Sand management/control

Subsea Multilateral Oil Producer Evaluated With Acoustic and Production-Logging Tools

This paper discusses tools and techniques used to localize a tubing leak in a horizontally completed multilateral well, identifying the bore responsible for sand production and providing relative sand quantification at differing flow rates.

Time domain data handling.
Time domain data handling.
Source: SPE 210299.

A horizontally completed subsea multilateral well exhibited unexpected sand production and a tubing leak, leading to the well being shut in. The complete paper discusses the novel tools and techniques used to localize the tubing leak, identify the bore responsible for sand production, and provide relative sand quantification at differing flow rates.

Well Background and History

The well was drilled and completed as a subsea producer to be tied back to an existing floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel by means of a subsea flowline. After drilling of the first lateral, the decision was taken not to complete it. A second lateral was then drilled and completed.

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