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Introduction
The Lisburne carbonate reservoir has
approximately 2 billion bbl of original
oil in place. The Wahoo formation, at
a depth of approximately 8,900 ft true
vertical depth (TVD), is tight, fairly
thick (400 ft), and highly consolidated,
with thin interbedded mudstone layers.
Reservoir fluid is mainly oil with a gas
cap covering a portion of the field. The
gas contains approximately 60 ppm H2S
and 12% CO2.
Previous drilling in the reservoir
was overbalanced. Lisburne is a hardrock carbonate with unconfined compressive strengths from 15,000 to
This article, written by Assistant
Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 108337,
Coiled-Tubing Underbalanced-Drilling
Applications in the Lisburne Field, Alaska,
by Mark Johnson, SPE, BP; Patrick
Brand, SPE, Blade; Sam French, SPE
and Greg Sarber, SPE, BP; Dave
Hildreth, SPE, Orbis; Bob Harris,
SPE, Baker Oil Tool; Pedro Rangel,
SPE, Schlumberger; Udo Cassee, SPE,
Nordic; and Jimmy Clark, ASRC, prepared for the 2007 IADC/SPE Managed
Pressure Drilling and Underbalanced
Operations Conference and Exhibition,
Galveston, Texas, 2829 March. The
paper has not been peer reviewed.
8,936 ft MD
Lateral 3
11,500 ft
8,960 ft MD
9,748 ft MD
Lateral 2
9,097 ft MD
Lateral 1
10,875 ft MD
For a limited time, the full-length paper is available free to SPE members at www.spe.org/jpt.
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