Optimal well placement techniques in low contrast clastic reservoirs utilising integrated technologies and real-time data to minimise uncertainty in challenging low contrast clastic reservoirs

Tóm tắt

Nong Yao is an oil field with complex geology setting: the extent of aquifer support, faulted and compartmentalised reservoirs, lateral sand connectivity, thin oil columns, fluid contact, and low contrast pays. It is very challenging to develop the field with conventional methodology by drilling highly deviated or slanted wells. Utilising and integrating technology and real-time data geo-steering was enabling the success of development plan by minimising those uncertainties, landing the wells and geo-steering the horizontal well precisely as desired. As the result, the production increased significantly and it becomes the potential to unlock more reservoirs in the Gulf of Thailand for development in the current cost pressure and oil price environment.