How postcapping put Kuwait`s wells back onstream
Journal Article
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· World Oil
OSTI ID:143807
- ABB Vetco Gray Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
In late february 1991, the retreating Iraqi army blew up, or otherwise caused to blowout, some 700 wells in Kuwait. Between March and November, all of the fires were extinguished and the wells were capped. Work began in July 1991 to recomplete the damaged wells with replaced or reworked tubulars and well heads so that production could be resumed. Except for some of the earlier-capped wells into which cement was pumped, thus requiring more extensive downhole work, many of the damaged wells, particularly in Burgan field, were put back into production mode by the procedure described here, which became known as postcapping. This paper describes the equipment and techniques used in postcapping damaged wellheads.
- OSTI ID:
- 143807
- Journal Information:
- World Oil, Journal Name: World Oil Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 215; ISSN 0043-8790; ISSN WOOIAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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