The K-BOS provides the ability to shear anything which enables drilling engineers to consider optimizations to a well design / completion or intervention. Opportunities such as landing a longer and heavier production casing into the hydrocarbon zone or even removing a casing string, may have been previously unacceptable due to unshearable exposure. Considering drilling systems with limited shearing capability like the 13-5/8″ 10,000 psi BOPs typical in surface drilling rigs, there are many fields where the K-BOS enables a revision of design limitations based on unshearable exposure resulting in cost reductions and enhancements to the production profile of a given reservoir.
Improved shear/seal capability and WC barrier enables:
- Larger/thicker-wall casing / production strings
- Completion components
- Tubing + control lines; gravel pack equipment
- Potential enabler for single trip completions
Value: Improved well productivity
- Larger production casing
- Larger tubing (especially in HPHT wells)
- Simplify control system for MUX SSTT
13-5/8″ 10,000 psi K-BOS examples:
Shown above: Shear test result using the 13-5/8″ 10,000 psi K-BOS
18-3/4″ 15,000 psi K-BOS examples:
Shown above: A predictive model of shearing performance (left) of the 18-3/4″ 15,000 psi K-BOS is compared to the results of a shear test (right) using a 16-1/4″ OD 136# Q125 casing.
Shown above: The Kinetic Energy margin of Safety for the 18-3/4″ 15,000 psi K-BOS is shown for a broad set of heavy casings. Notable shearable tubulars include the 10-3/4″ 109# SDSS125.
Shown above: The chart illustrates the relative increase in production achieved by increasing the internal diameter of a given well’s production tubing resulting in improved economics for an entire project.