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Well Productivity 2002, WP 2002.
EU-sponsored Project

For the ENERGIE part of the 5th Frame Programme, the European Union reviewed favourably a proposal on Well Productivity from a consortium of European oil and gas industry companies led by RF – Rogaland Research.

Well Productivity 2002 was a leading-edge industry-wide effort focused on the control of formation damage and designing well fluids and processes for optimal life-cycle productivity of reservoirs. The total budget is 2.27 MEuro (where the EU commission covers 47.3%). Subscription offered to oil companies via Joint Industry Group membership.

Well Productivity 2002 was a leading-edge industry-wide effort focused on the control of formation damage and designing well fluids and processes for optimal life-cycle productivity of reservoirs. The total budget is 2.27 MEuro (where the EU commission covers 47.3%). Subscription offered to oil companies via Joint Industry Group membership.

The well-balanced consortium included the following partners: RF-Rogaland Research (Stavanger, Norway), Reservoir Laboratories a.s. (Trondheim, Norway), M-I Drilling Fluids Ltd.lab (Aberdeen, UK), Rhodia Chimie SA (Paris, France) and ENI Tecnologie SpA (Milan, Italy). Each partner has a well-defined role in the project in accordance with its industry role.

The overall goal was to protect the production potential of the reservoir and the major objectives were:

Develop cost-effective field and laboratory formation damage diagnostics.
Conduct systematic applied research on well-fluid design, with emphasis on the damaging effects of well fluids.
Develop cost-effective field practices for maximising deliverability, including injection wells and gas reservoirs.
Create a simulation tool to support well planning decisions and integrate all the results obtained.
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Unified laboratory testing protocols.
Polymer-induced formation damage by water-based drilling & completion fluids.
Damage from emulsion-based fluids.
Low-damaging fluid systems/products.
Customised well clean-up procedures.
Well productivity simulator.

Project period: 2000 - 2003.

For more information, please contact project manager Arne Stavland




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