New Horizontal Well Completion Technologies and Research Prospects in China

Abstract

Well Completion is an important work in the process of oil and gas well drilling, which is directly related to the development of oil and gas exploration effect and economic benefit. Petroleum Engineers in Foreign country attach great importance on the well completion technology, in recent years, well completion technology has development in the domestic too, especially the horizontal well completion technology had formed many mature technologies, particularly in the special reservoir sand control completion, unconventional reservoir fracturing completion, bottom water reservoir simulation completion, thermal recovery well completion, and smart completion, however, although these completion technology has made some progress, there is still a big gap that compare to completion technology in the foreign countries, that affected the yield and economic benefit of oil and gas wells to a certain extent. In this paper, this paper introduces the present horizontal well completion technology at home and abroad, and analyzing well completion technology difference between the domestic and foreign, discussesing the future research direction of well completion technology.