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The New Energy Future
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Focus on Gas to Liquids (GTL)
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Focus on Snake Well Drill
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Films and Games
Explore the Snake Well Drill
Explore the Snake Well Drill
Slide 1
The CW-31 snake well featured in the Eureka film is located 90 kilometres offshore in the Champion West field, at a water depth of 50 meters.
The well first began producing at some 15,000 barrels of oil per day, 60per cent higher than initial estimations.
Slide 2
The well is eight kilometres long, plunging down to a depth of over four kilometres before snaking laterally through the reservoir to reach a number of different oil pockets.
The well is fitted with Smart FieldsÆ technology including valves to control the inflow of oil, pressure gauges and fibre-optic sensors.
Slide 3
It is estimated that Champion West can produce oil for at least another 20 years.
Current Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) production is around 200,000 barrels per day; over time almost a quarter of BSPís production is expected to come from Champion West.
Slide 4
The Champion West platform is unmanned. The well is controlled remotely from onshore Seria in Brunei.
Slide 5
The Champion West field was discovered in 1975 but technological advances such as the Snake Well only recently made production viable.
Jaapís task now is to roll the technology out all over the world to help other countries access previously unreachable oil.
Slide 6
The well passes through each of several reservoir units multiple times, allowing many individual drainage points.
The snake well bends around 1.5 degrees every 10 meters. This gentle turn enables the Smart Well technology to be smoothly placed in the well.
