Completions
Casing deformation has emerged as a major challenge in China’s unconventional oil and gas fields, prompting the development of new solutions to address the issue.
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Intelligent completions could improve many of the world’s oil and gas wells, but not all are suited to the technology. There is another option.
The US supermajor is using one of its lowest-value hydrocarbon products to generate double-digit production increases in its most prolific US asset.
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This work describes the positive results experienced when a self-diverting acid system based on a viscoelastic-surfactant (VES) technology was introduced for carbonate-reservoir stimulation offshore Brazil. -
This paper describes a matrix-acidizing campaign executed successfully in the Gulf of Cambay on the west coast of India.
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Matrix stimulation encompasses pumping processes used to improve the connection between the wellbore and the reservoir. They are effective in a wide range of lithologies and have been successful in most types of completions: cased and openhole, horizontal and vertical, simple and complex, injectors
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While increasing coiled-tubing (CT) diameter remains a theoretical option to improve reach, doing so creates logistical challenges.
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This paper presents an alternative approach to designing and executing matrix-stimulation treatments in multilayered carbonate reservoirs.
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Hydraulic fracturing solutions use a gelling agent known as guar gum to transport proppant. Flowback water can have guar gum concentrations has high as 1% by volume creating treatment challenges prior to reuse or disposal.
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This paper discusses the keys to the successful delivery and well productivity of the first seven of 40 planned wells of the BP's PSVM development.
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For those in shale exploration, “fracability” is a real word, a critical property, and a point of contention.
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With inconsistent inlet water quality being the rule rather than the exception, sizing and operational considerations of the treatment system components must vary accordingly to make the most economic sense.
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While shale unproved technically recoverable resources have been identified around the world, development has been limited to North America.
