Drilling High-Angle Wells in an Amazonia Natural Life Reserve
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Abstract
Abstract The Ishpingo-4 and Ishpingo-3 wells were drilled by Petroecuador—Ecuador's state-owned company—in the ITT (Ishpingo-Tiputini-Tambococha) field. This field is located in the Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, which was declared a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1989. The Ishpingo wells were drilled primarily to delineate oil reserves, and the project was managed by Petroecuador and PETROBRAS ENERGIA S.A. (PE) professionals. PE contributed recent experience gained from drilling two appraisal wells, Apaika 1x and Obe 1x, across the lease line. These wells were drilled and tested within the same natural life reserve area with similar heliborne equipment, materials and personnel. To operate in this highly sensitive area, PE and Petroecuador developed a specific Environmental Management Program (EMP) that actively involved environmental authorities and representatives from native communities. The EMP was prepared using the PE Integrated HSE Management System certified by ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. To assess the results, audits were jointly conducted by the Ecuadorian government, the native communities and the company. In 1992, two vertical wells—Ishpingo-1 and Ishpingo-2— were drilled in the Ishpingo field. The additional appraisal wells were planned with extended reach trajectories from existing well locations to minimize environmental impact. The logistics, drilling and testing of the two high-angle wells were operationally successful, and the geological target was reached to confirm hydrocarbon occurrence and reserve size. Ishpingo-3 set records in Ecuador as the steepest dip well drilled in a 16-in. section and the steepest dip well out of all high-angle wells drilled in that country. The high-viscosity crude oil—12° API—as well as the high-deviation angle of the wells prevented the use of conventional testing techniques. Therefore, special methods, together with state-of-the-art directional equipment, were employed to determine both deliverability and reservoir boundaries. The effective application of these technologies, with optimum allocation of the resources and good terrestrial-fluvial-aerial logistics, resulted in a highly successful operation overall.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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