Paper: Multiple Well Completion Applications

The competitive position in which oil companies now find themselves -- with other energy suppliers as well as in their own industry -- has demanded that they deliver, to the market, oil products as efficiently and cheaply as possible. This position has required a look at all phases of the industry: exploration, drilling, production, transportation, refining, manufacturing, and marketing. One factor which has received considerable study and development has been multiple zone completions. Because of its normal application in producing oil, hydraulic pumping has many desirable features as applied to multiple zone completed wells, when artificial lift is required. This paper will discuss some phases of this application.