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Fiber-Optic Sensing: Diagnostic and Surveillance Applications and Deployment
Format and Duration:
2 days
This course presents a broad exposure to fiber-optic monitoring through detailed case studies and leads the student through the steps of sensing system selection, design and installation.
Schedule
Duration and Training Method
N473 is a two day classroom based course. Training consists of lectures, class discussion, exercises and case histories.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn to:
- For various development scenarios, assess where and when fiber-optic sensing can provide appropriate diagnostic data vs. other monitoring/diagnostic tools (i.e. when it works and when another technique has potential to provide superior results)
- Select fiber-optic data acquisition systems to provide reservoir development model calibration and validation information, for various well placement and completion scenarios.
- Design plan/workflow (high level) to effectively integrate FO data with other diagnostic data.
- Evaluate fiber-optic sensing options vs. traditional reservoir/well surveillance methods
- Select fiber-optic data acquisition systems suitable for different surveillance needs.
- Design plan/workflow (high level) to effectively integrate FO data with other surveillance data.
- Select fiber-optic well sensing system appropriate for well type and surveillance need.
- Specify completion hardware and fiber-optic system components (fiber, cable, instruments) needed to accomplish surveillance and completion/stimulation diagnostic goals.
- Modify completion designs to accommodate permanently installed fiber-optic sensing systems.
- Design data acquisition protocols for specific well types.
- Assess permanently installed fiber-optic sensing and fiber-optic intervention (“logging”) options, and recommend/justify when to use which options based on a particular well type and information need.
Course Content
The first day provides guidance for using in-well fiber-optic monitoring for completion and stimulation diagnostics as well as reservoir and well surveillance, with a special focus on unconventional resource plays. Fiber-optic sensing is a major diagnostic tool which can provide critical information to validate, constrain and calibrate various models (fracture growth, reservoir drainage, well placement, perf cluster and stage placement, etc.) used to optimize field development. After a well is brought on production, fiber-optic sensing can provide key surveillance information that has been historically acquired with cased hole logs and other traditional monitoring systems: inflow (production) profiles, waterflood management, stimulation/re-stimulation efficiency, water and gas breakthrough location, sand production.
The second day provides the knowledge and tools to design and manage the execution of fiber-optic-instrumented well completions and well interventions, which will provide key data and information to optimize well completions and asset performance. Upon completion, the student will be able to properly recommend when and where to apply fiber-optic sensing to optimize field development and manage well and reservoir performance.
DAY 1
- Quick review of Fiber-Optic Sensing Basics
- Introduction to “Life-of-Field” monitoring with Fiber-Optic Sensing (FOS)
- Using FOS for completion and stimulation diagnostics, e.g.:
- Role in field development,
- Well placement strategy/optimization:
- 2-D (single reservoir)
- 3-D (multiple bench/stacked reservoirs/”cube” development)
- Stage and cluster efficiency
- Frac monitoring/mapping
- Frac “hits”
- Life-of-field surveillance
- Production monitoring/multiphase inflow profiling
- Injection/stimulation monitoring
- Reservoir depletion
- Well-well interactions
- Artificial lift monitoring
- Using the production well as an ad-hoc monitor well
- others
- What FOS provides (where it works), what it misses (advantages/disadvantages vs. other monitoring tools)
- Integration (synergy) with other monitoring methods
- Tracers
- Geophone-acquired Microseismic and Vsp
- Tiltmeter
- OH and CH wireline
- Others
- Work flows, recommended practices, project planning
Day 2
- Fiber-optic sensing (FOS) well architectures
- Onshore
- Offshore
- FOS system – component selection and specification
- Fiber
- Cables
- Surface instrumentation units
- Power/communication options
- Completion hardware
- Well design modifications needed to accommodate FOS
- Hole size
- Casing/tubing
- RIH procedures
- Cementing
- Perforating
- Wellhead-to-office data transfer,data storage and interpretation considerations
- Installation operations
- Project planning
- Completion/FOS installation operations
- Preferred/recommended practices
- Fiber-optic monitoring system commissioning
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
This course sequence is for completion, drilling, production, surveillance, and reservoir engineers, geologists and geophysicists.
Instructors
Dennis Dria
Background
Dennis Dria is president and petroleum technology advisor for Myden Energy Consulting, PLLC (2010-present). He has 39 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, including 9 years with the Standard Oil Company and 21 years with Shell, in a combination of upstream and downstream oil and gas R&D and E&P operating division positions. At the time he left Shell in 2010, he was a Staff Research Engineer working in the areas of fiber-optic technology development, fiber-optic data management and integration and technology implementation for well and reservoir monitoring. Prior to this he was Engineering Advisor for Shell’s Global Implementation Team for Reservoir Surveillance Technologies during which he identified appropriate in-well monitoring technologies for Shell "top 70" global development projects, resulting in field surveillance plans for more than 20 major E&P projects. He also was Shell’s Global Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Production Logging and Permanent Sensing and SME for Mud Logging, and had formation evaluation and well logging (open-hole and cased-hole) assignments that included planning, vendor selection, operations, interpretation and field studies.
Under Myden Energy Consulting, PLLC, Dennis advises clients on the "right-fit" technology to provide key data and information which result in actionable recommendations for appropriate implementation timing and methods, and assists in deployment, data management, information extraction and interpretation. He has completed consulting projects for more than 20 industry clients, including onshore unconventional gas and oil, deep-water dry tree and subsea wells/fields, and has developed and taught multiple fit-for-purpose short courses. Additionally, he has provided well logging/MWD vendor selection, job planning, and operational supervision for Midland Basin and Delaware Basin (Texas) unconventional field development.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD The University of Texas at Austin - Petroleum Engineering
BS Ashland University - Physics and Mathematics
Courses Taught
N472: Reservoir Surveillance: Field Development and Production Optimization and the Impact on Completion Design
N473: Fiber-Optic Sensing: Diagnostic and Surveillance Applications and Deployment
N481: Fiber-Optic Sensing: Introduction to the Technology and In-Well Sensing Applications
Accreditation and Certification
CEU: 1.4 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 14 Professional Development Hours
Certificate: Certificate Issued Upon Completion
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