Salt well VE-5 and VE-7 delivery 2022
Start Engineering: 2016
End execution:September 2022
Objective: Delivery of two salt wells
Depth (MD): VE-5 2720m VE-7 2575m
Depth (TVD): VE-5 1823m VE-7 1990m
| Client: | Nedmag B.V. |
| Location: | WHC-1/Borgercompagnie |
| Well: | VE-5 and VE-7 |
| Start Engineering: | 2016 |
| End Execution: | September 2022 |
| Objective: | Drill two wells from Nedmag’s WHC-1 location into the Zechstein III. |
| Depths (MD): | 2720m (VE-5), 2575m (VE-7) |
| Depths (TVD): | 1823m (VE-5), 1990m (VE-7) |
| Role of WEP: | Project management, well engineering, procurement support, planning , work program and HSE documents. Drilling supervision support onsite and drilling management/engineering from the office. |
| Challenges: | Drilling large bore S-shape trajectory. Shallow kick off. High inclination. Well being vertical at target. |
Project Description
The objective of this project was to drill two wells from Nedmag’s WHC-1 location into the Zechstein III. The wells were planned to be drilled in four stages and to have a concentric completion with a 26” stove pipe, 20”, 16” and 10 3/4” x 9 5/8” casing, a 7” injection string, a 5” x 3 1/2” production string and a 2 7/8” dilution string. In both wells in total 7 core runs were made. The objective was achieved succesfully.
Both wells were drilled with KCA Deutag’s T-700 rig, which has a fully automated pipe handling system. The rig hydraulically skidded 18 m between the two wells.
