Taking the guesswork out of leak description

摘要

Acoustic technology shows new benefits. Well integrity and flow assurance become an issue on many wells as age and well complexity increase. This can lead to expensive workovers, reduced production or well loss. These outcomes are troubling because they affect overall costs, revenue generation and return on investment. In many cases, workovers take more time than planned and complexity may be greater because the problem is not clearly understood prior to the start of well operations. When the leak is cloaked behind pipe, several layers of pipe or completion hardware, the capability to detect the leak and understand what is occurring decreases.