West Seno The First Deepwater Field in Indonesia A Strategy To Optimize Reserves Tatang Heri Robert Mathers R. Andrew Mccarty
West Seno The First Deepwater Field in Indonesia A Strategy To Optimize Reserves Tatang Heri Robert Mathers R. Andrew Mccarty
West Seno The First Deepwater Field in Indonesia A Strategy To Optimize Reserves Tatang Heri Robert Mathers R. Andrew Mccarty
Tatang Heri*
Robert Mathers*
R. Andrew McCarty*
western, down-thrown side of this fault block (West EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY AND
Seno). APPRAISAL
twenty-eight (28) “dry tree” wells; the Floating This ‘living’ depletion plan incorporates an initial
Production Unit (FPU), which processes the well subsurface view (Fig. 7, Process 1) of each reservoir
streams from the TLP into stabilized gas, oil and sand to be developed. The subsurface reservoir
overboard produced water; a 12”, 150 MMcf/d architecture was defined from seismic interpretation
dense phase gas pipeline and a 12”, 68,000 bopd oil and an in-place oil and gas volumes associated with
pipeline to Chevron’s Santan Terminal (Fig. 6). each target sand will be a volumetric calculation
calculated from seismically derived Gross Rock
Volume, log derived porosity, net-to-gross, fluid
RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION contacts and the appropriate fluid expansion factors
from a West Seno PVT model.
The West Seno field comprises nearly 50
independent compartmentalized hydrocarbon An optimum development strategy and associated
reservoirs within 14 stratigraphic sequences production forecast and reserves figure are
spanning three fault blocks. Some of these generated from dynamic reservoir simulation
reservoirs are large reservoirs with 15 to 30 modeling in the larger major horizons and by
MMSTB and 20 to 80 BSCF in place; others are application of analogue recovery factors for smaller
quite small. Six of these sand packages are sands.
materially more significant than the rest. These six
packages have been designated as Main Reservoirs Drilling and logging of development wells provided
and include the Seno 5 upthrown reservoirs, the the first integrated opportunity to update reserves
Seno 30 upthrown reservoir the Seno 30 and production forecasts (Fig. 7, process 2) by tying
downthrown reservoir, the Seno 60 downthrown geological horizons to seismic and updating logged
ER49 reservoir unit, the Seno 60 upthrown ER50 fluid contacts and reservoir properties.
reservoir unit, and the Seno 70 upthrown reservoir.
All other sands are considered as Minor Reservoirs As production data were acquired and the field wide
surveillance program was implemented (Fig. 7,
Main Reservoirs account for 80% of the field’s Process 3) the production forecast was developed
reserve balance. Within this group, the Seno 60 by decline curve analysis. Initially in-place HC
upthrown ER50 reservoir stands out as being the volumes (in pressure communication with the
largest with nearly 21% of estimated field reserves. producing well) were also generated from reservoir
pressure monitoring and material balance analysis.
SUBSURFACE WORKFLOW AND
INTEGRATION PROCESS The surveillance program for West Seno involves
routinely running wire line retrievable electronic
Twenty-eight development wells in West Seno are memory pressure gauges into each of the producing
targeting series of Upper Miocene stacked channel wells. The gauges run have an approximate 3 month
sand reservoirs. There are 10 horizontal wells battery powered (P & T) recording window while
completed with ~ 1,000 feet of wire-wrapped screen inside the well. Planned Flowing Buildup surveys
placed in horizontal open-hole intervals draining the (FBU) are run as required and typically involve at
larger reservoir sands and 18 vertical or deviated least one survey in each well per year and at least 3
wells with perforated cased-hole and frac-pack surveys in any particular producing reservoir sand
completions developing the smaller reservoir sands. per year. The surveillance plan also enables the
The general development plan invokes a ‘bottoms capture of un-planned well shut-ins and is
up’ plug-back-and-complete strategy in wells that consequently continually updated and optimized so
penetrate multiple stacked sands spanning depths as to ensure sufficient survey data is acquired from
from approximately 6,300 feet to 9,150 feet TVDss. each well and reservoir sand to maintain an up-to
date depletion plan and associated well work
Consequently, wells have primary bottomhole schedule.
targets and multiple secondary uphole targets.
Figure 7 represents a cyclical work flow process Pressure data from the FBU surveys was analyzed
(Processes 1 to 4) to optimize the development of and interpreted to provide average reservoir
reserves form each of the targeted sands. The pressure, effective reservoir permeability,
depletion plan remains flexible and is a ‘living completion efficiency (skin), reservoir architecture
plan’, open to update and optimization cycles (distance to boundaries) and an estimate of aquifer
throughout the producing life of the field. strength.
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conserving gas cap drive energy. Simulation from the detailed work program sequencing of each
modeling studies concluded an optimum cumulative procedural step of a well work-over or well drilling
production would be reached in early 2008, and by operation. Well cut off production rates are dictated
initiating subsequent gas cap blow down revenues by flow assurance concerns (hydrates and/ or
would be optimized. paraffin deposition) for HC liquids (~150 bopd) and
an economic cut off of ~ 1.0 MMscf/d is used for
Flow Assurance gas.
West Seno has multiple flow assurance issues. In Sanding studies and operational performance
addition to poorly sorted and unconsolidated indicate that all reservoir sands shallow to and
reservoir formation sand with a propensity for sand including the Seno-60 are relatively unconsolidated,
production. West Seno condensate has a high wax friable and prone to sand production. Sand control
appearance temperature resulting in routine wax completion strategies including orientated
cutting operations in some producing wells. perforation, expandable sand screen, Wire-Wrap
Carboxylic acid soap emulsions are produced from Screen (WWS) or sand control technology have
various reservoirs, emulsions are fortified with a effectively prevented sand production without
high solids/ fines production loading and aggravate significant loss of well productivity and are
oil and water separation facility capabilities. consequently planned for all future completions in
Emulsions are controlled with on site production appropriate sands where the estimated reserves
chemical treatment. Field testing and optimization justify for completion expense.
of production chemistry is continuously required as
the composition of comingled produced fluids
change with changing reservoir sand combinations Workover/Recompletion Planning
from 28 development wells. The deepwater
environment also results in a hydrate formation risk A schedule of planned well work for the West Seno
at the mud line (~40 deg F) of each of the wells. development is required in order to implement the
The hydrate risk is increased in low rate low water development plan as a sequence of operational work
cut wells and is mitigated with a combination of in the field. The schedule translates the bottom-up
downhole methanol injection, bull heading wells development plan to maintain recovery of reserves
with an inert oil (Saralene) and in the event of and to avoid premature shut-in of production from
hydrate plugging; drilling out with Coiled Tubing. the completion preceding the well scheduled
workover work, optimized timetable of work on
specific wells, identifies the equipment required for
WORKOVER/RECOMPLETION STRATEGY a specific operational activity and attempts to
effectively and efficiently campaign work requiring
Project Schedule methodology the same equipment such as snubbing unit, wire line
or coil tubing to optimize logistical and
The nature and description of well work are defined mobilization costs. The current campaign schedule
by the field development plan and have been is likely accurate with respect to timing and
determined by reservoir simulation studies in the development strategy for the upcoming work.
major reservoir sands and on an opportunity basis However, uncertainty inherently increases with
constrained by ~100 acre well spacing in the minor time, resulting in potential modification of longer
sands. The start of well work timing is determined term scheduling as a result of observed (actual) well
by: performance and surveillance data from future well
completions.
• Production performance decline curve analysis
of existing completions to evaluate the likely As a result of depletion schedule, all wells within ~
date for the end of production from an active 50 independent compartmentalized hydrocarbon
completion. reservoirs within 14 stratigraphic sequences
• Forecast production performance from spanning three fault blocks with ‘bottom-up’ plug
analytical simulation modeling for completions back and complete strategy to fully develop all
yet to be activated and without any production reservoirs, well abandonment sequence was
history. indentified and slots become available for future
CRD/ERD well development. Without CRD/ERD
The duration of well work operations and the project development the West Seno field is
associated production online date are determined estimated to be abandoned in year 2014
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Coiled Tubing & Wire Line Work Operations statistics and internal feasibility studies of the ERD
concept suggest that this approach is a viable
The coiled tubing and wire line work operation are alternative to develop additional reserves at West
applicable to wells that do not require a full Seno (Fig. 10).
workover with the pulling of production tubing and
completion packer assemblies (i.e. scenarios in The redrill program proposed at West Seno Field
which the completion interval to be accessed is was part of the development strategy employed to
deeper than the completion packer and not isolated produce undeveloped reserves. The program also
from production). Therefore, a hydraulic workover provides valuable information regarding the size of
unit is not necessary for this type of operation and the undeveloped reservoirs. The redrill campaign
work may be conducted through tubing by C/T and consists of 11 redrilled wells from the TLP-A
or W/L services alone. C/T is selected for platform, with 8 of these wells employing extended
operations in wells with trajectory deviation > 70 reach drilling (ERD) technology, and 3 wells using
degs from vertical and in situations where pumping conventional reach drilling (CRD) technology.
of fluid is required (hydraulic powered C/T drilling
& well clean out operations). The 8 proposed redrill candidates were chosen
based on identifying drilling opportunities from
The planned well work to be carried out in these geophysical and geological mapping, and available
campaigns is restricted to the following operations: slots from a review of the living plan of existing
wells. These redrill targets are integrated to the
• W/L plug back and/or through tubing living plan and have been prioritized by economic
perforation value, slot availability, and value of information.
• C/T plug back and/or through tubing Risks associated with these wells, including
perforation geological risk and drilling risk are incorporated
• C/T drilling of hydrate/ paraffin plug or sand into the economic value and selection criteria.
bridge Figure 11 shows a 3D view of the HC portion of the
• C/T clean (wash) out of sand fill tanks targets in the redrill program.
• C/T Through Tubing Internal Gravel Pack
(TTGP) The West Seno drilling campaign plans to drill a
total of eleven (11) wells in 2010 and 2011. Three
Frac Pack Workovers conventional reach drilling (CRD) wells will be
drilled together with eight extended reach drilling
Sanding studies and operational performance to date (ERD) wells. All these CRD-ERD wells
have indicated that all reservoir sands shallow to development will utilize slots from abandoned wells
and including the Seno-60 are relatively on the existing TLP.
unconsolidated, friable and prone to sand
production. The timing of the drilling campaign is dictated by
Completed Frac-Pack works over operations have well performance and the availability of drilling
been successfully implemented. Historically, West slots. Wells are planned to be sidetracked from a
Seno Frac Pack completions have effectively point shallow to the 13-3/8” Csg shoe in existing
prevented sand production without significant loss well bores that have been abandoned from
of well productivity and are consequently planned production service in the existing development.
for all future completions in appropriate sands
where the estimated reserves justify the Frac-Pack The continuous development of the West Seno
completion expense. Field will utilize Extended Reach Drilling (“ERD”)
Work is continuously conducted to evaluate Technology. Successful deployment of this
alternative and potential cost efficient sand control technology will open access to significant numbers
completion strategies, including orientated of reserves that would otherwise be stranded and be
perforation and expandable sand screen unrecovered. Successful execution of ERD greatly
technologies. improves the profitability of the West Seno field
and extends the commercial life through 2017 (Fig.
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT TARGETS 12).
The Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) concept is A total of 11 redrills are planned - three CRD
proposed to target reserves that haven’t been redrills and eight ERD redrills with the majority of
developed by conventional methods. Industry the wells targeting single reservoirs. Two of the
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reservoirs – S-05 upthrown and S-60 ER49 have • Constraining production by regulating choke
areal extents broad enough to require more than a size for critical water-cut, gas oil ratio, and sand
single ERD well. Additionally, two of the ERD production threshold, managing gas lift rate,
wells have dual objectives, and both of the targeted and chemical of flow assurance control
reservoirs will initially be completed.
• Fit for purpose recompletion/workover West Seno Team, 2008, Revised Plan of
operations selecting coil tubing, wire line or Development, Jakarta
snubbing unit
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BRUNEI
MALAYSIA
MALAYSI A
KALIM ANTAN
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3D Year Area, km2
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WS 3D 2002 Survey
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0 5 10Km
W S-6
West Seno 4 365’
365’ 115’
115’ 480’
480’
W S-2
W S-1
West Seno 5 63’
63’ 141’
141’ 204’
204’
CS-2
W S-7
W S-4
West Seno 6 82’
82’ 19’
19’ 101’
101’
SS-1
* Based on pre-
pre-drill petrophysical model
Seno-60
Seno-60 Seno-60
9000
7600
West Seno-4
Core #1
1 Cut f/ 7585’-7687’md
Rec. 90’ (88%)
Seno-60 Base
Seno-60 Base Seno-60 Base
Seno-60 9200
Seno-60
Seno-60 2 Core #2
7800
Cut f/ 7687’-7867’md
Seno-70
Seno-70
Seno-70 Rec. 135’ (75%)
9400
8000
Seno-70 Base
Seno-70 Base Seno-70 Base
Seno-60 Base
Seno-60 Base Seno-60 Base
West Seno-1
9600 1 Core #1
Seno-70
Seno-70 Cut f/ 9507’- 9688’md
Seno-70
8200
Seno-82 Base
Seno-82 Base Seno-82 Base
Core #4
10000 4 Seno-90
Cut f/ 8477’- 8659’md
Seno-90 8600 Seno-90
Rec. 182’ (100%)
Seno-80
Seno-80 Seno-80
Seno-90 Base
Seno-90 Base
Seno-90 Base Core #5
5 Cut f/ 8659’- 8842’md
10200
Seno-80 Base
Seno-80 Base
Seno-80 Base 8800 Rec. 183’ (100%)
Seno-94
Seno-94 Seno-94
Seno-94 Base
Seno-94 Base Seno-94 Base
10400
9000
Seno-100
Seno-100 Seno-100
10488 9073
WS-4 [SSTVD]
MD SSTVD 0.00 UGAMMA 150.00 0.20 UDEEP 20.00
6187 6076
S5
S5 S5
6500
6500
S30
7000
S30 S30
S60 S60
7000
W S-2
W S-1 S70-2 S70
S70-2 S70-2
S70-4
S70-4 S70-4
CS-2
8000
S70-6
S70-6 S70-6
W S-7
W S-4
8000
8500
W S-5 S90
S90 S90
S94
S94 S94
8500
W S-8
9000
S100
S100 S100
S102
S102 S102
S104
S104 S104
SS-1
9000
9500
S106
S106 S106
SS-2
10000
Figure 5 - Seno Four-way faulted structure Map, Seno 70 Stratigraphic Zone and Type Log
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Drilling Rig
Drilling Tender
Drilling Tender
TLP-A
FPU
60Km flowlines to
West Seno Phase 1 Santan and Bontang terminals
STOIIP
&
Update GIIP RF: (simulation/ analogue)
1
Revised static
Model
Reserves &
4 Forecast
2
FBU Surveys
Reservoir
MAT. BAL. Production
surveillance
DCA
& production
monitoring
3
Figure 8 - Horizontal Well Performance with Wire Wrap Screen (WWS) Completion
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TLP-A
e.g. WS-8
10
Kilometers
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Bangka Field
( Rapak PSC )
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Extend
Commercial Life
2014 2017
Time
Figure 12 - Extend Filed Commercial