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HALLIBURTON COMPLETES RECORD-BREAKING DEEPWATER HORIZONTAL OPENHOLE GRAVEL PACK
Houston, Texas - Halliburton Energy Services has performed the longest openhole horizontal gravel pack in the Gulf of Mexico in a well completed from Shell's Ram-Powell tension leg platform about 80 miles south of Mobile, AL.
Not only does the successful sand control completion constitute the longest horizontal openhole gravel pack 2,400 ft production is from the deepest water depth to date in the Gulf of Mexico, 3,214 ft. This water depth surpasses the previous record for a deepwater completion in the Gulf of Mexico, 2,940 ft, also performed by Halliburton.
Production from the well as reported by the operator, Shell Deepwater Production Company in New Orleans, is 56 MMCFD and 7,300 BOPD.
Travis Hailey, Halliburton's sand control product manager, reported that openhole gravel packs have become a viable completion design for sand control in horizontal wells. Horizontal gravel packs are similar to vertical gravel packs except the horizontal hole presents sand transport problems because gravity does not assist the packing process. Hailey added that the treatments must be designed with rates sufficient to provide proppant transport throughout the interval and fluid loss must be controlled to stop the formation of bridges in the annulus.
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., a Halliburton Company organization (NYSE:HAL), is a leading supplier of products, services, and integrated solutions to the energy industry on a global basis.
Contact
Cindy Viktorin
Public Relations
(p) 713.676.7125
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