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bin ute bya scker Pormaran que gone asin thin 7 hin ain ‘tote OF pacer Nog ow tron ‘snare se! ase tein 7 Jain xn steps GP pacar Nogetow-tvouh neti a ae Peranan quae gine kin Te: sthin a einai Stee OF pacer Nogetow-trowh neti ae Porraran quar gone kin TC in. casing soe The plan. Theo gravo-pack (GI intervals in the User 328 well wore commingled whi dowrholetuhingretrevabie flow eontel(TAFC) valves an¢ sensors provided conto! and ‘monitoring ofeach individual one Currently, four reservoirs are being produeed in ‘the shallow group, 10 in the intermediate and ‘wo in the deep, ‘2001, seven new reservoirs were discovered In the Graben area of the Usari fled by a near- Winter 2007/2008, Nonialle Sls asco) ‘son norte Foning ubing hand press 7OOp 2 Rosen tmperre z Fase esa & 3 \aapostcn » Understanding control. Comminging muta production zones requires ‘hat enginers precisoly design downhole flow contol chokes and have a ‘4004 understanding of the effects ofeach zone upon the others. The beige ‘ogionin the above graph depicts th expected conributon from Zone T-US1G ‘when stepping the Sin. flow contra valve through its 11 predeters ‘choke postions. This is modeled wit vals in bath other zones, {purplel and $-US16 (pin uly open and producing according jnd box within the greph. The graph shows that total wall production vases for about $80 obi [1,557 mf to 10,700 Bb [1,700 of id ‘while lowing the midale ane lower zones on fully open chokes and stopping {he 7-USIG zone valve from ful closed through tofuly open poston. ‘Sensitity on 7-US16 production is eround 500 bbs [78 m/s) por choke stop In accordance with the accuracy required forthe contol of patencisl water and gas production. The 8-USIG contributes the marty of production in this ‘simulation due tits reservoir pressure ane estimated productivity index (Pl) of SO bbliss-d [1.15 aKa) fel wildcat. Due to shallow gas that mas the slsmle urination ofthe area, confidence was low in the structural configuration away from the area with well control, eas therefore necessary ‘to mitigate, as much as posible, the uncertain- ties of potential reservoir compartmentalization, resent areal exlent and reservoir deliverability Defore committing to additional platforms to cept the find. ‘To do so, Schlumberger and MPN engineers rill 15,000-oot [4,572], extonded-reach woll—Usari Well 2B—with an 8620-0 [2072], TSdegroe stepout from an existing platform. The well rossed three of the soven reservoirs in an attempt to answer operator concerns regarding reservir deliverability and producing characteristics. onal isolation along ‘the wellbore is provided through 9a. by Tin by 6:in. stepbore gravel-pack packers and a sees of concentric seal assemblies inthe Bn, packer bore." Two similar completions in diferent reservoirs are planned to help address the geological uncertainties of compartmental- laation and areal extent (above el) ‘The plan, to commingle three gravel-pack Intervals while controlling and monitaring each zone individually, has the added attraction of potentially saving one well or evry three dried, sino a singe such well ean produee three zones ‘versus two in more traditional completions Regulations prohibit commingling in Nigeria, However, enginoors wore able to avereome this prohibition by demonstrating othe salistaction of ‘the Nigerian Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) hat indireet flow measurements Interpreted from downbole pressure and tom perature data could be combined with routine zonal tests to bain production backealloeation Authorities were further assured of the Schemes efficacy by the fact that data are delivered ireetly to engineers’ desks through the erACT system Asa result, MPN was granted an exemption allowing three reservoirs to be commingled ‘through 9/in, rave-pack completions, each one ‘equipped with vuriable-setting chokes and pressure and temperature sensors. The two lower ‘chokes are nine-postion (ineuding filly open And fully closed) valves with maximum 2/in equivalent flow areas (above right). The third ‘valve isan L1-position valve regulating aeross the 1B 000 000 ‘2000 200 a0 ‘oan oo 00 sau +0 ‘000 200 1000 Estate rage ns ‘008 06 ° Prot af th fist sx months of production from the Usari 328 well ‘open, Inflow performance relationship [a alot mSUsS maUNS MTUNE Bees e¢3 g Bees eee 5 Bs 8 e235 5 bate wol production rat ns na hs nas Allow contol valves ace fully against lowing botomhole pressure} curves generated from wel testing were used to calculate indwiual zone flow rates. The pot shows that production from the upper 7-USIG zone [red} is dominant with a P of around Sa bbVps-

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