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Classifying salt as a barrier
for well abandonment –
A case study from the
Southern North Sea
Presenter:
David Dangfa (Spirit Energy)
Senior Petrophysicist
Co – Authors:
Hozefa Godhrawala, Rashid Sharafutdinov (Spirit Energy)
Kamaljeet Singh, David Small (Schlumberger)
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Agenda
• A-Fields introduction
• Geology
• Abandonment overview and challenges
• Case study
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
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United Kingdom
Norway
A-Fields - Overview
Aberdeen
Fields: Ann Annabel Audrey Alison Location: UKCS Southern Gas Basin
Partnership: 100% Spirit Energy Hydrocarbons: Gas , Condensate Reservoir Formation: Rotliegend Leman Sandstone Source Formation: Westphalian Coal Measure Start of production: 1988 Production wells: 21 Total Production: > 955 BCF Total GIIP: 1.2 TCF CoP: 2016
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A-Fields - Overview
Aberdeen
Fields: Ann Annabel Audrey Alison Location: UKCS Southern Gas Basin
Partnership: 100% Spirit Energy Hydrocarbons: Gas , Condensate Reservoir Formation: Rotliegend Leman Sandstone Source Formation: Westphalian Coal Measure Start of production: 1988 Production wells: 21 Total Production: > 955 BCF Total GIIP: 1.2 TCF CoP: 2016
Ann Annabel
Audrey
Alison
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A-Fields - Decommissioning overview
• 14 platform wells
• 7 subsea wells
• 2 open water suspended wells
Spirit Energy has 52 wells to be abandoned by 2023
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A-Fields – Seismic section and stratigraphy
Seismic section of A-fields
Flow potential zones
Multiple flow zones and drilling hazards
3000m
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A-Fields – Seismic section and stratigraphy
Seismic section of A-fields
Soluble and mobile salts
Multiple flow zones and drilling hazards
3000m
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A-Fields – Seismic section and stratigraphy
Seismic section of A-fields
Multiple flow zones and drilling hazards
3000m
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Zechstein - Squeezing salts
Cemented
Reservoir
Section
Uncemented
Salt
Section
Casing
Mobile salts
creep against
casing creating
zonal isolation
• Predominantly evaporite (anhydrite and salt) and carbonate formations
• Complex sequence of soluble salts with high potassium and
magnesium content.
• Drilling challenges associated with highly soluble and mobile salts
Mobile salts - drilling challenge but abandonment opportunity
Mobile
salts
High solubility
salts
High solubility
salts
Washout
Brine kicks
Washout
Stuck drill string
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• Subsea gas producer
• Drilled late 1987 and completed in August 1988
• Production abruptly ceased in March 1997 due to
well related issues
• Well abandoned in April 2017
• Subsurface objectives to establish:-
– Zones with flow potential
– Cement / salt bond behind 9 5/8” casing
Case Study - Audrey 49/11a-7
9 5/8”
shoe
9 5/8”
TOC
13 3/8”
shoe Zechstein
Salts
Zechstein
Salts
Leman
Sandstone
(Reservoir)
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9 5/8 TOC
13 3/8”
shoe Zechstein
undiff
Zechstein
undiff
Case Study - Work plan
9 5/8”shoe
9 5/8 TOC
13 3/8”
shoe
• Review old CBL log
• Cut and retrieve tubing
• Acquire conventional CBL and Pulse
Echo / Flexural Attenuation logs for
cement evaluation
• If good casing bond observed in
zone(s) of interest, conduct AIT test
and set balance cement plug along
annular bond
• If poor/no casing bond observed or
failed AIT, perform remedial perf and
wash cement job at 13 3/8” shoe
• Review old CBL log
• Cut and retrieve tubing
• Acquire conventional CBL and Pulse
Echo / Flexural Attenuation logs for
cement evaluation
• If good casing bond observed in
zone(s) of interest, conduct AIT test
and set balance cement plug along
annular bond
• If poor/no casing bond observed or
failed AIT, perform remedial perf and
wash cement job at 13 3/8” shoe
9 5/8”
shoe
9 5/8”
TOC
13 3/8”
shoe Zechstein
Salts
Zechstein
Salts
Leman
Sandstone
(Reservoir)
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• Cement log at time of well completion
showing free pipe (not cemented)
• CBL > 50mV (free pipe)
• CBL < 10mV (good cement)
13 3/8”
shoe Zechstein
Salts
Case Study – 1987 vs 2017 log
GR
TT
CBL 0 – 50mV
VDL
60 mV
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Case Study – 1987 vs 2017 log
GR
TT
CBL 0 – 50mV
VDL
60 mV
GR
TT CBL
0 – 100mV VDL
Cement
Map
The same interval logged in 2017 (30yrs later) shows the presence of
solids and some degree of good casing bond suggesting formation has
crept in against 9 5/8” casing
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9 5/8”
shoe
9 5/8”
TOC
13 3/8”
shoe
Zechstein
Salts
Zechstein
Salts
Leman
Sandstone
(Reservoir)
Case Study - Results
GR Casing
ID
CBL BI VDL Cement Map
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9 5/8”
shoe
9 5/8”
TOC
13 3/8”
shoe
Zechstein
Salts
Zechstein
Salts
Leman
Sandstone
(Reservoir)
Case Study - Results
Poor bond / absence of solids
due to double casing
GR Casing
ID
CBL BI VDL Cement Map
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9 5/8”
shoe
9 5/8”
TOC
13 3/8”
shoe
Zechstein
Salts
Zechstein
Salts
Leman
Sandstone
(Reservoir)
Case Study - Results
Presence of solids / salt
GR Casing
ID
CBL BI VDL Cement Map
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9 5/8”
shoe
9 5/8”
TOC
13 3/8”
shoe
Zechstein
Salts
Zechstein
Salts
Leman
Sandstone
(Reservoir)
Case Study - Results
Need to identify > 200ft of cumulative good bond
to satisfy Oil and Gas UK abandonment
guidelines
GR Casing
ID
CBL BI VDL Cement Map
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Case Study - Results
> 200ft of good annular salt bond was achieved over 340ft long interval tested
Perf
Perf
Successful
Annular
Integrity Test
@ 500psi
GR Casing
ID
CBL BI VDL Cement Map
Creeping salts can act as annular barrier for abandonment
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Case Study - Summary
• Set 940ft balanced cement plug
adjacent to annular salt bond
• Well successfully abandoned with salt
as annular sealing barrier
• Significant cost savings made by not
performing remedial cement job
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Conclusion
Creeping salts are not always your enemies. They could actually
be your buddies ……..
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the management of Spirit Energy
for permission to share this document/knowledge
The authors also thank colleagues in Spirit Energy and
Schlumberger Wireline for their support
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Thank you