Intelligent Completion in Laterals Becomes a Reality

摘要

A producer and a service company have collaborated to develop a downhole system to merge multilateral technology and intelligent completions to create "smart laterals." This approach is known as the extreme-reservoir contact (ERC) approach to reservoir management. The complete paper discusses ERC completion technology that segments laterals into multiple compartments to provide flow rate, pressure, temperature, and water-cut measurements, together with variable choking in each compartment.