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ULL & ERD Wells
Challenges & Solutions
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Speaker
Iain Hutchison
15 – 16 February 2017
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Who-is Iain Hutchison?
CEng & Fellow of IMechE
Merlin ERD President
25+ Year Drilling Engineer
– Conocophillips, Marathon, Shell, Apache, Unocal, Lloyds of
London, Woodside, BHP, K&M etc.
ULL & ERD independent expert
Spitfire & P51d Mustang pilot
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Todays Presentation
Achievements ULL & ERD
Differences
What are the limits?
– How to predict, then extend?
Critical success factors
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The Start
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What’s Possible
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The Start
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Progress
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Industry Achievements
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Drainage Area
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18,000
Ft
35,000
Ft
40,000
Ft
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Differences ULL & ERD
ERD : access reservoir
ULL : reservoir contact
ULL : sub-set of ERD
– Use ERD innovations
– Toe Contribution
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Hole Cleaning Regimes
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Low Hanging Fruit (NPT)
Avoidance is better than cure
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Limits
• Equipment• Lease Size• Completion• Production• Well Maintenance, P&A• Aspirations
BeliefConfidence
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Limits
• Equipment• Lease Size• Completion• Production• Well Maintenance, P&A• Aspirations
BeliefConfidence
Engineering Modelling
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Who are Merlin ERD?
Industry Leaders - independent ERD & ULL services
• Engineering studies
• Ops Preparedness & Training
• Rigsite support
IADC contributing authors
Making your: - problems smaller,- profits bigger
- lives easier
Offices: USA, Europe & Australia
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Conclusion
Industry has
– Drilled beyond 44,000 ft
– Lateral beyond 36,000 ft
– Capability beyond 50,000 ft
Limited by dreams & aspirations
Each case on its merits
Simple not Easy!
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What’s Your Limit?
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Contact us to extend it:
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