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Utilizing Ultra-deep Resistivity Mapping in a Mature Oil Field of Kuwait: Eliminating Pilot Well and Achieving Effective Arrival in Sweet Formation, Case Study

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Last updated: 01 Feb 2025

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The biggest sand-stone oil-field in the world is the Great Burgan reservoir, which has been in development and production since the 1930s with a surface area approximately 1000 km2. It consists of three oil fields (Burgan, Magwa, and Ahmadi). These reservoirs were discovered in Feb. 1938. Traditionally, it developed using directional oil wells. Instead of using deviated wells historically, a recent project has been started to use horizontal wells to extract of the upper Burgan - 3 (UB-3) formation unit. Typically, a pilot well is necessary to recognize producing layers and the depth of the oil water contact (OWC), that needs to be prevented in the horizontal portion. Eliminating the pilot well would help reduce the cost and the time of development. The azimuthal ultra-deep resistivity mapping technique (UDR) has demonstrated its ability to reduce the necessary for pilot wells by mapping reservoir boundaries and OWC in real-time, earlier than conventional methods. This allows for real time geosteering to locate the well in one drilling run in the productive zone. It also aids in reducing non-productive time by simplifying the process of stopping drilling and set the casing directly above a target zone, and in optimizing potential well planning in field development. An economic study conducted on offset wells indicated encouraging possibility from the application of this method in the Upper Burgan 3 (UB-3). The application of this technique reduced the delivery time to 10.39 days, which in turn saves costs of about 894000 USD$,...

DOI

10.21608/jpme.2024.313692.1213

Keywords

Reservoir Mapping, Ultra-Deep Resistivity Mapping, Logging While Drilling, Mature Field, Geosteering

Authors

First Name

Naser

Last Name

AlHajri

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Head of the Department Department of Petroleum Engineering PAAET Kuwait

Email

naseralhajri@hotmail.com

City

Kuwait

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0009-0003-2772-9969

First Name

Ali Dawood

Last Name

Al Khaldy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Team Leader, Drilling Department Kuwait Oil Company

Email

adkhaldy@kockw.com

City

Kuwait

Orcid

-

First Name

Jassim

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Team Leader, Drilling Department Kuwait Oil Company

Email

jmhassan@kockw.com

City

Kuwait

Orcid

-

First Name

Reham

Last Name

Dashti

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Sr. Drilling Engineer Drilling Department Kuwait Oil Company

Email

radashti@kockw.com

City

Kuwait

Orcid

-

First Name

Abdulaziz

Last Name

Ahmed Hassan

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Sr Drilling Engineer Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait

Email

abahassan@kockw.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Nitin

Last Name

Rane

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Senior Geologist Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait

Email

nrane@kockw.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ebraheem

Last Name

Al-Duraia

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Geologist Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait

Email

eduraia@kockw.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Khalid

Last Name

Bojarahs

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Senior Petrophysicist Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait

Email

kbojarah@kockw.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Anandan

Last Name

Mudavakkat

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Senior Geophysicist Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait

Email

amudavakkat@kockw.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Khalid

Last Name

Ali Al-Hindi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Team Leader Technical Support Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait

Email

kaalhindi@kockw.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Tarek Fathy

Last Name

Al-Attar

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Drilling & Workover Technical Services Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait

Email

tattar@kockw.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Nadir

Last Name

Farhi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Drilling Engineer Solution Manager Halliburton Kuwait

Email

nadir.farhi@halliburton.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Alexander

Last Name

Kharitonov

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Well Placement Lead Halliburton Kuwait

Email

alexander.kharitonov@halliburton.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Samie

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Country Manager Halliburton Kuwait

Email

mohamed.samie@halliburton.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Benjamin

Last Name

Clarion

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Technical Advisor Halliburton Kuwait

Email

benjamin.clarion@halliburton.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Anar

Last Name

Abdulkarim

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Petrophysicist Halliburton Kuwait

Email

alaa.radwan@halliburton.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

26

Article Issue

2

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41524

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-10-06

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

28

Page End

36

Print ISSN

1110-6506

Online ISSN

2682-3292

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JPME_Volume 26_Issue 2_Pages 28-36.pdf

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Utilizing Ultra-deep Resistivity Mapping in a Mature Oil Field of Kuwait: Eliminating Pilot Well and Achieving Effective Arrival in Sweet Formation, Case Study

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