acid stimulation in multi-lateral wells with advanced completions.
• Re-stimulation challenges in horizontal wells.
• Updates on chalk stimulation from Denmark and Norway.

Presentations:

1400-1430 - Perenco Congo Acidising, Jean Gallut, Perenco
1430-1500 - Single Stage Sandstone Matrix Acidizing (West Africa Case Study), Charlotte Giraud, Total Angola
1500-1530 - Proppant vs. Acid Fracturing in North Sea Chalk Fields, Mark Norris, Various NS Operators

Increasingly, in many basins, fracturing and stimulation is chasing more challenging resources that have been previously passed over or are late-life and extremely challenging, tighter-permeability, deeper-targets, harder-rock , HPHT, subsea, etc.   Such environments challenge the fracturing and stimulation capability that the industry has to offer and often bring with them a host of new challenges which need to be taken on.  This Session will showcase some examples of such activity and demonstrate the progress that is being made.

Presentations:

1600-1630 - Chemical Consolidation of Chalk, Tony Martin, Three60 Energy Ltd
1630-1700 - Advanced Engineering Design and MSF Technologies to Deliver Trilateral Wells, Kurt Keam, Packers Plus Energy Services
1700-1730 - Propped Fracturing for Sand Control, Pedro Saldungaray, CARBO Ceramics