Novel Perforation Job Design Leads To Successful TCP Shoot In A 3000 Foot Horizontal Carbonate Producer

A recent horizontal producer well was drilled as part of a multilateral openhole completion pair in the Arabian Gulf area.<br>The casing of the main wellbore could not get to bottom which necessitated the bottom lateral be cased and cemented for<br>isolation purposes and then perforated. The decision to perforate the 3000’ horizontal section was unexpected so supplies were<br>insufficient to perforate this long section using the traditional perforating method.