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Challenge:

  • Optimize well perforation interval planning
  • Extend and update existing workflows
  • Improve pore-throat radius predictions and capillary pressure estimation

Solution:  Design and implement a customized solution using the Python AWI to

  • optimize wellbore analysis
  • streamline permeability and pore-throat radius calculation process
  • compute input parameters, capillary pressures, and hydrocarbon column height

Results: The new solution delivers

  • instant permeability and pore-throat calculations for multiple wells
  • streamlined quality control
  • improved trust and confidence in formation evaluations
  • optimized perforation interval planning
Products Used
Techlog Wellbore Software Platform

GUPCO Extends Techlog Wellbore Analysis Workflows with Python AWI

Tailored scripting improves well perforation planning

The Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO) is a joint venture between BP and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), focused on oil and gas exploration and production in Egypt. Its portfolio includes eight operating concessions in the Gulf of Suez, with daily production of over 78,000 barrels of oil per day.

As part of its work on reservoirs such as Asal, Kareem, and Nubia in the Gulf of Suez, GUPCO wanted to optimize its well perforation interval planning. To achieve this, the company's existing workflows needed to be updated to improve its pore-throat radius R35 predictions and capillary pressure estimations.

After meeting with Schlumberger experts it soon became clear that a customized solution, based on the Techlog wellbore software platform and using the Python application workflow interface (AWI), would overcome GUPCO's challenges.

Python workflow extension

Python open-source scripting capabilities are incorporated within the Techlog platform to enable a variety of programming activities, from simple calculations to complex interface and database implementations. The Python editor within the Techlog platform allows access to all data objects, mathematical and statistical routines, petrophysical calculations, and plot objects.

The Schlumberger team worked with GUPCO to optimize key areas of its wellbore analysis workflow using the Python editor. A new, more streamlined process was created to calculate permeability and pore-throat radius R35. A customized script was produced to compute all relevant input parameters in seconds using the Gardner method, as well as the Young’s and Shear moduli, and the capillary pressure and hydrocarbon column height against different reservoir properties.

The Python editor provides a range of features, including the use of scripts to access previously compiled code from languages such as C++ and Fortran. A range of additional tools and library functions is also available via the Python community.

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By extending its well perforation interval planning workflow, GUPCO was able to take advantage of Python scripting capabilities to enable a variety of programming activities.

Improved well perforation

The new workflow allows GUPCO engineers to plot and correlate  data in the same multiwell log viewer and display formations  in a lithological model outlining porosity, hydrocarbon content,  and computed permeability. This enables faster comparisons  and improved quality control, as well as greater trust and  confidence in formation evaluations.

GUPCO can now compute permeability and pore-throat values  for multiple wells—quickly and reliably. As a result GUPCO’s  perforation interval planning has become more accurate,  saving the company time and money.

GUPCO Extends Techlog Wellbore Analysis Workflows with Python AWI
Interactive help tools within the Python script editor.
“The new customized solution allows us to understand reservoir formations much more quickly and accurately. Our well perforation accuracy is improved, saving us time and money and optimizing our production.”

Zarif Elsisi, Senior Petrophysicist GUPCO
Products Used
Techlog
Wellbore software platform

Integrate all wellbore-centric data types into multidiscipline workflows.

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