Sand management/control
To avoid costly interventions like sidetracking or wellbore abandonment, a check-valve system was installed near the sandface within three injector wells which prevented the mobilization of fines from the reservoir into the wellbore by stopping backflow.
This paper outlines issues to be resolved during facility design and provides guidelines, calculations, and examples for sand-handling steps to be implemented after separation.
With the higher adaptation of flow-control devices in recent years to improve flow segmentation and reduce the premature failure of sand control because of highly localized flow, flow-control-device implementation is becoming an integral part of sand-management strategy.
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This paper describes sand-control design and execution techniques applied to four high-rate gas wells in a deepwater environment.
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This paper discusses novel acoustic techniques used to identify productive zones and areas of sand production in a well with a sanding event.
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This paper highlights solids-management technologies that are currently available and still in use topside (some of which are potentially outdated).
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SponsoredCase study on how a Marcellus operator was able to recover 99%+ of frac sand in high flowrate wells using advanced cyclone technology.
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This paper presents lessons learned and best practices from several chemical sand-consolidation and sand-agglomeration treatments performed in mature fields in Malaysia.
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This paper presents the lessons learned from optimizing sand control and management strategies of an offshore sandstone oil field offshore Nigeria after multiple sanding events and well failures.
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The paper describes an integrated work flow to apply autonomous inflow-control devices successfully in an offshore heavy-oil reservoir with significant uncertainty in remaining oil thickness and water/oil contacts.
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A major issue facing many production engineers is sand management. There are many obstacles equipment hasn’t historically been able to overcome and prolonged use is costly.
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A well-flux surveillance method to monitor and ramp up production for openhole standalone screen completions is described that optimizes production by considering risks of production impairment and screen-erosion failure.
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Skipping one traditional step in the supply chain might save oil and gas companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year while making a meaningful dent in emissions.