DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-ZONE GAS FIELD Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC E21B43/14 E21B37/06 

FIELD: oil-and-gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the oil-and-gas industry and can be used for the development of hard-to-extract gas deposits. The proposed method comprises drilling of the main wellbore, running-in of a production string, surveying, drilling of a horizontal section in a productive formation. Note here that the said main wellbore is drilled with a preset inclination angle, encased by the production string with a precut opening in an aluminium shell for drilling and finishing of a smaller-diameter lateral borehole. The wellbore production sections are drilled gently sloping and equipped with appropriate filters. Simultaneously, a dual production string is run-into the main and lateral horizons to be isolated by a packer above the roof of the lower productive horizon to develop separately the horizons by separate production strings. In the well operation, methanol is fed automatically at a preset flow rate in the main wellbore annulus and lateral borehole annulus.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of development.

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