Intelligent design optimizes production

摘要

Intelligent well completion technology enables operators to actively monitor and selectively modify the zones from which hydrocarbons are produced while a well is onstream, without intervention. As such, intelligent well completion systems are a powerful complementary technology to the evolving capabilities of electric submersible pump (ESP) artificial lift. The synergy of combining intelligent well completions with ESPs results from the capability to restrict or exclude production from specific zones experiencing water or gas breakthrough. Control of water and/or gas production permits more efficient operation of the downhole pump and improves ultimate recovery of hydrocarbons.