An overview of WSS

Operations
Abhishek Sarmah
AEE (P)
WSS - Assam Asset
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Content

Introduction
Sick Well & Intervention
Well Stimulation Objectives
Methodology
Equipment
Performance in the year 2013 -14

Introduction
Brown Fields
Increasing Complexities of Production
Sick Wells

Sick Wells
Causes for Sick Wells :

Increasing water and gas

production
Deposition of Wax
Plugging of perforations
Skin Deposition
Production of unconsolidated sands
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Well Stimulation
To remove well bore damage :
To restore / improve production from the well
To improve / restore injectivity of the injectors
To enhance recovery factor from the field
To improve economics of exploitation

Methods

Hot Oil Circulation

Nitrogen Pumping
Acidization
Solvent
Hydro fracturing

Units employed

Coiled Tubing Unit

Nitrogen Pumping Unit
Acid Pumping Unit
Fracking Unit
Blender

Schematics of CTU

ASSET WISE WSS JOB DETAILS

Sl .
No

Asset

No. of
CTU
Units

No. of
WSS
jobs in
201314

Jobs
per CTU

Ahmedabad

720

180

Ankleshwar

683

227

Karaikal

92

46

Assam

900

225
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Conclusion
Increasingly matured fields would
require greater degree and more
frequent interventions
More R&D work would be required to
deal with the increasingly complex
problems that are starting to plague
the fields
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