Nowadays, the economic scenario poses new challenges for cost reduction, safety improvements, and production optimization, especially in deepwater projects and in the context of energy transition. Well design needs to achieve a higher level of operational efficiency and safety by reducing complexity, increasing flexibility, and improving availability.
In Brazilian Pre-Salt projects, Intelligent Well Completions (IWC) have been used since the early conceptual phases to properly manage reservoirs and production, aiming to exploit the full potential of these thick reservoirs. Currently, Pre-Salt fields already have over 200 IWC systems, making it one of the areas with the most intensive use of IWC systems in deepwater. Well designs and intelligent well technologies, including electric systems, are now a reality. However, are we fully utilizing the potential of this technology?
