SLB will support Brunei Shell Petroleum in the recovery of oil and gas production through the intervention of shut-in wells in several offshore fields.
SLB will bring shut-in offshore wells back into production
SLB obtained a contract of Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) to support the reactivation of shut-in offshore wells in several fields in Brunei. The program aims to recover production using existing assets and infrastructure and extend the yield of mature offshore fields.
The energy technology company will assume a scope that begins with the Subsurface assessment and selection of candidate wells from this phase onwards, the work will continue with the engineering and execution of the offshore interventions.
Furthermore, the contract includes project management, well intervention services, monitoring, measurement, and marine logistics. These activities will operate under a coordinated execution model aimed at efficiently restoring production.
In this way, BSP seeks to take advantage of resources that remain in existing fields without depending exclusively on new offshore developments.
How will production be recovered from the shut-down wells?
One of the project’s central objectives will be to determine which wells offer the best conditions for resuming production. This selection requires analyzing the subsurface and the behavior of the assets before defining the corresponding interventions.
Subsequently, SLB will combine engineering, monitoring, and intervention services within a single plan, this approach will allow for the coordination of operations on wells, reservoirs, and facilities while maintaining control over production.
The program follows the well, reservoir, and facility management methodology used to organize monitoring and intervention planning. Thus, the project aims to increase hydrocarbon recovery using the offshore infrastructure that BSP already has available.
For Gokhan Yarim, Senior Vice President of Integration at SLB the collaboration is precisely aimed at obtaining greater value from those existing resources.
Together with BSP, we combined SLB’s production expertise and integrated execution capabilities to help restart production from shut-in wells, increase recovery through existing infrastructure, and support BSP’s long-term production goals.
Gokhan Yarim, Senior Vice President of Integration at SLB.
Mature offshore fields are gaining importance
The contract represents Brunei Shell Petroleum’s first application of an integrated SLB solution specifically designed for the production restoration the approach brings together several disciplines and services within a single workflow.
This approach is especially relevant in mature offshore fields where recovering production may require more precise interventions due to the evolution of the reservoirs and the conditions of the wells.
Therefore, candidate selection is combined with monitoring, engineering, and operations planning, the aim is to identify recovery opportunities and execute interventions while maintaining safe and efficient operating conditions.
Likewise, the project reflects the growing interest of operators in improving the performance of assets that already have wells and installed infrastructure.
SLB is committed to integrated recovery solutions
For SLB, the award reinforces a strategy based on integrating technical and operational capabilities to improve the oil and gas production of existing assets.
The company believes that mature offshore fields offer recovery opportunities, although they also entail greater operational complexity. For this reason, its model combines technical expertise, production management, and coordinated execution.
In the case of BSP, the strategy will allow the selection of wells, engineering, interventions, monitoring, measurement and marine logistics to be concentrated in a single program.
With this, the project in Brunei will focus on Reactivate shut-in offshore wells and increase oil and gas recovery by leveraging existing infrastructure, a formula that becomes more relevant as operators seek to extract more value from their mature assets.
Source: Offshore Energy
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