Aspectos de la perforación de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisis
The depletion of conventional reservoirs and the challenges for engineering that this means are not a secret. In Colombian foothills the trend has been clear: In the last 3 years, the deepest wells have been drilled with 20,300 ft and 20,808 ft. This depth could seem to be a lot, but actually the nu...
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| description | The depletion of conventional reservoirs and the challenges for engineering that this means are not a secret. In Colombian foothills the trend has been clear: In the last 3 years, the deepest wells have been drilled with 20,300 ft and 20,808 ft. This depth could seem to be a lot, but actually the number is not enough to represent how big the challenge is. The engineering development around this operation and the organizational maturity reached by the operator company through complex learning curves, have reduced the negative impacts to the projects’ performance. However, to the bunch of engineering issues to handle, it is necessary to add the political, economic and social fluctuations and all its causes, like the oil crisis that started on 2014. Hence, the question is: How to drill deep wells in crisis time?
The mitigation decisions taken by strategy managers imply planning and execution of projects by optimizing the resources as much as possible. Optimization is one more challenge because its application takes special care. Optimization does not mean reducing
costs at expense of the personnel’s benefits, wells’ quality or operations assurance. It means reducing costs strategically and this requires detailed analysis of offset wells and sensibilities of the proposed optimization. This is why in the Colombian foothills, the Whatif analysis, the capitalization of learned lessons and the risks analysis are made on robust planning models. Perhaps drilling through coal beds has been one of the most challenging operations in the foothills. Anyway, now the goal is not to drill through interbedded or inverted coal layers anymore. It is doing it in crisis time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89304b0fb0aa49c7a21cbfb9520fd1c92022-12-22T04:38:33ZengUniversidad Industrial de SantanderRevista Fuentes El Reventón Energético1657-65272145-85022018-07-011618191http://dx.doi.org/10.18273/revfue.v16n1-2018008Aspectos de la perforación de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisisAbraham Camilo Montes0Miguel Arcangel Guio LaraWilson Raul Carreño VelascoEquión - EnergíaThe depletion of conventional reservoirs and the challenges for engineering that this means are not a secret. In Colombian foothills the trend has been clear: In the last 3 years, the deepest wells have been drilled with 20,300 ft and 20,808 ft. This depth could seem to be a lot, but actually the number is not enough to represent how big the challenge is. The engineering development around this operation and the organizational maturity reached by the operator company through complex learning curves, have reduced the negative impacts to the projects’ performance. However, to the bunch of engineering issues to handle, it is necessary to add the political, economic and social fluctuations and all its causes, like the oil crisis that started on 2014. Hence, the question is: How to drill deep wells in crisis time? The mitigation decisions taken by strategy managers imply planning and execution of projects by optimizing the resources as much as possible. Optimization is one more challenge because its application takes special care. Optimization does not mean reducing costs at expense of the personnel’s benefits, wells’ quality or operations assurance. It means reducing costs strategically and this requires detailed analysis of offset wells and sensibilities of the proposed optimization. This is why in the Colombian foothills, the Whatif analysis, the capitalization of learned lessons and the risks analysis are made on robust planning models. Perhaps drilling through coal beds has been one of the most challenging operations in the foothills. Anyway, now the goal is not to drill through interbedded or inverted coal layers anymore. It is doing it in crisis time.http://dx.doi.org/10.18273/revfue.v16n1-2018008Deep wellsCrisis timeStrategyOptimizationLearned LessonsChallenges. |
| spellingShingle | Abraham Camilo Montes Miguel Arcangel Guio Lara Wilson Raul Carreño Velasco Aspectos de la perforación de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisis Revista Fuentes El Reventón Energético Deep wells Crisis time Strategy Optimization Learned Lessons Challenges. |
| title | Aspectos de la perforación de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisis |
| title_full | Aspectos de la perforación de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisis |
| title_fullStr | Aspectos de la perforación de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aspectos de la perforación de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisis |
| title_short | Aspectos de la perforación de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisis |
| title_sort | aspectos de la perforacion de pozos complejos en piedemonte en tiempos de crisis |
| topic | Deep wells Crisis time Strategy Optimization Learned Lessons Challenges. |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.18273/revfue.v16n1-2018008 |
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