Efficient, fit-for-purpose well design requires a combination of experience, expertise, lateral thinking, focus, a full understanding of life-cycle considerations & impacts coupled with optimal engineering philosophy, rationale and methodology.

To date, experience shows that wells may be quite considerably over-designed (for example, casing burst design based on full evacuation to dry gas for an oil reservoir; less than optimal directional drilling reach / contact through the reservoir due to over cautious gas / water coning considerations etc) or under-designed (for example minimalist or zero use of 30" and 20" conductor / surface casing strings on development wells which are subject to high trawl gear impact loadings; non-use of a 7 5/8" x 7" tie-back string prior to a HPHT well test inside 10 ¾" x 9 7/8" casing which has been subject to wear whilst drilling a HPHT Jurassic reservoir etc).

Utilising the breadth and depth of a completely independent company such as IDEAS allows for unbiased review of existing well design, optimal well design to begin with or improved well design if IDEAS are to work with the design engineer(s) / planning team on a consultative basis.

Not only are wells designed from a pure exploration, appraisal or development stand-point, but from a life-cycle perspective too: particularly if appraisal wells are to be suspended for future production and development wells are to yield maximum productivity over time with minimal / zero work-over / intervention.

Being completely independent, IDEAS is well placed to bridge the gaps which occur in today’s Operating Companies and, through our Operating Company / Governmental liaison experience, we are very well placed to assist those newer companies such as Drilling Contractors and Service Companies which have been recently appointed to carry out the work which was formerly the province of the Operators.

Our holistic life-cycle experience from the reservoir to the choke is available on a 24 hr / 365 day world-wide basis.