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ARTIFICAL LIFT 2006

Production enhancing tools you can use to extend the run-life, improve the economics and boost the efficiency of your artificial lift systems

• 21-22 February 2006 • Jakarta, Indonesia •

• CONFERENCE DAY ONE • 21 FEBRUARY 2006 •

IMPROVE THE ECONOMICS OF YOUR ARTIFICIAL LIFT INVESTMENTS

·  Reduce the complexity of your artificial lift system to minimize costs and avoid future problems

·  The interrelationship between OPEX, CAPEX and run-life, and how you can optimise them

·  What different models can you use to justify investment in ESPs, PCPs, HSPs, jet pumps, rod pumps, gas lift, etc.?

PLANNING, DESIGN AND TROUBLE-SHOOTING TO ENHANCE ARTIFICIAL LIFT PROJECTS

·  Steps you can take to build flexibility into your design process to account for future uncertainties

·  The role of software in the design phase to allow you to build a comprehensive model of the well, reservoir, completion, and the operating conditions before you design

·  Integrated scenario planning for extended run-life

PROVEN TOOLS YOU USE TO OPTIMISE YOUR EXISTING SELECTION PROCESSES

·  Effectively using your well-bore productivity index and your reservoir data as a key selection criteria

·  Considering pressure, maintenance and temperature in making your selection

·  Applying the range of differing techniques to differing well environments – what new applications of existing and new technologies do you need to know about?

INVESTIGATION, DEFINITION AND REMEDIAL ACTION TO REDUCE FAILURE COST

·  How are failures identified, what remedial actions can you plan, and how do they work?

·  What intervention steps can be taken to understand the failure mechanism?

·  Completing with an ESP with a gas lift backup to minimise the cost of equipment failure

IMPROVE AND EXTEND THE RUN-LIFE OF YOUR ARTIFICIAL LIFT SYSTEMS

·  Extend life through working with service companies to perfect the application of the equipment

·  Understanding that long run-life with optimum efficiency is crucial and taking steps to ensure both

·  Other simple and cost-effective tools you can use to prolong the time between commission and failure

HOW EFFECTIVE FORWARD PLANNING CAN MINIMIZE LIFECYCLE WORKOVER COST

·  How, by carefully monitoring efficiency, you can anticipate equipment failure and combine workover activities to reduce costs

·  Artificial lift forward planning as a means of shifting the economic picture and dramatically reducing OPEX

·  Practical steps you can take to reduce workover costs and optimise production from your artificial lift equipment

FRESH NEW APPROACHES TO APPLY ARTIFICIAL LIFT IN MATURE FIELDS

·  The importance of artificial lift in protecting base production and core revenue to feed new projects

·  Using artificial lift to maintain competitive lifting cost compared with other projects

·  Inexpensive options you can apply to a mature basin

BALANCING CAPEX AND OPEX USING INNOVATIVE CONTRACTING STRATEGIES

·  Sharing risks and rewards to allow you to apply effective but expensive new technology

·  The importance of building flexibility into your contracting agreement

·  How keeping things simple can eliminate problems from start to finish

SELECTING THE BEST ARTIFICIAL LIFT METHODS FOR YOUR FIELD

·  Best practice in selecting the artificial lift technique which offers the highest value

·  Effectively using your new and existing data as a key selection criteria to implement artificial lift

·  Considering pressure, maintenance and temperature in making your selection

·  Applying the range of differing techniques to differing well environments – what new applications of existing and new technologies do you need to know about?

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• CONFERENCE DAY ONE • 22 FEBRUARY 2006 •

IMPLEMENTING AN INEXPENSIVE AND EFFECTIVE, GAS LIFT OPTIMIZATION PROGRAMME

·  Tools you can use to maximize production

·  Optimizing the design and the operational aspects of your gas lift operations

·  Avoiding well problems and identifying opportunities to improve gas lift performance with real-time wellhead surveillance

GAS LIFT INTEGRITY AND MAINTAINENCE

·  What is the best distribution of gas lift injection gas throughout your production system?

·  Gas lift repair and retro-fit in mature offshore fields

·  How you can monitor and control gas lift wells by collecting and displaying data from multiple gas lifted wells

CONVERTING YOUR GAS LIFT TO ESP

·  Justifying the high cost of the ESP equipment

·  Reduce risk by running an ESP system together with gas lift backup

·  What diagnostic and advisory computer programmes are there to assist ESP installation?

·  Using a gas lift workover as a low-cost opportunity for an ESP conversion

PROGRESSIVE CAVITY PUMPS AS A MEANS OF LIFTING FROM HEAVY OIL ENVIRONMENTS

·  The advantages and disadvantages of PCPs and jet pumps for lifting heavy oil

·  Can these methods be operated in a variety of well environments?

·  PCP as a means to reduce installation costs and OPEX

JUSTIFYING YOUR ESP INVESTMENTS TO OPTIMIZE PRODUCTION

·  Gas lift versus ESPs for your projects

·  What are the benefits and drawbacks of ESP application and how can you maximize the former and minimize that latter?

·  Managing future costs and improve ESP project economics

REAL-TIME COMPUTER AIDED ARTIFICIAL LIFT OPTIMIZATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO YOU

·  What automated artificial lift optimisation systems are on the market and how can they help you?

·  Establishing a remotely operated lift optimisation programme for unmanned facilities

·  How can you persuade your management to invest in this new approach to optimise production?

·  The benefits and value of real-time artificial lift optimisation

APPLYING NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR YOUR ARTIFICIAL LIFT PROJECT

·  How applicable and user friendly is the new technology coming onto the market

·  Can new technology be cost-effectively applied to mature fields where CAPEX is limited

·  What innovative contracting strategies are available to improve the economics of investment in new technologies

EFFECTIVE ARTIFICIAL LIFT OPERATIONS IN HIGH TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENTS

·  Ensuring that your design and selection process takes into account the extremes of your operating environment

·  Materials choices to allow you to optimize your HT artificial lift operations

·  The importance of regular monitoring, testing and maintenance in maximizing HT lift system run-life

OVERCOMING THE ARTIFICIAL LIFT CHALLENGES POSED BY SAND AND WATER PRODUCTION

·  The use of expandable sand screen to prolong ESP run-life in a mature field with severe sand production problems

·  Applying flexibility in your initial design to allow for the onset of water cut and sand production

·  Combining a downhole water separation system with an ESP installation to minimise the cost of surface water handling

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOP A: GAS LIFT OPTIMISATION

WORKSHOP B: ELECTRIC SUBMERSIBLE PUMP (ESP)

WORKSHOP C: RUN LIFE EXTENSION

WORKSHOP D: PROGRESSING CAVITY PUMP (PCP) OPTIMISATION

If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact

Rizal Hafidz Rahman, Tel: +65 6722 9384, E-mail:

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