Overview
Operators often lack precise, real-time data on which zones are contributing to production, in what proportions, and whether water or gas breakthrough is occurring.
Without this understanding, production optimisation decisions — zone shut-off, stimulation, recompletion — are based on uncertain models rather than measured well performance.
Why It Happens
Production wells frequently have multiple perforated intervals contributing different fluid types and flow rates. Reservoir performance changes over time as pressures deplete and water contacts move. Without production logging, operators cannot distinguish between zones or identify where problems like water influx originate, making targeted intervention difficult and risky.
How It Can Be Fixed
Run production logging using Paradigm’s Slick-E-Line® or Slick-O-Line® systems to acquire real-time data on zone contributions, fluid holdup, and flow profiles. The data confirms or updates reservoir models, identifies water-producing zones for remedial shut-off, and validates the effectiveness of previous interventions.
Why Paradigm
Paradigm’s Slick-E-Line® delivers real-time production logging data on a slickline platform — providing the speed and cost efficiency of slickline with the data quality of electric line. The Slick-O-Line® fibre-enabled system adds distributed temperature and acoustic sensing for full-wellbore production profile monitoring. Paradigm’s integrated well intervention offering means production logging findings can be directly acted upon with their plug setting, dump bailing, or explosive perforation services.
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