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UFR: Drilling and Production
Outlines
Introduction
Why Underbalanced drilling
Under balance types
UBD Design consideration
UBD Equipment
Advantages & disadvantages of UBD
Poor candidates of UBD
Good candidates of UBD
Introduction
Underbalanced drilling is an activity employing appropriate equipment
- Damage reservoir
- Formation/fluid or fluid/fluid sensitivity
- Well with low borehole stability (Poor consolidated formations)
- Well with multiple zone pressure differential
UBD Equipment
Rotary control device (RCD)
- If tripping in is underbalanced
Separation system
UBD Equipment
Advantages of UBD
Reduce or eliminate formation damage
Reduce or eliminate lost circulation
Increase rate of penetration
Permits real time reservoir investigation
No differential sticking
Increased well productivity
Disadvantages of UBD
drawdown.
Steeply dipping/fractured formation in tectonically active areas.
H2S bearing formations.
Multiple reservoirs open with different pressures.
Isolated locations with poor supplies.
Formation with a high likelihood of corrosion.
The end