Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Douglas Hupp

Tarek M Habashy

Dzevat Omeragic

Yong-Hua Chen

Sofia N Davydycheva

Carlos Maeso

Valery Polyakov

Raphael Altman

Raymond Kocian

LWD measurements to be used for proactive well placement while drilling a high angle or horizontal wellbore in a reservoir are defined. An initial reservoir model is provided and a section is extracted for a planned wellbore trajectory. A secondary model is generated for the planned trajectory. An area of interest is identified where statistical uncertainty is high. Possible causes of the statistical uncertainty are identified that are not present in the initial reservoir model. A set of parameters are defined based on the possible causes of statistical uncertainty. The area of interest is logged with LWD tool. Sensitivities of the LWD tool response to a subset of parameters are evaluated by performing tertiary model for a range of the subset of parameters. The most sensitive parameters from the subset of parameters and corresponding measurements are identified. LWD measurements are defined based on the most sensitive parameters.

Formation modeling while drilling for enhanced high angle for horizontal well placement

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Anchorage, AK, United States of America

Douglas Hupp