Noble drives down completion time for Tamar 8 well by adopting new designs for temporary P&A, BHAs

摘要

SINCE NOBLE ENERGY'S TAMAR FIELD offshore Israel was brought online in 2013, the natural gas produced from the field has provided 60% of Israel's electricity. To continue meeting the country's gas demand, Noble announced in 2016 that it would drill the Tamar 8 well. This provided Noble with an opportunity to optimize the well's completion design and methodology. In a presentation on 6 March at the 2018 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, Ian Magin, Deepwater Completions Engineer for Noble, said that the operator made key changes on Tamar 8, including drilling and underreaming on the same trip and developing a new plan for temporary plug-and-abandonment (P&A) between drilling and completing the well.