oa Integrated Approach to Drilling and Completing a Multistage Well

Multistage Stimulation (MSS) has often been viewed as simply running a completion string followed by pumping services. However; the early attempts at uncemented, openhole multistage stimulation completions in the Middle East were met with mixed operational success. It became clear that the standard completion approach and stimulation procedures could not be directly applied. A new set of best practices would be required in these Middle East wells that included a new and integrated, multidisciplinary approach that took a step backwards in the process to the pre-drilling phase, focusing on well planning optimization to maximize the multistage completion technique and ultimately the well productivity.