Quartz8.

School for Well

Sub Sea Well HeadSite Supervisors
Installations

Module – 12
Well Completions

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Section – 8
Sub Sea Well Heads

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Contents
y Offshore Operations Evolution

y Why go Subsea?

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y Subsea Development Options

y Subsea System Overview

y Technical Challenges

y Schlumberger Subsea

y SRC
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Offshore Operations Evolution
Offshore Deepwater Subsea

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Deepwater Potential

US Reserves 1977 Added 77-97

Lower 48 23.4 35.9
4.2 Alaska 8.4 8.8
Peak U.S.

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Production Modeled
Alaska
Deepwater
Billions of bbls

3.6 Peak
Production
Horizontal Impact
Wells
3.0

2.4

Total U.S.
Lower 48 GOM: 20-46 Billion bbls
1.8
Global: 200+ Billion bbls

1949 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Subsea Market

Total Worldwide Subsea Completions

2000
1800

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1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
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0
1960- 1965- 1970- 1975- 1980- 1985- 1990- 1995- 2000-
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

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Subsea Development Options

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Deepwater Head Installations
Development Options

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Tension Leg Platform
(TLP)
Tanker FPSO
Semi submersible FPS
Spar

Fixed Platform
Subsea Tieback

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Deepwater Development Options

Fixed Platforms Current Depth

Tension Leg Potential Depth

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Platforms

Tanker FPSO

Semisub FPS

SPAR

Subsea Tieback

0 3000 6000 9000

Water Depth ft
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Subsea System Overview

y Wells
y Subsea Production trees
y Tiebacks

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y Templates
y Manifolds
y Pipelines
y Control Systems
y Umbilical
y Control Pods
y Pumps
y Separators
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Sub Sea Tree Design Options

Conventional (Concentric) Tree Horizontal (Spool) Tree

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Conventional Trees
y Tubing Hanger installed in the
Wellhead
y Flow Control valves in line with
tubing
y

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Consist of three sub-systems
1. Surface Equipment
y Surface Flow Tree
y Swivel
y Coiled Tubing Lifting Frame
2. Riser System
y Dual bore risers and
monobosre risers
3. Subsea Equipment
y Lower Riser Package
y Emergency Disconnect
Package
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Horizontal Trees

y Tubing Hanger is landed in the

tree
y Flow Control valves are outside

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of the tubing flow path
y Configuration allows for full bore
access to tubing hanger
y Well intervention without
disturbing tree, flow line
connections or umbilical
y Reduce cost and tree size
y Allows for 7” production tubing
y Higher production per tree

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Tiebacks
y Simple wellhead / pipeline
configurations are often not
practical
y Water depth

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y Environment
y Subsea Solution – Tiebacks
y Multiple wellheads
connected to a manifold by
flowlines
y Production connected to
y Floating Production
Systems
y Neighboring Platforms
y Onshore facilities
y Record distance 68 miles
(GOM Mensa field)
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Templates and Manifolds
Templates Manifolds
y Provide support for manifolds y Interface between the production
and wells pipeline, flow line and the well.
y Can be deployed in 2500 m water y Collect and distribute produced fluids from

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depth individual subsea wells
y Inject gas, inject chemicals and control
fluids.
y Distribute the electrical and hydraulic
systems.

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Control Systems
y Downhole valves, valves on tree, flow
lines and manifolds are controlled
hydraulically from surface

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y Topside controls linked to Subsea
Control Modules (SCM) with Umbilical

y Dual redundant, electro-hydraulic

computerized systems:
y Control Valves
y Monitor instruments
y Send data (P, T, Flow Control and
Sand detection)

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Subsea Challenges

y Zero tolerance for compromising

safety
y Complexity of Offshore
environment

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y Well Accessibility
y Weather, Currents
y Technology
y Hydrates, Scales, Corrosion
y Multi-zone production
y Hostile, unconsolidated
y Extended Reach operations
y Risks
y Little previous experience
y Financial Exposure

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Schlumberger Subsea

y Johnston introduced Subsea Safety Trees to the industry in 1974.

y The E-Z TREE allowed floating drilling vessel to quickly leave
location for the DST Exploration Market.

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y The latest product is now called SenTREE 3.

y In Q3 1996, SBC (Subsea Business Center) was formed in

Aberdeen to Develop Subsea Well Control Systems for
Development Wells and Intervention Market.
y Responsible for Marketing and System Level Development.

y SRC (then SPT) was responsible for Development and

Manufacturing of the critical Subsea Products.
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Schlumberger Subsea
• Core competency at the moment
y Completion Installations
y Exploration testing using the
SenTree3
y

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Well Control and Intervention using
the SenTREE 7 systems
y Light Weight Intervention

y The Commander Telemetry presents

opportunities for Subsea Power and
Control Systems

y Schlumberger’s Subsea role is best

described with the name:
y Subsea Completion Management
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Providing Access
y Beyond 4000 ft, floating installations
are kept on station using DP
technology
y Requires different techniques to

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provide access, well shut-in and
emergency disconnects
y Primary Subsea Safety System:
y Isolates landing string from
completion
y Rapid Disconnect
y Prevents Discharge
y Allows Reconnection
y Two Systems
y SenTree 3
y SenTREE 7
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SenTREE 7 primary functions
Applications
y Testing
y Installing Completion
y Well Intervention

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It is the primary subsea safety
device and provides fast acting
and reliable means to:
y Shut-in the well with two
barriers
y Prevent discharge of its
contents into the riser
y Disconnect the landing
string from the test string.
y Allows Chemicals to be
pumped into the landing
string.
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SenTREE 7 Operation

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Emergency Disconnect

Ball Valve
Operational Overview

Latch

Flapper Valve

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Subsea Technology at SRC
y SenTREE 7 System
Engineering
y Subsea Accumulator
Module - SAM

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y Subsea Control Module -
SCM
y Subsea Spanner Joint
y Ball, Retainer and Flapper
Valves
y Deep Water Control
System - DWCS
y Building of SenTREE 7 Systems
y Acceptance and System
Integration Tests

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