Coiled-Tubing Operations in the Panna Field Offshore Western India

Coiled tubing (CT) was used in well interventions offshore western India. Well completions are open hole, open hole with tail pipe, and cased hole with swell packers. CT entry was essential to operate sliding sleeves installed in the completions. The full-length paper documents case studies and reviews attempted solutions such as bottomhole-assembly (BHA) excitation tools and contact-friction reducers to extend reach and increase downhole force.

Synopsis of SPE 100149

Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 100149, "Operability Challenges During Coiled-Tubing (CT) Well Intervention: Panna Field Case Histories From Western India Offshore," by S. Kale, SPE, and R. Proctor, SPE, BJ Services Co., and S. Paliwal, SPE, and S. Nayak, SPE, BG E&P India Ltd., prepared for the 2006 SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubing and Well Intervention Conference and Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, 4-5 April.

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