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Title: Drilling A Relief Well In A Gas Storage Field
Author: J. B. Lane
Source: American Gas Association 1992
Year Published: 1992
Abstract: Presented below is a case history on a relief well drilled by Southern California Gas Company in 1991. The history will focus on the planning and directional drilling of the relief well. An existing gas storage well at the Honor Rancho Storage Field, located approximately 60 miles north of Los Angeles, developed a casing shoe leak at around 10,000. During repair attempts, the well was inadvertably sidetracked at 7,500 due to a severe dogleg. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to reenter the old 5 1/2 casing below this point. A relief well plan was then developed and executed where the 5 1/2 casing was pulled from the existing well to a depth of 2953. A cement plug was set and a new relief well was kicked off at this point. Utilizing a magnetic ranging tool, the relief well was directionally drilled to 9,912 where the old 5 1/2 casing was intersected. The 5 1/2 casing was then milled for 30 and the wellbore was abandoned. The well was then plugged back to 9023, redrilled 40 north of the previous bottom-hole location and recompleted.

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