Day 1 - Society of Petroleum Engineers

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SPE TODAY
Around the Exhibit Floor
A roundup of technology being showcased at this year’s ATCE
New Schlumberger Scanner
Offers Continuous Logs Onsite
The Schlumberger Litho Scanner is the
latest member of the scanner family of
wireline tools providing formation and
reservoir data at the wellsite.
With its accurate mineralogical
description and total organic
carbon (TOC) determination,
the measurement is perfect for
evaluation of unconventional
reservoirs. Its standalone
quantitative determination of TOC
is independent of the environment
and the reservoir. Replacing
indeterminate TOC estimations
caused by variations in methodologies
and attempts to combine log and
laboratory information, the new
measurement provides a continuous
log at the wellsite of elemental
concentration as well as accurate
mineralogical determination.
Using sCore lithofacies classification,
operators can determine optimal
completion intervals from a
combination of mineralogy, TOC
concentration, and in-situ stress values.
Booth 1735.
Pheno Seal, Super-Sweep
Provide Wellbore Remedies
Forta Corporation’s Pheno Seal is a
lost-circulation material that is made
from waste-stream high-density
laminate. The seal flakes provide an
efficient shape and a hard, durable
backbone that functions as a bridging
agent to control fracture losses. It can
be used in all water, oil, and syntheticbased
fluids.
Forta’s Super-Sweep fiber is a
hole-cleaning agent for suspending
and transporting solids from the
wellbore. The fiber is an alternative
to conventional gels and polymers for
cleaning the cuttings or millings from
a wellbore when drilling or milling. A
small concentration of fiber added to
any drilling fluid will suspend, lift, and
collect wellbore debris. Booth 442.
Diffusion Bonding Strengthens
Mesh and Creates Laminates
G Bopp sintered (diffusion-bonded)
wire mesh sintering combines multiple
layers to provide structural strength
to an otherwise flimsy fine mesh
or to create laminates with specific
physical properties.
Sintering takes place in a controlledatmosphere
furnace with some
degree of isostatic pressure and
bonds all wire crossover points within
a single layer. Sintered wire cloths
produced this way yield fine filtration
results and are also resistant to
physical loading, thanks to the robust
mesh structure.
Bopp can sinter any combination
of mesh together to achieve physical
properties such as mechanical
strength, controlled permeability,
porosity, thickness, absolute aperture
size, filter fineness, flow rate, and
backwash properties. Booth 1334.
Weatherford Uses RFID
To Actuate Downhole Tools
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
technology has been used successfully
The RipTide RFID reamer is one
of the pieces of radio frequency
identification technology that
Weatherford has on display during
the exhibition. Photo courtesy of
Weatherford.
for many years. Weatherford was
an early pioneer of this technology
in common oilfield applications to
actuate downhole tools electronically.
With the recent acquisition of
Petrowell, the company has expanded
its portfolio of RFID capabilities
and has broad intellectual property
for the downhole application of
this technology.
RFID technology is used to activate
downhole tools, track assets, and
enhance completions operations. The
technology helps improve reservoir
management by optimizing well design
and performance. Additionally, RFID
allows multiple tools to be run in the
drillstring and activated or deactivated
on demand, providing opportunities
to improve borehole integrity to
planned depth.
Weatherford is displaying several
of its RFID-enabled technologies,
including the RipTide RFID reamer,
which has been applied in various
operations worldwide. Booth 1951.
XML-Based Standards Simplify
Upstream Data Management
The Energistics Consortium’s PRODML,
WITSML, and RESQML provide
standard XML-based data exchange
standards for upstream operations.
Production Markup Language
(PRODML) is the consortium’s initiative
for open, nonproprietary, standard
interfaces between software tools
used to monitor, manage, and optimize
hydrocarbon production in the modern
digital oilfield.
PRODML enables near-real-time
production optimization. It focuses
on the data from the reservoirwellbore
boundary to the custody
transfer point and integration with the
consortium’s other domain standards
such as Wellsite Information Transfer
Standard Markup Language (WITSML)
and the Reservoir Characterization
Markup Language (RESQML).
Booth 1421.
Ingrain Creates Digital Rock
for High-Tech Sample Analysis
Oil and gas exploration is becoming
increasingly dependent on rocks
such as complex carbonates and
shale. To better understand the inner
workings of these rocks, however, new
technologies are needed. Houstonbased
Ingrain can accurately determine
the static and dynamic rock physics
properties from reservoir rocks.
Ingrain can also provide information
from drill cuttings from wells not
cored, making full use of all available
data and allowing for nanometerscale
observations and better
reservoir characterization.
Using the latest X-ray computed
tomography technology, highresolution
3D pore space can be
imaged in reservoir rocks at a
multitude of scales. From these
digital rocks, static and dynamic rock
properties can be computed. As these
tests are not destructive, all of the
computations can be repeated on the
same rock sample. Booth 1353.
Swell Meter, Rheometers Face
High Pressures, Temperatures
Grace Instrument’s M4600 highpressure/high-temperature
(HP/HT)
linear swell meter is an automated
dual-core meter that measures
volumetric expansion (or contraction)
of a core/wafer sample under
simulated downhole conditions. As it
does this, it saturates the sample with
a drilling fluid.
The meter’s design allows core
samples to expand in only one
direction, allowing repeatable test
results. Quick sample loading and
hardware setup optimize the process. A
dual core/wafer compactor is available
so that drill cuttings or other solids can
be compressed into a self-adhering
core/wafer and tested.
Grace’s M5600 HP/HT rheometer
is a true-Couette, coaxial-cylinder,
rotational, HP/HT rheometer. It is also
available with an optional viscoelastic
module for performing viscoelasticity
tests to derive elastic (G′), viscous
(G″), and complex (G*) moduli and
phase angle.
The meter’s design provides direct
readings inside the pressure vessel
without bob shaft bearings for lower
maintenance costs and continuous
testing of corrosive samples. The
rheometer incorporates a direct
drive between the bob shaft and the
torque transducer, which eliminates
momentum-of-inertia errors
associated with magnetically coupled
torque transducers. This allows the
torque transducer to respond quickly
and consistently to changing bob
shaft torque.
The company’s M7500 Ultra
HP/HT rheometer is a coaxial
cylinder, rotational, HP/HT rheometer
engineered to measure various
properties of fluids (including American
Petroleum Institute HP/HT tests) to
30,000 psi and 600°F.
The meter has a thick-walled steel
pressure cell surrounded by a fail-safe
steel containment vessel to ensure
operator safety. It is designed for easy
test setup, sample loading, and posttest
cleaning. Booth 2021.
Reservoir Data Modeling
Suite Enlightens Drillers
Paradigm’s advanced SKUA, Geolog,
and Sysdrill applications together offer
geophysicists, geologists, and drilling
engineers increased efficiency, reduced
drilling uncertainty and risk, and
faster decision-making on the basis of
accurate and realistic models.
Geolog 7 is the next-generation
version of the Geolog Formation
Evaluation suite. Geolog is
customizable to specific user
requirements; the modular design
provides a flexible software
environment that can be scaled from
a single user on a laptop to a team
collaborating over the network. Version
7 combines the system’s technological
superiority with a modern, userfriendly
interface that is consistent
across multiple platforms and provides
enhanced efficiency and usability.
Geolog Geosteer enables the
geosteering expert to merge data
from existing wells and interpreted
surfaces to build 3D log property
models, which are used to forwardmodel
anticipated logging-whiledrilling
log responses along planned
high-angle or horizontal wellbore
paths. Correlation of the predicted logs
with actual logs acquired during drilling
allows the user to accurately determine
the stratigraphic position of the well.
Booth 1420.
Paradigm’s Geolog Formation Evaluation software suite provides a consistent
interface across multiple platforms. Photo courtesy of Paradigm.