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    The document summarizes the development of the underground gas storage facility Breitbrunn/Eggstaett in Southern Germany. The operational storage capacity has nearly been doubled to 1.1 billion standard cubic meters through two development phases. The first phase included drilling 5 new wells using foam drilling fluid to overcome low reservoir pressures. The second phase drilled 6 more horizontal wells in deeper horizons using overbalanced drilling and advanced geosteering to navigate within layered reservoirs. Perforations were completed in two stages to allow pressurizing the storage zones individually. Foam cementing was used to isolate the different gas horizons and seal abandoned zones.

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    The document summarizes the development of the underground gas storage facility Breitbrunn/Eggstaett in Southern Germany. The operational storage capacity has nearly been doubled to 1.1 billion standard cubic meters through two development phases. The first phase included drilling 5 new wells using foam drilling fluid to overcome low reservoir pressures. The second phase drilled 6 more horizontal wells in deeper horizons using overbalanced drilling and advanced geosteering to navigate within layered reservoirs. Perforations were completed in two stages to allow pressurizing the storage zones individually. Foam cementing was used to isolate the different gas horizons and seal abandoned zones.

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    The document summarizes the development of the underground gas storage facility Breitbrunn/Eggstaett in Southern Germany. The operational storage capacity has nearly been doubled to 1.1 billion standard cubic meters through two development phases. The first phase included drilling 5 new wells using foam drilling fluid to overcome low reservoir pressures. The second phase drilled 6 more horizontal wells in deeper horizons using overbalanced drilling and advanced geosteering to navigate within layered reservoirs. Perforations were completed in two stages to allow pressurizing the storage zones individually. Foam cementing was used to isolate the different gas horizons and seal abandoned zones.

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    Summary of the poster to be presented at the 17th World Petroleum Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 1-5, 2002

    Block 3 Excelling in Delivering Clean Energy and Quality Products from Natural Gas, Forum 6 Worldwide Gas Production Monitoring and Storage.

    Development of the Underground Gas Storage Breitbrunn / Eggstaett.


    Christof F. Wallmann, RWE-DEA AG, Hamburg, Germany. Summary.
    The former gas field Breitbrunn / Eggstaett in Southern Germany has been converted to an underground gas storage in two subsequent steps. The operational storage capacity nearly has been doubled to 1.1 billion standard m (40 BCF). Withdrawal rates are 520,000 standard m/h (465 MMCFD), injection rates are 250,000 standard m/h (223 MMCFD). The storage facilities are located in an environmentally very sensitive area in close proximity to Lake "Chiemsee". In order to keep the drilling site and the surface facilities as small as possible, a dense well pattern has been designed similar to offshore concepts. Also the buildings' architecture has been chosen to harmonize with the very scenic surrounding landscape.

    Mnchen
    Zorneding
    304

    Bundesrepublik Deutschland

    Wasserburg Wolfersberg
    15 Kartenausschnitt

    Breitbrunn / Eggsttt Breitbrunn Inzenham-West

    8
    Rosenheim

    Prien

    Chiemsee Traunstein

    Erdgasspeicher storages underground gas

    Fig. 1 map of RWE-DEA underground storages After almost 20 years of production from eight gas-bearing sands in the tertiary Chattian (2,000 m TVD, initial reservoir pressure 200 bar = 2,900 psi), the first phase of converting the reservoir for subsurface gas storage started in the mid nineties. During this phase five new wells have been completed. Already then drilling the horizontal sections proved to be challenging. Due to the extremely low reservoir pressure stable foam was selected as the drilling fluid, pumped in a closed system. Consequently differential pipe sticking was of no concern, even at reservoir pressures ranging below 30 bar (435 psi). But the foam compressibility imposed limitations upon the selection of LWD tools. Conventional mud pulse technique was not applicable and well data could only be transmitted by wireless radio communication passing through the overburden to surface. Appropriate MWD tools were on the market at that time, suitable LWD tools however were not. But orientation within the pay zone was possible. The fast mud cycles allowed in almost real time a continuous analysis of the cuttings for specific sediment characteristics and micropaleontological markers defining the top and the base of

    the target, horizon B. The 400 to 600 m long horizontal sections within the pay zone have been left open hole for maximum well productivity, benefiting from a small or no formation damage. Rock mechanic studies did not identify any risk of borehole instability for this horizon. With the additional drilling of six horizontal wells, another two largely depleted horizons have now been converted for underground gas storage. During this second development phase, however, the situation was substantially different. Based on the data gathered from core material of a pilot well and taking into account the far more heterogeneous and layered sandstone discovered in the lower horizons C and D, a completely different technological approach had to be pursued. Instead of drilling at underbalance conditions, high overbalance was applied by choosing a non damaging water based drill-in-fluid providing an extremely thin filter cake (less than 1 mm). With this technique up to 960 m of horizontal sections have been drilled and completed successfully without any problems caused by pressure differentials in the order of 200 bar (2,900 psi) between the wellbore and the reservoir. For the horizontal sections the latest technology in geosteering was applied to keep all well trajectories on target, i.e. real-time data and images from azimuthal resistivity and density measurements from the LWD tools. Thorough planning was crucial to succeed: Structural mapping based on 13 old exploration and production wells, identifying lithological and micropaleontological markers in the overburden as well as in the reservoir (having been proved being less than 1.5 m TVD depth error during drilling) and executing extensive core analysis. The horizontals are equipped with cemented 7" liners. They were perforated on coiled tubing in two steps after the well completions. In a first campaign the rear part of the v-shaped horizontal sections were perforated only. The subsequent gas injection meant pressuring up the layered horizons. This resulted in considerable underbalance conditions during the perforation of the remaining upper intervals in a second campaign. Placement, orientation and shot density of the perforations depended on petrophysical interpretation of the LWD data and a pipe conveyed full wave sonic log in each well, taking into account the results of the rock mechanical analyses on the core samples.

    horizon A horizon B horizon C

    horizon D

    perforations 1st campaign

    perforations 2nd campaign

    Fig. 2 v-shaped horizontal section of a typical gas storage well in horizon C The production casings were cemented with foam cement to effectively seal the storage horizons (horizon B already in operation!) from each other, respectively the largely depleted horizon A in top of the reservoir which serves for pressure observation. Foam cementing requires extensive engineering, especially depending on and affected by the well path, the borehole geometry and the rheology of the well fluids. But cement evaluation logs and analyses proved that foam cementing is very effective in establishing a hydraulic seal on a short distance between (gas) horizons regardless of their pressures.

    Although the gas storage site is very limited in area, during the second development stage all drilling operations and the enlargement of the surface facilities had to be executed in an effort to minimize interference with the regular gas storage operations. Therefore special attention had to be devoted also to a number of organizational issues, such as defining responsibilities, coordinating logistics and drilling activities, construction works and storage operations, etc..

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