Modern Drilling and Completion in Contradiction of New Artificial Lift Method Concept

In challenging times of 2020 and inconsistency with the background of a low-oil-price environment, innovative ideas needed to give a second life to all available resources such as unconventional, shallow, depleted, mature, heavy oil and by bypassed oil with a cost-effective manner (usually innovation created to fit needs). U-shaped well a combined with pigging lifting (conceptual study for new artificial lift method) is one of the selected scenarios studied under the objective of innovative, low-cost techniques to overcome many projects challenges. U shaped well accompanied with a new pigging artificial lift method are new concept studied in this lab work. Conceptual model presents many benefits of this new application such as solving most of the current wells and production challenges. The study reflects more well control with two paths, better well stimulation, low fracturing pressure and double rates, inject and lift chemical for clean without intervention, double well life "additional strings", new recompletions without rig, two horizontal side used for production or injection, step change for reservoir monitoring, improving artificial lift performance and allow creating Pigging lift "New artificial lift concept". U shaped well accompanied with a new pigging artificial lift method study shows the following progress: 1. Additional down hole barrier from the deepest point and additional open side keep the well under control more over minimize the existing well control killing procedures with low cost and risk in addition to discarding the CT operations for killing or prepare the well for W/O. 2. Decreasing stimulation pressures needs (double injection rates) and overcome the existing accessibility challenges 3. Allowing pull heading stimulation w/less displacement time and high rate and chimerical batch pumping from one side to another increase well life and eliminate PKRs risk as chimerical batches will be pigger, easier and faster. 4. Additional down hole monitoring system allowing uniform stimulation and discarding the CT operations for well stimulation and cleaning, 5. Avoiding post stimulation damage throughout fast clean-up 6. Ability to stimulate from one side with artificial lift from other side Avoiding the corrosion and erosion by faster operations 7. Allow faster plug and perf. multistage fracturing technology and overcome the unconventional well fracturing which required rate and pressure 8. Eliminate rig usage to pull the frac string to run completions 9. Step change for reservoir mentoring without S/D and real-time Logging, Sampling The deployment of U Shaped Well allows new artificial lift concept (Pigging lift) to apply. This new approach led to improved wells performance also raising efficiency of the use of the existing resources besides saving time and in return cost. This approach helps in improving well utilization and efficiency levels.