Sabriya 72 (SA-72) is a deep vertical high pressure well originally drilled in North Kuwait in 1983 which was temporarily abandoned due to stuck pipe. The last intermediate casing was set prematurely above the base of a critical highly pressured salt section. Due to the importance of the SA-72 location to appraise a newly discovered field, economics favored re-entering this well in 2003 and sidetracking directionally to intersect suspected fractures in the Jurassic Marrat carbonate formation. The main challenges of this well were to sidetrack to the target depth without compromising well integrity, and to test the well with the largest production liner possible.
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