SPEAKERS
1. Autumn Shepherd, Lead Engineer in Drilling and Completion Fluids – Baker Hughes
Presenting – “Innovations in deep-water high-performance water-based drill-in fluid”
The presentation focuses on a case history of a recent application of a high-performance high-density divalent reservoir drilling fluid system in offshore deep-water Brazil. The system is a gum free fluid (GFDIF) specifically designed to drill wells in Brazil pre-salt reservoirs dealing with high pressure and heterogeneous carbonate sections. The fluid showed excellent performance in the deepwater drilling conditions over a 24-day period drilling reservoir section and coring operations, and an additional 11-day static conditions during an extended logging run.
Autumn Shepherd is an experienced drilling and completions fluids scientist with over 16 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, specialized in completion fluids. She has a strong background in manufacturing and quality. Autumn joined Baker Hughes, Drilling and Completion Fluids Research and Development group in the year 2020. She is currently working on new completion fluids systems, while introducing the next generation of green chemistry products.
2. Kevin Rodrigue, GOM Technical Manager – Halliburton
Presenting – “RDF Design Considerations for Deepwater Applications”
Today’s Deepwater markets continue to grow and evolve. Advancements in technologies such 20k completions continue to raise the bar for Reservoir DRIL-N Fluids (RDF) designs. Higher pressures require heavier fluids. At these densities, the options for base brines are very limited which can present significant challenges when designing a system that must also meet other criteria such as thermal stability or acid solubility. This presentation will strive to highlight some of the considerations that must be taken when designing a deepwater RDF.
Kevin Rodrigue is the GOM Technical Manager for Halliburton Baroid DRIL-N Fluids in Houston. Kevin has been with Baroid and in the Fluids industry for 15 years. He has been involved with the development and deployment of HPHT brine based DRIL-N systems and is here today to discuss challenges unique to designing RDF for deepwater applications.
Panel Discussion
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Panelists:
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Laurie Hayden, Baker Hughes
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Jack Sanford, QN Energy
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Phillip Vincent, TETRA Innovation Group
Panel Topic – “Completion Fluids Design & Selection for deepwater applications”
Producing zones require special care to achieve maximum production. Properly interpreting the complexities of each reservoir to optimize services, systems, and applications, can deliver high-performance management specific to the wellbore conditions. Clear brine fluids (CBFs) have been commonly used for pressure control since the 1970s, playing an important role in oil exploration and development and are commonly used in completion, gravel-packing, fracking, perforating, drill-in, and packer fluids. A wide range of monovalent and divalent CBFs are implemented to minimize mechanical and formation damage to the wellbore while drilling, completing and intervening operations. With wells reaching higher pressure and/or higher temperature in Deep-Water and Ultra-Deep-Water environments, where particular environmental conditions such as low temperatures and high pressures are encountered, exposed one significant drawback, crystallization, which can potentially lead to well control issues and/or costly operational disruptions such as plugged choke/kill lines.
But is this all there is when selecting your completion fluid formulation? Join us to learn more about completion fluids for deepwater operations.
Laurie Hayden (she/her) is a Houston native and Rice University alum with a BS degree in Chemistry and specialization in Inorganic Chemistry. While at Rice, she researched carbon nanomaterials, including single-walled carbon nanotubes for carbon capture applications. She has 10 years of experience in the oil and gas industry with a focus on completion and reservoir fluids. She is currently the Drilling & Completion Fluids Global Lab Manager at Baker Hughes.
Jack Sanford is a professional engineer with over 34 years of experience in all disciplines of oil & gas E&P sector. Most recently, he is the Director of Drilling and Completion at QuarterNorth Energy. Before joining QNE, he worked for multiple companies as consulting engineer, including Talos, Noble Energy, ENI Petroleum, Exxon and Amoco. He has published over 15 technical papers and presented multiple industry symposiums. He has a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering and undergraduate degrees in both Petroleum Engineering and Geology, all from Texas A&M University.
Phillip Vincent is a Senior Engineering Services Advisor in the TETRA Innovation Group at TETRA Technologies. He has a decade of experience with completion fluids, including the development of the TETRA CS Neptune® series of fluids, and has been instrumental in the development and commercialization of several new additives for completion fluids, such as non-emulsifiers, lubricants and corrosion inhibitors. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.