Abstract: 
Parallel with the increase of high angle drilling, the oil and gas industry has experienced an increase in new intervention technologies to address problems in high angle wells.  Since the advent of the downhole tractor 15 years ago, tractor associated technologies, such as milling, cleaning and hydraulic stroking have come of age and are being applied in all ranges of deviation, including vertical and inverted wells.  The benefits from these rigless, light well interventions is mainly reduced cost and less HSE risk but it can also be demonstrated that light well interventions enable improved reservoir recovery.  The literature has examples of benefits from light well interventions in offshore platform wells and in unconventional reservoirs but no where is it more impacting than in subsea wells, where the recovery is 25% - 35% less than land or platform wells.  The single reason for this difference is that subsea wells have less interventions.   Globally, there are approximately 5000 subsea wells and the trend is increasing driven by economics as water depths get deeper.   This trend has forced well operators to examine more cost effective solutions to maintain these wells and improve their recoveries. The successful application of light well intervention technology over the past 10 years is seen by many operators as an important milestone in the inevitable growth of their subsea developments and in the ambition to have the subsea recoveries approach the recoveries of land and platform wells. 

This talk will be an operational perspective on the state of light intervention technology available in the industry and how it is changing the way some operators design their wells for 'intelligent' interventions by making them more intervention friendly.  It will also discuss the merits of integrating more contingency planning into subsea, intelligent and unconventional wells based on the current track record of light well intervention experience within the industry.
    

Biography: 
Brian is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Applied Geophysics and has worked in the oil field service industry for the past 34 years, having spent 25 years with Schlumberger.   He joined Welltec in 2002 as GM for the USA, where in six years, the US business grew from a single location into 8 operating bases with over 80 employees.  After two years as VP of Global Sales and Marketing at the company headquarters in Denmark, he took the position of Welltec’s VP of Latin America and now is VP of Global Accounts. 

Brian has 30 years as an SPE member, 16 published SPE papers and trade journal articles.  He is currently in his 9th year on the international board of ICoTA (Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association), now serving as vice chairman and was lead co-chair of the 2011 Annual SPE/ICOTA conference in the Woodlands.

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