Operational aspects of oil and gas well testing / Stuart McAleese
- Author
- McAleese, Stuart
- Published
- Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2000.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- xxix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- WELL TEST OBJECTIVES: The decision to test -- Mobilizing test equipment -- SAFETY PROCEDURES: Breathing apparatus -- Certification service testing and safety review -- HAZOP studies -- Dangerous substances -- Daylight high visibility working -- Explosives -- Fire fighting equipment -- Gas detection -- Hydrogen sulphide -- Oil spill contingency -- Restricted access -- Safety meetings -- Site preparation -- Start of testing operations -- JOB RESPONSIBILITIES DURING WELL TESTING: Barge control room offshore -- Base office -- Boat captain standby vessel -- Cementers -- Derrickman -- Downhole tool operator -- Driller -- Drilling engineer -- Drilling manager superintendent -- Drilling supervisor -- Electric wireline engineer -- Gauge engineer -- H2S service company representative -- Mud engineer -- Mud Logger -- Petroleum reservoir engineer -- Production testing crew -- Radio operators -- Slickline operator -- Sub sea engineer -- TCP engineer -- Test engineer -- Tool pusher OIM -- SPECIFIC WELL TEST OBJECTIVES: Boundaries -- Flowrate -- Maximum rate testing -- Permeability -- Reservoir pressure -- Samples -- Zonal contribution -- TEST DESIGN: Single rate oil well testing -- Gas well tests -- Transient pressure analysis -- Artificial lift performance testing -- Aquifer permeability and mobility testing -- Bare foot testing -- Slug or closed chamber testing -- Injectivity testing -- Open hole testing -- Reservoir limit tests and extended well tests -- High pressure high temperature testing HP/HT -- Stimulation technique evaluation -- The use of tubing or drill pipe for the test string -- Two valve isolation -- Well preparation -- Zonal isolation -- Well test planning considerations checklist --, COMPLETION PACKER FLUIDS: Cost -- Formation pressure -- Formation temperature -- Fluid deterioration with time -- Overbalance perforating -- Underbalance perforating -- Skin damage -- PERFORATING: Casing gun perforation -- Through tubing perforation -- Tubing conveyed perforation -- Tubing conveyed perforating TCP firing heads -- DOWNHOLE TEST EQUIPMENT: DST drill stem test concepts -- Bull nose mule shoe -- Gauge bundle carriers -- Debris sub -- Gun release sub -- Shock absorbers -- Perforated joint -- Packers -- Tubing test valve -- Safety joint -- Hydraulic jars -- Relief valve and bypass tool -- Tester downhole shut in valves -- Surface read out SRO subs -- Radioactive marker sub -- Drill collars -- Slip joints -- Reverse circulation valves -- Cross overs -- Tubing drill pipe connections -- IRIS -- PRESSURE GAUGES: Mechanical gauges -- Strain gauges -- Capacitance transducer gauges -- Vibrating crystal transducer -- Sapphire crystal transducer -- Gauge Memory Sections -- Memory gauge battery packs -- Surface read out SRO gauges -- Permanent and semi permanent gauges -- Speciality gauges -- Calibration of gauges -- SUB SEA EQUIPMENT: Sub sea test tree SSTT -- Associated sub sea equipment -- DST operating criteria -- Sub sea test tree disconnect -- SURFACE TEST EQUIPMENT: Surface test tree flowhead -- Coflexip hoses -- Rig permanent pipework -- Hydraulic surface safety valve -- Surface temporary piping -- Sand trap -- Sand detection equipment -- Data header -- Choke manifold -- Steam heat exchanger or heater -- Horizontal separator -- Vertical separator -- Metering -- Electronic surface data acquisition -- Gauge tank -- Surge tank -- Transfer pump -- Gas diverter manifold -- Oil diverter manifold -- Burner booms -- Standard oil burners -- Green burners -- Equipment hook up and location -- Flare lines -- Vent lines -- Relief lines -- Emergency shutdown systems --, and WELL TESTING OPERATIONS: Equipment checking -- Operational considerations for equipment layout -- Flowmeter calibration -- Pressure testing -- Running the test tubing or drill pipe -- Running and setting the packer -- Choke manipulation during testing -- Separator operations -- Production problems -- Well control -- RESERVOIR FLUID BEHAVIOUR & SAMPLING OPERATIONS: Reservoir fluid behavior -- Sampling programmes -- Stable flow -- Downhole sampling conditions -- Electric line sampling -- Slickline sampling -- Transfer of bottom hole samples -- Test tool sampling -- Reverse circulation sampling -- Surface sampling points -- Monophasic surface sampling -- Recombination sampling -- Labeling of samples -- Storage and disposal of samples -- GAS OIL & WATER MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS: Gas measurements and analysis -- Oil measurements and analysis -- Water measurements and analysis -- REPORTING: Daily reporting from the wellsite -- Final well test report -- COIL TUBING AND NITROGEN: Coiled tubing equipment -- Uses of coil tubing -- Typical coil tubing operating procedures -- Uses of nitrogen -- Uses of the coil tubing nitrogen combination -- STIMULATION: Responsibilities -- Safety -- Stimulation by acid -- Stimulation by fracturing.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0444503110
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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