Workshop Abstract

Sand management has been identified as one of the key issues in the development of oil and gas fields. Industry operators are facing a number of challenges as sand production is becoming a major economical issue. Sand management is not just about selection of sand control systems—it is about maximising and maintaining production while managing sand at acceptable rates.

This workshop discusses:• Data requirements and methods used to predict when and where sand

production will occur• When to manage sand and when to exclude it• How best to work in an integrated team• Sand control equipment specifications, selection, design, installation, and

operation• Why sand control fails and how to remediate

Committee Members

Chairperson Jorge Rezende Schlumberger

Aaron J. Bonner Halliburton

Basker Murugappan Taqa E&P

Chris Kalli Chevron

Colin Jones Chevron

Colin McPhee Senergy World

Eddie Bowen Superior Completion Services

Erik Schrama Petroleum Development Oman

George Varughese Emerson

Hani Qutob Senergy World

Jeffrey Bode Resman

Mansour Shaheen Baker Hughes

Sami Akel Baker Hughes

Tracy Ballard Weatherford

Ying Huo Schlumberger

SPE Applied Technology Workshop Practical Sand Management

22–24 April 2013 | The Address Dubai Marina Hotel | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Society of Petroleum Engineers

www.spe.org/events/13adu4

Who Should Attend Professionals involved in the development, implementation, and monitoring of field sand management strategy, namely:• Asset managers• Production engineers/technologists• Completion/Well engineers• Geomechanics engineers• Reservoir and facilities engineers

Early Bird Registration Deadline:9 March 2013

WORKSHOPPractical Sand Management

Schedule Monday, 22 April 2013 0800–0830 hours Registration and Welcome Coffee0830–0840 hours Seating/Safety Briefing by Hotel and Workshop Introduction by Chairman0840–0900 hours Opening Keynote Speech

0900–1200 hours Session 1: Fundamentals of Sand Management––Know Your Enemy Session Chairs: Colin McPhee, Senergy World; Tracey Ballard, Weatherford Facilitators: Hani Qutob, Senergy World; Mansour Shaheen, Baker Hughes

Sand production and sand management are critical challenges in reservoir management and production operations. It is estimated that 70% of the world’s conventional oil and gas reserves are contained in sandstone reservoirs where sand production is likely to become a problem at some point during the life of the field. Sand production results in high removal/disposal costs, equipment erosion, and significant maintenance expenditure. Sand production issues arise at the reservoir appraisal stage, where the risk of sand production must be quantified to formulate and cost the reservoir management strategy or to satisfy regulatory authorities, and in fields where sand production has been encountered and must be economically managed. Sand production strikes with varying degrees of severity, not all of which require action with time at constant production conditions and is frequently associated with clean up after stimulation. In other cases, sand production may lead to a well becoming seriously damaged, production being killed, or surface equipment becoming seriously damaged leading to catastrophic accidents (blow out).

The goal of sand management is to limit sand production to a level acceptable to wells and facilities while maintaining economic production over the asset life. It is essential to consider all viable options to find the best sand management strategy for the asset. Key questions are:•Willmywellproducesand?Ifso,where,when,andhowmuch?•CanIlivewithsandordoIhavetoexcludeit?•IfIdon’twanttoexcludesandarethereotheroptions?•IfIhavetoexcludesand,whatistheoptimumsandcontroltechniqueformywells?

Factors controlling the onset of sand production include inherent rock strength, naturally existing earth stresses, and additional stress caused by drilling, drawdown, and depletion. The first part of the session recognises that accurate characterisation of the reservoir sand, in terms of strength and particle size variability, is the starting point for designing effective sand management strategies. This is easier said than done. Rock strength measurements are destructive and constrained by available core condition and geometry. Non-destructive strength index testing can aid in sample selection and rock strength modelling. Particle sizing is not necessarily straightforward—how doyouselectthesamplestomeasureforlabtesting?Therearecurrentlyvariousmethodsforsandretentiontesting—howvalidaretheseandhowdoyouinterprettheresults?

The second part of the session is a breakout session to discuss and define the key issues and challenges in sand management.

1200–1300 hours Luncheon and Prayers

1300–1430 hours Session 2: Sand Prediction Session Chairs: Colin Jones, Chevron; Eddie Bowen, Superior Completion Services

One of the most important factors in any practical sand management strategy is the full understanding of whether a rock will fail during the production life cycle of a well and if the failed sand will be produced. There are many tools, philosophies, techniques, and methods for understanding the failure mechanisms like 1) Empirical—testing the well 2) Analogical—use of offset well data from nearby or similar reservoir data 3) Analytical—by performing strength test on cores or deriving strength from log based correlations, and 4) Finite Element Analysis—which can predict the onset of sand production and, for some models, the volume of sand produced.

In this session, we will present some of these proven methods and techniques as well as explore newer methods of predicting sandfailuremechanisms.Howdoesthewayinwhichwedrill,complete,andproducethesewellsaffectthesefailuremodes?

1430–1500 hours Coffee Break

1500–1730 hours Session 3: Sand Management Strategies Session Chairs: Jeffrey Bode, Resman; Ying Huo, Schlumberger

This session offers a perspective of how the sand control method is chosen based on economic reservoir development. The strategy ranges from managed production of well rates to control sand production, oriented perforation, and downhole methods of controlling sand such as gravel packs and fracpacks. However, the strategies that worked in the past may not be the right solution today. Optimisation should be part of the strategy in order to find the fit-for-purpose solution. Topside equipment (sand detector, separator, and sand disposal options) will also be incorporated in this session. Hence, we will focus not only on sand management downhole but on the surface as well.

1800 hours Workshop Dinner

Tuesday, 23 April 2013 0830–0900 hours Welcome Coffee 0900–1200 hours Session 4: Sand Control Design and Selection Process Session Chairs: Eddie Bowen, Superior Completion Services; Tracey Ballard, Weatherford Facilitators: Colin Jones, Chevron; Sami Akel, Baker Hughes

Sponsorship Support

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Workshop VenueThe Address Dubai Marina HotelP.O. Box 32923, Dubai, UAE Tel: +971.4.436.7777Fax: +971.4.436.7788 Web: www.theaddress.com

Workshop Guidelines FormatThree (3) days of informal discussions prompted by selected keynote presentations and discussions. Workshops maximise the exchange of ideas among attendees and presenters through brief technical presentations followed by extended Q&A periods. Focused topics attract an informed audience eager to discuss issues critical to advancing both technology and best practices. The majority of the presentations are in the form of case studies, highlighting engineering achievements, and lessons learnt. In order to stimulate frank discussion, no proceedings are published and the press is not invited to attend.

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; however, PowerPoint presentations are most commonly used.

• Note-taking by participants is encouraged.

Breakout SessionsAttendees will be assigned to discussion groups on a random basis for the breakout sessions to maximise the opportunity to interact with other participants.

Poster SessionThe Steering Committee encourages registrations from professionals who are able to prepare and present a poster on a relevant project. For further details kindly contact Regina Alphonso at ralphonso@spe.org.

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to record the discussions and to produce the full workshop report for SPE.

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Continuing Education UnitsAttendees at this workshop qualify for SPE Continuing Education Units (CEU) at the rate of 0.1 CEU per hour of the workshop.

Now that we have a better understanding of the failure mechanisms, strategies for managing sand control, and explored the fundamentals of sand management, it is time to unravel the sand control selection and design process. As with any completion, this process has several economic and operational concerns. Some of the economic concerns include cost of sand control, potential productivity reduction/increase caused by sand control, cost and risk incurred when ignoring/using inadequate sand control including lost production. Operational concerns include, but are not limited to expected well life, complexity of the completion, and environmental and safety concerns.

It is the proper evaluation of each of these concerns which will direct us to the right sand control solution for each application. Despite advances in technology there is a tendency to stick to conventional, tried and tested techniques rather than try anything new. We will take a look at the various technological solutions available and how each of these solutions is selected based on the concerns at hand.

Proper sand control completions, installation, and design techniques should lead to reduced production costs and should consider the following points:•Provideefficientsandretention•Minimisecostandtime•Designforwelllifetominimiseworkoversandinterventions•Havealargeboretomaximisethecapabilityforfutureselectivecompletions

1200–1300 hours Luncheon and Prayers

1300–1430 hours Session 5: Practical Implementation Session Chairs: Aaron J. Bonner, Halliburton; Jorge Rezende, Schlumberger

Sand production presents a major economical challenge to the industry and has a variety of different approaches and systematic solutions. Operators are constantly seeking the most economical solution which has to balance operational costs and well productivity.

Normally the common approach for those problems is kept within the scope of a project due to its complexity and costs. Solutions are available throughout the industry and sometimes more than one approach can be used for a specific sand production issue. The implementation of any solution is very complex and needs to address several interfaces and different levels of reservoir and production information. For the successful management of those projects, seeking the optimum solution requires a great effort from several groups in the industry. The objective of this session is to describe tools and processes which can lead to the implementation of different sand management methods.

1430–1500 hours Coffee Break

1500–1700 hours Session 6: Life Cycle Management. Session Chairs: Chris Kalli, Chevron; Erik Schrama, Petroleum Development Oman

Sand management doesn’t stop after the wells have been completed and the surface facilities have been commissioned. For the entire lifetime of the field, sand needs to be managed proactively. This session addresses operating practices that have proven to be successful in extending run life of and minimising production upsets related to sand production.

Wednesday, 24 April 20130830–0900 hours Welcome Coffee

0900–1200 hours Session 7: Topside Sand Management Session Chairs: Basker Murugappan, Taqa E&P; George Varughese, Emerson

Topside sand management or surface sand management has the same key objectives which are:•Transportingsandwithoutdepositioninthesurfacesystem•Erosionalconstraintsofsandtransportandmonitoring•RemovalanddisposalofsandwithsurfaceequipmentThe goal here is to reduce the downhole sand control system and to allow the wells to produce and remove sand to surface. This will remove the downhole complexity of sand control installations and more importantly remove a major portion of the downhole pressure drops which in turn would increase well productivity.

A majority of these problems is directly related to our basic mindset of surface sand management. In general topside facilities have a base case of no sand production at surface. 90% of topsides are initially designed with none or very little sand production from the wells. It is difficult to break down or change this mindset.In recent years, new technologies have been used to address a number of these issues. However, there has been no concerted effort to develop a full topside management system using the newer monitoring, evaluations, and sand removal technologies.

Topside sand management has almost the same productivity value (or more value) as downhole sand management and yet it has had very little or no focus from the sand control industry.This session will attempt to connect the dots between equipment and monitoring software to show how to set up a surface sand management system. 1200–1300 hours Luncheon and Prayers

1300–1500 hours Session 8: Well Intervention and Sand Remediation Session Chairs: Aaron J. Bonner, Halliburton; Erik Schrama, Petroleum Development Oman; Sami Akel, Baker Hughes

In this interactive session, the workshop attendees are asked to participate in a discussion and share experiences on well interventions related to sand management. Possible discussion topics are: retrofitting downhole sand control, sand clean outs in low pressure wells, workovers to remove and install another form of sand control, etc.

1500–1520 hours Closing Keynote Speech

1520–1600 hours Workshop Closing Remarks by Chairman

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