Construction and development of an offshore oil or gas field is both technically and economically challenging.
Minimising non-productive time requires thorough pre-spud planning to identify both the potential drilling issues and the geological hazards to develop contingency plans for the associated risks.
Utilising our software, Elfen Horizon, the whole life of the field can be simulated from well planning to production to abandonment. Elfen Horizon offers an efficient and intuitive UI and analysis tool to gain an understanding of the subsurface material and stress state. Elfen Horizon can provide operational limits to mitigate the potential risks from well instability, fault slip, reservoir compaction and mudline subsidence.
Simulate the whole life of the offshore field from planning to abandonment
Features and Benefits
- Log and seismic data can be imported directly to initialise the material and stress conditions
- Assessment of the subsurface material and stress state at both preproduction and throughout production
- Enhanced understanding of the geomechanical environment identifying regions of stress arching and assessment of caprock integrity
- Capture subsidence and compaction to assess its impact upon subsea infrastructure over the duration of the field
- Provide limits on depletion and/or injection levels
- Well trajectory assessment and planning of potential infill drilling
- Identify fault slip and fault reactivation and assess its impact upon the performance of the well string
- Undertake sensitivity studies to minimise the risk over the lifespan of the field
- Ability to link to industry standard reservoir simulators
Our Software
Elfen’s flexibility and modelling power has allowed it to be successfully utilised in a wide range of industries. We have developed specialist software modules to cater towards your specific industry.
Elfen Horizon
Using our geomachenical finite software Elfen Horizon offers an efficient and intuitive UI and analysis tool to gain an understanding of the subsurface material and stress state. Application to predict static/dynamic response of subsurface at reservoir scale and through the utilization of coupled processes.
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