Abstract
Currently drilling of horizontal wells is a common enhanced oil recovery method. Geosteering services are often used for accurate well placement, which makes it possible to achieve a significant increase in production at relatively low cost.
This paper describes the result of using seismic data in three-dimensional visualization for high-quality geosteering using a deep boundary detection tool and multilayer inversion in real time.
Crossing the top of the reservoir while drilling horizontal sections at the current oilfield is unacceptable, due to the presence of reactive mudstones. In case of crossing the top of reservoir, further work on running and installing the liner becomes impossible due to instability and may lead to well collapse.
Based on prewell analysis of the structural data, the well was not supposed to approach the top of the target formation along the planned profile. However, while preparing geosteering model and analyzing seismic data it became possible to reveal that risk, elaborate its mitigation and eventually increase the length of the horizontal section.
Such integrated analysis made it possible to maintain the wellbore within the target reservoirs, as well as to update the structural bedding of the top based on the multilayer inversion results.
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