Drilling Fluids Optimization in Gulf of Suez Area
Mohamed Atwa Mohamed;
Abstract
Drilling optimization remains a key issue in the oil industry due to the high costs in today's challenging facing these applications.
In drilling activities in the Gulf of Suez area, there are some problems that appear during drilling such as: blow outs, lost circulations, shale shaker screen plugging, caving, cutting in hole, mud weight build up, cement contamination,...etc. These problems reduce the drilling efficiency and increase the final cost of well drilling. So, an optimization program is needed to select the optimum drilling fluids based on optimizing the drilling fluid parameters to avoid these problems.
The optimization process is based on actual data collected from October and Morgan fields in GUPCO area in the Red Sea. This study involves the comparison between the optimized well and the actual drilled wells to show how costs can be saved. FORTRAN programs have been built to optimize the drilling activities in October and Morgan fields. The final optimized drilling program is to be implemented in these fields as well as in the Red Sea area.
In drilling activities in the Gulf of Suez area, there are some problems that appear during drilling such as: blow outs, lost circulations, shale shaker screen plugging, caving, cutting in hole, mud weight build up, cement contamination,...etc. These problems reduce the drilling efficiency and increase the final cost of well drilling. So, an optimization program is needed to select the optimum drilling fluids based on optimizing the drilling fluid parameters to avoid these problems.
The optimization process is based on actual data collected from October and Morgan fields in GUPCO area in the Red Sea. This study involves the comparison between the optimized well and the actual drilled wells to show how costs can be saved. FORTRAN programs have been built to optimize the drilling activities in October and Morgan fields. The final optimized drilling program is to be implemented in these fields as well as in the Red Sea area.
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| Title | Drilling Fluids Optimization in Gulf of Suez Area | Other Titles | ترشيد طفلة الحفر بمنطقة خليج السويس | Authors | Mohamed Atwa Mohamed | Issue Date | 2005 |
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