Operational Insights
Field-proven approaches for improving recovery and accelerating production.
Radial Drilling
- A cost-effective enhanced oil recovery method for improving production from marginal and mature fields.
- Customised hydraulically jetted laterals based on rock mechanics.
- Better results than conventional stimulation in both production gain and sustainability.
- Up to six laterals drilled in three to four days at a cost of approximately USD 150,000.
- Payback in less than two months.
Cluster Drilling
- InVenire has applied cluster drilling to reduce environmental footprints near reserve forests and ecologically sensitive areas.
- Combining clustering with extended-reach wells reduced capital expenditure by nearly 20% for onshore fields.
- The approach advanced commercial production and accelerated the plateau phase by approximately 12–18 months in mature basins such as Assam-Arakan in India.
Assembly-Line Drilling Operations
- InVenire has refined drilling into an assembly-line operation.
- Detailed “drilling-well-on-paper” planning in 30-minute sequences helped reduce flat spots in time-depth curves.
- The method combines conventional and unconventional drilling practices.
- It reduced drilling costs by approximately 30–38% in onshore wells.
Production from Tight Reservoirs
- InVenire's team has extensive experience integrating unconventional practices such as hydraulic fracturing to maximise production from low-permeability reservoirs.
- Customised fracturing designs and in-house formulations of fracturing fluids reduced costs from USD 3 million per well to less than USD 0.8 million per well.
- An internally developed tail-wash procedure has helped sustain production for extended periods.
Early Monetisation of Stranded Gas Discoveries
- Gas-driven power turbines can be co-located at a central processing facility or wellhead cluster when gas evacuation infrastructure is unavailable.
- This reduces the gestation period compared with establishing a conventional gas-based power plant.
- The approach transforms gas molecules into electrons at the field site.
- Aeroderivative gas turbines are flexible, compact and lightweight, and perform well in decentralised power-generation applications.
- Powering the surrounding catchment area reduces dependence on the central grid and significantly lowers transmission and distribution losses.
