Completion:

Refers to the installation of permanent equipment for the production of oil or gas.

2.

The hardware used to optimize the production of hydrocarbons from the well.

This may range from nothing but a packer on tubing above an openhole completion (“barefoot” completion), to a system of mechanical filtering elements outside of perforated pipe, to a fully automated measurement and control system that optimizes reservoir economics without human intervention (an “intelligent” completion).

Terms Related to Completion

• Open-hole completion

  A method of preparing a well for production in which no production casing or liner is set opposite the producing formation. Reservoir fluids flow unrestricted ...

• Coiled tubing completion

  A completion where ct and associated ct-mounted hardware is used as the primary completion flow path.

• Miniaturized completion

  A well completion in which the production casing is less than 4.5 inches in diameter. Compare conventional completion.

• Tubingless completion

  A method of producing a well in which only production casing is set through the pay zone, with no tubing or inner production string used ...

• Barefoot completion

  See open-hole completion

• Dual completion

  A single well that produces from two separate formation at the same time. Production from each zone is segregated by running two tubing strings with ...

• Side-by-side completion

  A single bore-hole completion where there are distinct surface-to-zone tubing strings with isolation from each other.