SPE Deepwater Drilling and Completions Conference (16DDC)

Abstract Submission Categories

• DRILLING

• Deepwater challenges and well design

• Deepwater drilling challenges

• Deepwater well design

• Directional drilling through evaporites

• Drilling and casing salt

• Drilling of trouble zones

• Pore pressure prediction and determination

• Tar mat management

• Well construction

• Casing drilling

• Decommissioning

• Dual gradient drilling

• Managed pressure drilling

• Offshore Well Plugging and Abandonment

• Subsea well intervention

• Wellbore construction

• Wellbore stability and well integrity

• Creep and creep management in evaporites

• Trapped annular pressure

• Well integrity management

• Wellbore stability

• Wellbore strengthening

• Well control

• Deepwater well control planning, procedures and equipment

• Predicting likely reservoir behavior

• Relief well planning and drilling

• Shallow water flows and shallow gas

• Drilling mechanics and drilling technologies

• Decision making and support systems

• Drill bits

• Drilling fluids for deepwater

• Drilling performance optimization

• Drilling vibration management

• Hole openers and hole opening operations

• Innovative technologies

• Casing and cementing

• Casing and tubulars for deepwater wells

• Casing handling operations and equipment

• Deepwater cements and cementing

• Expandable casing and monobore wells

• COMPLETIONS

• Drilling/completion interface

• Completion fluids technology

• Reservoir drill in fluids

• Displacements and casing cleanup

• Completion design and analysis

• Upper completion design

• Completion performance and reliability

• Completion hardware

• Intelligent completions

• Cased-hole sand control

• Perforation design and analysis

• Frac-packing

• Multizone completions

• Screenless completions

• Gravel packing

• Oriented perforating

• HPHT completions

• Open-hole sand control

• Standalone screens

• Expandable screens

• Gravel packing

• Zonal isolation

• Gravel packing low fracture margin wells

• HPHT completions

• Inflow control device (ICD)

• Injector wells

• Completion design

• Filtercake cleanup techniques

• Injection water quality

• Injection profile diagnosis

• Challenges