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Abstract.
Pamusian Field is located in the northern part of North Kalimantan, Zona 10, Pertamina Hulu Indonesia
area, approximately 1 km Southeast from center of Tarakan City. Pamusian field is one of the top ten Fields
(Kalimantan Area under Pertamina EP operation Area) based on its OOIP, 553 MMSTB with more than
1200 wells drilled since 1905 (brown field). However, this role doesn’t mean Pamusian production stands
at a tremendous number of productions. Moreover, only 50 active wells contribute to Pamusian oil
production. More than 1000 wells are idle even though there are bunch of oil opportunities on the idle wells.
As an overall, Pamusian oil production remained constant for around 500 BOPD at 3 years back before
massive reactivation delivered in 2021.
At the end of 2020, aligned with the company’s goal to maximize existing Assets, the idea of production
optimization was commissioned by improving the success ratio of well reactivation job in Pamusian Field.
In the last 3 years, the success ratio of well reactivation jobs was not encouraging. The team focused on all
aspects of optimization and reactivation practices. Field Review and Reactivation Lookback are
aggressively conducted to figure out Pamusian Field problems. Lack of workover and well intervention
jobs, inadequate surveillance data, and a misperception of well reactivation methods are raised as the root
causes for underdeveloped fields. Another surprising fact is more than a hundred attic wells located up dip
in the main closure are not active (idle), which has lower surrounding well in a good oil production
performance (10-30 BOPD) BOPD with various of water cut 90%. Again, this is real opportunity! low
hanging fruit to become more oil by producing those wells.
An integrated and comprehensive assessment was successfully delivered. The most important outcome of
this assessment is reactivation method recommendation, it’s called Locomotive (Low Cost, Massive
Impact, & Innovative).
Three innovations were created and delivered to conduct well reactivation jobs in the Pamusian field, there
are Subsurface Data Hierarchy Development (to set subsurface confident level), Fill up Annulus Activity
(to check fluid sample), and Locomotive Risk Mapping Assessment (to set priority by comparing confident
& impact level) as a decision tool. These reactivation methods deliver a high confidence level of success.
Resulting a dramatic rise of success ratio up to 80% (previously 30% at 3 years back) and oil gain average
150 – 200 BOPD which remained stable for several months until early 2022.
The main formation to become a productive reservoir of this field is Tarakan Formation. The Tarakan
Formation consists of interbedded clay, shale, sandstone, and lignite coal layers, which indicates the
depositional environment was fluvial until delta plain. Based on well log data, clastic sediment lithology is
dominated by sandstone and shaly sand, which generally acts as a para-sequence boundary of one with
another para-sequence. In general, GR Log shapes evaluation indicates 3 types of sand distribution, blocky
sand as dominant facies, bell-shape, and symmetrical. Based on well-to-well correlation evaluation,
Tarakan formation is relatively continuous and connected among wells, especially in shallow prospect zone
as the main contributor of production in the Pamusian Field (Fig 2.).
The shallow prospect zone includes the reservoirs as follows, 90 Mz, 110 Mz, 130 Mz, 165 Mz, 235 Mz,
290 Mz, 340 Mz, and 460 Mz, which all current active wells are producing from these reservoirs/zones
(Fig.3). The major challenge of the shallow prospect zone is typically a sand problem that leads to
generating skin problems. That’s why all of the wells in Pamusian field are completed with a downhole
sand screen on an open hole section (standalone screen). However, the driving mechanism of this shallow
prospect zone is strong water drive support. It’s really significantly become a strength of Field Pamusian
because the majority of wells have a good static fluid level which indicates good reservoir pressure. As
shown on the table-1, there are no gaps between the initial and current formation pressure. Both of them
have similar pressure such a 0.98 SG equivalent pressure.
Since the field’s start up in 1905, Pamusian Field has successfully drilled 1271 wells and distributed in 15
prospect reservoirs with various depths of 50 m to 1400 mMD in the Tarakan and Santul Formation (Fig.
4). Even though a thousand wells drilled in Pamusian, there are only 47 actives wells with production 447
bopd in the end of 2020 (average production 10 bopd per well) and Recovery Factor (RF) 37% which
indicates a bunch of opportunities should be unlocked to increase production and RF by reactivating
suspended wells.
Many years back, the reactivation job of suspended wells has been executed for many wells. Unfortunately,
the success ratio of these reactivation jobs is not promising yet, success ratio < 30% (table.2). This fact
becomes our background to perform massive reactivation to achieve a higher success rate. More wells
reactivated, more oil will be delivered. Looking at current condition of suspended well, the potency looks
promising because of more than a hundred attics wells located up dip in main closure not active (idle) has
lower surrounding well with a good oil production performance.
Scope
For more than 1 year, suspended for various reasons, this reactivation job can be defined as reactivating
inactive wells. This typical reactivation is executed without doing reservoir intervention such as water shut
off, reperforation, adding perforation, stimulation, fracturing, etc. The scope of this reactivation includes
cleaning the wellbore by the sand fill up, fish/junk, screen job, swabbing job, and a downhole pump as an
artificial lift (Fig.5).
Methodology
In the event of production increasing effort through a massive reactivation campaign in Pamusian Field,
here are some steps in delivering good candidates:
1. Lookback Previous Reactivation Job
Conducting a lookback for previous reactivation jobs are very critical step before delivering good
candidates. As part of the continuous improvement process, taking a lesson learned of success or failed job
is important. There will be some specific parameter correlations identified during this process. The
evaluated parameters were correlated to the oil gain result of the previous reactivation job. This process is
evaluated to accelerate finding out correlated parameters which has boundary of limited subsurface data.
Those parameters include well location in depth structure, production history, well integrity & fish/junk
problem cumulative oil production, latest oil saturation based on saturation log result, injection response,
etc. Here are some lesson learned taken of previous reactivation job (Fig. 6):
• Lookback & lesson learned from PAM-1043
This is typical of reopening job which refers to cased hole saturation log result. In 2019, oil saturation 340
Mz was at 40%, which has been promising. This well is located at lower attic and is surrounded by 2 good
oil producing wells; PAM-0213/II with a production of 25 bopd, and PAM-0933 with a production of 15
BOPD. From this data, it was decided to reopen 340 MZ in PAM-1043, which generated an average
normalized oil gain of 15 BOPD.
• Lookback & lesson learned from previous job
Well in attic/up dip of structure statistically delivered higher oil gain
Water injection well had a good response either gross or net production
Most of failure jobs were caused by unsuccessful fishing job
There were some dynamic fluid level response from nearby injector
4. Field Survey
Field survey aims to direct site visit for the sake of fill up annulus check and access & location check.
- Fill up annulus check
This procedure is to fill up the well annulus with water to determine the original wellbore fluid whether
water or oil (Fig. 8). Injected water to the annulus will fulfill until overflow happened in the surface. If oil
as the original fluid in the wellbore, overflow will be oil as well since oil less dense than water.
Early step of this procedure is perform Sonolog test to determine fluid level and wellbore pressure. Fluid
level data is necessary to ensure the required volume of water is injected while wellbore pressure is
maintained to ensure all operational jobs are working safely and properly.
5. Risk Mapping
As part of delivering high-quality candidates, this step is very critical. This is a step on how to generate low
risk & high impact candidates. In line with Pertamina Upstream Production Way (PUPW), 3 main step of
reactivation candidacy process should be completed such as determining potency, economic assessment,
and prioritization. The prioritization is translated into this risk mapping and named it with Locomotive Risk
Mapping (LRM) (Fig. 9). Locomotive means Low Cost, Massive Impact, & Innovative because LRM
generates low-risk high-impact candidates with innovative methods.
LRM consists of 2 main assessments such as Confident Level and Impact Level. Confident Level includes
subsurface assessment, well history/integrity assessment, fill-up annulus result, and surface assessment.
These parameters all set by certain scoring criteria to guide us in fulfill this LRM (table 3). While impact
level quantifies economic assessment which consists of an estimated cost and an oil gain function.
Wells that have high confident level and impact level should be plotted at the upper right which means low
risk and high impact candidates.
All wells on that quadrant will be prioritized using a multiplier number of Confident Level and Impact
Level. This number is called LRM Value.
Confident Level
• High confident level (low risk) : score 2.7-3.0
• Medium confident level (medium risk) : 2.4 ≤ score < 2.7
• Low confident level (high risk) : score < 2.4
Impact Level (Discounted Profitability Index/DPI)
• High : DPI ≥ 3.5
• Medium : 2.5 ≤ DPI < 3.5
• Low : DPI ≤ 2.5
To sum up, Locomotive method is an integrated, comprehensive, and quick method to reactivate suspended
wells in Pamusian Field (Fig.10). By implementing this method, high quality of candidates will be delivered
with some benefits such as simple screening and simple job, no need to rent equipment for SBHP record,
generating hundreds well candidates, simple decision tool (Locomotive Risk Mapping).
All in all, there were so many cases and lessons learned taken during reactivation job campaign in 2021.
Here are some positive takeaways of this reactivation campaign (Fig. 14):
1. Increase the success ratio from 30% to become 81%
2. Deliver normalized oil gain about 200 BOPD
3. Contribute to peak production of Tarakan Field up to 2100 BOPD (previously 1800 bopd)
4. Improve cycle time of operational rig job from 9.5 days/job to become 6.05 days/job
Not only contributing to the production and operation, but also other positive impacts achieved from
reactivation job such as asset protection from land encroachment issue and additional active wells for
workover/well intervention candidates.
Recommendations
The reactivation campaign has succeeded in being a pioneer in bringing up greater opportunities in
Pamusian Field. The success of reactivation jobs is able to prove most of the wells and the productive zone
has great potential prospects. Wells reactivation with high influx/productivity index become candidates for
further production optimization programs such a like gross-up production. In the end, reactivation job will
be able to maximize oil recovery in the Pamusian Field with the existing surface facility capacity. The next
plan to further improve the production is by improving surveillance data such as cased hole saturation log,
SBHP record, and injection support.
Acknowledgments
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Figures
Figure 1: Pamusian Field Location part of Tarakan Field, Zona 10, Pertamina Hulu Indonesia
Figure 2: Well to well correlation of Pamusian Field
Figure 3: Shallow Prospect Zone
Figure 4: Total wells vs Depth
Figure 5: Typical completion and reactivation job in Pamusian Field
Figure 6: Lesson learned of previous reactivation job
Figure 7: Subsurface Data Hierarchy
Figure 8: Illustration of Fill up Annulus
Figure 9: Locomotive Risk Mapping (LRM)
Figure 10: Flow process of Locomotive Risk Mapping
Figure 11: 1st Case Data
Figure 12: 2nd Case Data
Figure 13: 3rd Case Data
Figure 14: 4th Case Data
Figure 15: Positive impact of reactivation job
Tables
Table 1: Initial and current formation pressure
Table 2: 3 Years of reactivation performance lookback
Table 3: Locomotive Risk Mapping Scoring Criteria
Table 4: Summary of Well Reactivation Job
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Table 1
Current Reservoir
Current Reservoir Current and Initial Initial Reservoir
Datum Water Cut Pressure Estimation
Field Name Pay Zone Condition Pressure Comparisson Pressure
(Latest RDT Jan 2019)
m, TVDSS Drop Down List Drop Down List Drop Down List psi psi
Oversaturated
Pamusian 110 Mz 112 WC > 75% Pressure Drop <20% 156 153
(P > Pb)
Oversaturated
Pamusian 130 Mz 132 WC > 75% Pressure Drop <20% 184 174.94
(P > Pb)
Oversaturated
Pamusian 165 Mz 170 WC > 75% Pressure Drop <20% 237 236
(P > Pb)
Oversaturated
Pamusian 235 Mz 240 WC > 75% Pressure Drop <20% 335 334
(P > Pb)
Oversaturated
Pamusian 290 Mz 288 WC > 75% Pressure Drop <20% 401 400
(P > Pb)
Oversaturated
Pamusian 340 Mz 340 WC > 75% Pressure Drop <20% 474 473
(P > Pb)
Oversaturated
Pamusian 460 Mz 472 WC > 75% Pressure Drop <20% 658 657
(P > Pb)
Table 2
Year Wells Job Days Cum Oil (bbls) Rig Cost (USD) Revenue (USD) Profit (USD) Success Ratio
2020 10 81 10767 116,219 322,999 206,781 30%
2019 5 35 0 65,141 - - 65,141 0%
2018 5 8 0 22,953 - - 22,953 0%
Production History Production profile, influx/productivity index, Good Medium Poor/not available
initial production, last production, water cut,
cummulative oil production
Scoring Guideline - Subsurface Assessment (with expert judgement) :
Score 3 in LRM if total assessment value : 11-15
Score 2 in LRM if total assessment value : 9-11
Score 1 in LRM if total assessment value : 5-8
Table 5
DPI
Productive Job Duration, days Days Prod (days) Cum (bbl) Cost (USD) Days Prod Cum (bbl) Cum (bbl) Cost (USD)
NO Well Success Success Note
Zone Jan-Dec 2021 Jan-Dec 2021 Jan- Dec 2021 Jan-Mar 2022 Jan-Mar 2022 to 365 days to 365 days
Moving Job ≥1.2
1 PAM-0132/I 460 MZ 2 5 365 264 10,938 90 0.0 264 10937.6 0.9 failed Suddenly massive sand problem
2 PAM-0157/II 235 MZ 1 3 67 163 6,250 90 566.4 1863 6250.0 4.1 success
3 PAM-0129/II 460 MZ 1 2 341 6678 4,688 90 789.9 7468 4687.5 19.4 success
4 PAM-0173/I 340 MZ 2 4 327 5974 9,375 90 786.3 6760 9375.1 9.1 success
5 PAM-1047 110 MZ 1 6 316 11769 10,938 90 2450.8 14220 10937.6 15.9 success
6 PAM-0189/II 340 MZ 2 6 304 3925 12,500 90 1242.4 5167 12500.1 5.5 success
7 PAM-0235/II 340 MZ 1 9 278 3489 15,625 90 0.0 3489 15625.1 3.2 success
8 PAM-0972 90 MZ 1 5 271 2489 9,375 90 328.7 2824 9375.1 4.1 success
9 PAM-1044 380 MZ 1 13 238 0 21,875 90 0.0 0 21875.1 0.6 failed Fish couldn’t be recovered
10 PAM-0251 340 MZ 1 4 228 414 7,813 90 0.0 414 7812.6 1.2 success
11 PAM-0224/II 340 MZ 1 11 157 1363 18,750 90 493.9 2238 18750.1 2.0 success
12 PAM-0165/II 110 MZ 1 2 157 1544 4,688 90 1512.4 5486 4687.5 14.4 success
13 PAM-0996 460 MZ 1 2 96 704 4,688 90 959.7 4114 4687.5 11.0 success
14 PAM-0132/II 340 MZ 2 5 105 0 10,938 90 0.0 0 10937.6 0.6 failed Fish couldn’t be recovered
15 PAM-0160/I 235 MZ 2 3 67 692 7,813 90 982.2 3300 7812.6 5.6 success
16 PAM-0727 165 MZ 1 2 67 170 4,688 90 634.3 1494 4687.5 4.4 success
17 PAM-1041 460 MZ 2 3 59 308 7,813 90 107.0 415 7812.6 1.2 success
18 PAM-0766 165 MZ 2 2 54 1160 6,250 90 1142.7 4071 6250.0 8.3 success
19 PAM-0893 340 MZ 2 4 43 1941 9,375 90 3353.0 5294 9375.1 7.3 success
20 PAM-0896 110 MZ 1 2 41 0 4,688 90 0.0 0 4687.5 0.6 failed Water cut 100%
21 PAM-0385 110 MZ 2 4 29 264 9,375 90 368.1 2347 3125.0 3.5 success
Assumption
Oil price 67.9 USD/bbl
Operating cost 31.85 USD/bbl
Rig cost 1562.51 USD/day