Brunei
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Evening
“Sand Control Challenges in Offshore Sabah - Malaysia”
by Mr Karim Shaikh
Date: 5th October 2004
Venue: BSRC, Kuala Belait
ABSTRACT
Unconsolidated
formations add considerably to the challenge of trying to exploit reserves
economically from highly compartmentalised, stratified reservoir units in
the South Furious Field, Offshore Sabah. Although downhole sand control has
been implemented since field start-up in the early 1980s, complex field geology,
low reserves per well and offshore unmanned operations philosophy adopted in
North Sabah has meant that search for the optimum sand control methodology
continues to this day.
Key
for future viable field development projects such as South Furious
Central South will be the selection of well concepts that balance well cost with
well productivity and completion reliability, make use of previous
experience in the field and exploit the latest technological developments in an
effort to reduce unit development costs.
This presentation will summarise Shell Malaysia’s
approach to achieve low unit cost developments in a sand prone environment and
will cover the following;
- field infrastructure and background
- evolution of sand control in South Furious with
experience to date and lessons learnt including the recent application of
CH-ESS completions
- update on the recent application of
openhole swellable packers to reduce well cost
- plans for future wells in the field
BIOGRAPH
Karim
Shaikh, Senior Production Technologist, SHELL MALAYSIA-EP
Karim
holds an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London and has 13
years of Petroleum Engineering experience. He has held several positions in
Union Texas Petroleum and Texaco North Sea Ltd covering Reservoir Engineering,
Production Engineering and Completions Engineering. Following this worked as a
Snr Production Technologist for Helix Well Technologies, Aberdeen.
Karim
joined Sarawak Shell Berhad in February 2002 and is currently working as Senior
Production Technologist in the Sabah Asset Development team.
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