OIL and gas remain a critical part of the global energy mix, with the Middle East region home to some of the world’s top energy producers.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), energy investment in the Middle East is expected to reach approximately $175 billion in 2024, with traditional energy supplies dominating the region’s exploration and production (E&P) activities.
As Middle East operators pursue more complex, deeper reservoirs to access untapped energy resources in exploited fields, downhole perforating and completions technologies will be vital in securing the region’s energy future and meeting global demand.
A suite of new and existing technologies tailored for the Saudi land market and Middle East operations brings forward automated solutions for the wellsite and clean tunnel perforating systems that can significantly reduce opex in an era of capital discipline.
Three innovative technologies in particular are helping oilfield companies overcome complex well challenges to optimise completions.
REDUCING RIG TIME & CLEANUP COSTS
Perforating technologies have a major impact on efficient production operations. Technologies such as GEODynamics’ Connex® can help oilfield companies in the Middle East tackle tighter, more complex conventional sandstone formations and make wells more productive for greater return on investment.
It’s able to remove the perforation skin to restore a perforation tunnel to near virgin porosity and permeability.
This technological approach works by clearing out the compaction zone in a perforating zone.
A patented charge liner material is deposited along the tunnel, cleaning exothermically when introduced to heat and pressure.
This cleaning action creates significant pressure within and around the tunnel, breaking up and expelling the crushed zone compacted debris back into the well bore.
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