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In-Well Fiber-Optic Sensing
November 6, 2023 8:00 AM - November 7, 2023 5:00 PM CST
$2,125.00
- INSTRUCTOR:
- Dennis Dria, PhD
- DISCIPLINE:
- Engineering, Geoscience
- COURSE LENGTH:
- 2 Days (November 06-07, 2023)
- CEUS:
- 1.6
- AVAILABILITY:
- Public & In-House
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Completion, drilling, production, surveillance, and reservoir engineers who need an introduction to the design and use of fiber-optic instrumented well installations, as well as geologists and geophysicists who need an understanding of the capabilities of in-well fiber-optic sensing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This two-day training event introduces petroleum engineers and geoscientists to fiber-optic sensing technology that is used for well and reservoir diagnostics and surveillance. Each day may be taken individually to satisfy a particular need (technology awareness, review prior to beginning FO field projects, introduction to current preferred practices) or as a sequence to obtain a more thorough understanding (to move user through “awareness” to “knowledgeable” level).
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- How fiber-optic sensors work.
- Where and how fiber-optic sensing can create value.
- Technical and economic factors that influence the selection and justification for installing DAS/DTS systems in specific well types.
- Completion and monitoring components needed to deliver a DAS/DTS-monitored well.
- Installation and commissioning operations.
COURSE CONTENT:
1. In-Well Fiber-Optic Sensing: Introduction to the Technology and Applications (1 Day)
- What is Fiber-Optic Sensing (FOS): basic physics and engineering of the FOS system components: fibers, coatings, cabling, connectors optical fibers, sensor types, instrumentation.
- Why we would want to use FOS: advantages and disadvantages vs. other sensing/monitoring technologies.
- Single-point FO sensors: P, T, seismic/acoustic
- Distributed FO sensing: temperature (DTS), acoustics (DAS), strain (DSS)
- Overview of the different applications
- Survey of FOS system deployment methods
- Permanently installed FOS
- FO “logging” interventions & temporary installations
- Data management and analysis/interpretation
- Factors that influence FOS system selection
- High-level screening of candidate wells and justification for installing FOS
2. In-Well Fiber-Optic Sensing: Applications and Deployment (1 Day)
Applications for Diagnostics and Surveillance
- Introduction to “Life-of-Field” monitoring with Fiber-Optic Sensing (FOS)
- Using FOS for completion and stimulation diagnostics, e.g.:
- Role in field development
- Well placement strategy/optimization (2- and 3-d)
- Stage and cluster efficiency
- Frac monitoring/mapping
- Frac “hits”
- Life-of-field surveillance
- Production monitoring/multiphase inflow profiling
- Well-well interactions
- Artificial lift monitoring
- Well integrity
- What FOS provides (where it works), what it misses (advantages/disadvantages vs. other monitoring tools)
- Integration (synergy) with other monitoring methods
- Tracers
- Microseismic
- Tiltmeter
- OH and CH wireline
- Others
Deployment of Fiber-Optic Sensing Systems: Well Design and Installations
- Fiber-optic sensing (FOS) well architectures
- Onshore
- Offshore
- FOS system – component selection and specification
- Fiber
- Cables
- Surface instrumentation units
- Power/communication options
- Completion hardware
- Well design modifications needed to accommodate FOS
- Hole size
- Casing/tubing
- RIH procedures
- Cementing
- Perforating
- Installation operations
- Project planning
- Completion/FOS installation operations
- Preferred/recommended practices
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- Commissioning
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REGISTRATION POLICY
Registration should be made at least one month before the start of a course. It is recommended that participants register early due to limited seating. However, we will accept paid registrations up to the last business day before the class, provided there are seats available. Registrants will receive a confirmation email within 48 hours of registration and will receive complete venue information two weeks prior to the first day of class.
REMINDER: your seat in a course is NOT confirmed until payment is received.
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