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    Work-over operations involve recompleting an existing oil or gas well to improve performance and production rates. Common work-over operations include well killing, retrieving or running tubing and completion equipment, re-perforating the wellbore, and performing stimulation operations. Work-overs are typically needed to address mechanical issues like damaged downhole equipment or to stimulate production from a reservoir that is experiencing declining pressure. Maintaining wells through periodic work-overs is important for maximizing the lifetime production from oil and gas reservoirs.

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    Work-over operations involve recompleting an existing oil or gas well to improve performance and production rates. Common work-over operations include well killing, retrieving or running tubing and completion equipment, re-perforating the wellbore, and performing stimulation operations. Work-overs are typically needed to address mechanical issues like damaged downhole equipment or to stimulate production from a reservoir that is experiencing declining pressure. Maintaining wells through periodic work-overs is important for maximizing the lifetime production from oil and gas reservoirs.

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    Work-over operations involve recompleting an existing oil or gas well to improve performance and production rates. Common work-over operations include well killing, retrieving or running tubing and completion equipment, re-perforating the wellbore, and performing stimulation operations. Work-overs are typically needed to address mechanical issues like damaged downhole equipment or to stimulate production from a reservoir that is experiencing declining pressure. Maintaining wells through periodic work-overs is important for maximizing the lifetime production from oil and gas reservoirs.

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    Work-over operations involve recompleting an existing oil or gas well to improve performance and production rates. Common work-over operations include well killing, retrieving or running tubing and completion equipment, re-perforating the wellbore, and performing stimulation operations. Work-overs are typically needed to address mechanical issues like damaged downhole equipment or to stimulate production from a reservoir that is experiencing declining pressure. Maintaining wells through periodic work-overs is important for maximizing the lifetime production from oil and gas reservoirs.

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    Well Work-over

    By

    AKHILOME .E. CHRISTIAN


    S/PED/81002
    PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
    INTRODUCTION • What is WORK OVER

    • WELL KILLING
    • RECOMPLETION
    • RE-PERFORATION
    WORK-OVER
    • STIMULATION,
    OPERATIONS • SQUEEZE CEMENTING,
    • RETRIEVAL/RUNNING OF TUBING
    AND COMPLETION HARDWARE,
    ETC.

    CONTENT WHY
    Reasons for Workover

    OUTLINE WORKOVER

    CONCLUSION
    What is Work-Over
     After drilling a well, the formation is evaluated to know if it
    contains Oil in commercial quantity. If it does, the well is
    completed and placed on stream. At a point in the producing life
    of the well, the initial conditions of the well may change leading
    to a decline in the performance of the well.

     If the reservoir still contains a reasonable amount of hydrocarbon


    something has to be done to improve the performance of the well
    or reservoir.

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    What is Work-Over
     The term Work-over, is used to refer to a kind of well intervention
    that is aimed at enhancing the performance of a well. It involves
    recompleting already completed well for improved performance.

     The process of performing major maintenance or remedial


    treatments on an oil or gas well after initial completion . In many
    cases, work-over implies the removal and replacement of the
    production tubing string after the well has been killed and a
    work-over rig has been placed on location.

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    Work-Over Operations
     The operations involved in maintenance and servicing, repairing,
    installation of down - hole production equipment etc. in an initially
    completed well (production well) is termed as workover operation

     To some degree Workover operations varies depending on the reasons for


    which they are carried out. The first basic operation done during
    Workover is well killing

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     Well killing involves circulating a fluid (called workover fluid e.g. Brine) into
    the well whose weight is appropriate to control the formation pressure.

     The workover begins by removing the well head and possibly the flowline,
    then lifting the tubing head from the casing hanger thus beginning to pull out
    the tubing from the completion.

     Workover Operations involves well kill operation, retrieval of tubing and


    completion hardware, re-perforating, stimulating, running of completion and
    wellhead hardware equipment and tubing

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    Steps in Work-over Operation

     Rig-up Mast
     Well killing
     Rig down of X-mass tree & rig up of BOP
     Circulation
     Tripping of Tubing
     Specified jobs
     Final Running in of Tubing
     Rig down BOP

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    Is it really necessary for us…???

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    Reasons
     Workover operations are carried out for mainly two reasons such as:

    Mechanical Problems

    Reservoir Related Problems

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    a) Repair/Replace of
    damaged equipment
    Mechanical Reasons
    b) Replace artificial lift
    equipments

    Reservoir Related Reasons c) Cement and Casing


    Problems

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    a) Repair natural damage within
    the well
    Mechanical Reasons
    b) Zone Transfer

    Reservoir Related c) Stimulation


    Reasons
    d) Convert well from production to
    injection

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    Zone Transfer
     One of the most common reason for a Workover is to recomplete a well
    from one zone to another.

     Many wells are drilled to intentionally penetrate many zones, but only one
    zone at a time is produced. In some wells, lower zones are produced first.

     When reservoir depleted, they are recompleted (isolated) so that another


    zone farther up can be produced.

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    Re-Completion

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    Replace Artificial lift Equipment
     When a reservoir does not have, or cannot maintain, sufficient drive
    energy to produce at an economical rate, assistance through artificial
    lift is required. There are four basic types of artificial lift:

     Sucker rod pump


     Hydraulic pump
     Electric submersible pump (ESP).
     Gas lift.

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    Stimulation
     Stimulation is a general term describing variety of operations
    performed on a well to improve its productivity.

     It plays a vital role in production operations.

     Production in a damaged or low-producing zone can be increased by


    some techniques as follow:

     (i) Acid Stimulation


     (ii) Hydraulic Fracturing

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    Convert well from production to injection
     Workovers are done to convert producing
    wells to injection wells. In this type of
    workover water, Gas, Chemicals etc. can
    be injected into the reservoir

     For example, such a workover might


    involve converting a producing well
    configured for continuous or intermittent
    gas lift as shown in the figure given on the
    right hand side to a water injection well.

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    Conclusion
    The profitability of a well as an investment venture depends on how
    long it is on stream and on how much it produces. Its lifetime and output
    are naturally due to the reservoir's initial  characteristics. However, they
    are also dependent on keeping the well maintained in good working order
    and adapting completion properly to the constantly varying conditions
    prevailing in the reservoir and around the wellbore.
     
    Although proper drilling, cementing, and completion practices

    minimize the need, virtually every well may need several workovers during
    its lifetime to satisfactorily fulfil its purpose.

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