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Summary. New features of polymer rheology in porous media were observed when hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) solutions were flowed through sandstone, gravel packs, and glass-bead packs at high rates. Independent measurement of elongational viscosity, , with a ductless-siphon technique demonstrates ...
Summary The redesign solution for the batch-drilled wells remaining after the deformation of the Marlin Well A-2 production tieback and tubing was vacuum-insulated tubing (VIT). VIT implementation, however, required a number of computational and experimental innovations. To ensure well survival, a ...
Summary Design and development of superior drilling and drill-in fluids, and the assessment of the effectiveness of mudcake cleaning from the borehole wall by cleaning systems, require a good understanding of the fundamental phenomena associated with the erosional behavior of mudcakes formed by different ...
Abstract The oil-bearing Belly River pools of the Pembina area of Alberta were discovered in the search for Cardium oil and developed under skepticism by many operator. The indicated high connate water saturation, the presence of swelling clays within the formation and the lack of readily available ...
Summary Barium sulfate scale deposition in the near wellbore, perforations, or production tubing has severely affected well productivity in many North Sea Fields. This is due to the co-mingling of the sulfate-rich seawater used for reservoir sweep with formation water containing high concentrations ...
Summary The thermal and mechanical loading of oceanic hydrate-bearing sediments (HBS) can result in hydrate dissociation and a significant pressure increase with potentially adverse consequences on the integrity and stability of the wellbore assembly, the HBS, and the bounding formations. The perception ...
Summary. The BORE system is a drilling reporting and evaluation data system specially designed for drilling engineering. It reports drilling information from the rig site to the drilling department office and to license partners and authorities. The system provides valuable well information on previous ...
Summary. A computer program based on the continuity and momentum equations for prediction of the flow of gas through low-permeability porous media was developed. This program uses the FORSIM code, which porous media was developed. This program uses the FORSIM code, which is based on the method of lines ...
Summary Daqing oil field is one of the earliest to develop displacement technology by polyacrylamide (HPAM). One tonne of polymer can increase 100 to 120 tonnes of oil; the recovery increases from 40% (OOIP) to 50% (OOIP). In view of the geological and physicochemical characteristics, a series of technologies ...
Abstract In a time of declining production and increasing demand, geoscientists are challenged more and more often to develop new techniques and strategies for evaluation and appraisal of increasingly complex and deeper reservoirs. This paper describes the subsurface challenges and how, through optimized ...
Summary Two new polyacrylamide processes for water control in producing wellsimprove the efficiency of conventional polyacrylamide treatment withoutinducing any risk of well plugging by crosslinkers. Treatment plugging bycrosslinkers. Treatment of a gas-storage well strongly decreased waterproduction ...
Summary At Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, nonrig tubing repairs have become a viable alternative to rig workovers (RWOs). They provide economic remediation for wells with production tubing by ""A?? annulus communication. Electricline (EL)-set straddles can eliminate tubing communication at a significant cost ...
Summary From 2010 to 2012, two parallel gas pipelines (the Nord Stream Project) were installed in the Baltic Sea between Vyborg in Russia and Greifswald in Germany. The pipeline system will enable an annual transport of 55 billion m3 (bcm) of natural gas from the large Russian gas fields to the European ...
Abstract The paper discusses the design. The field operations of drilling and completing a high productivity horizontal well in the Sirte basin of North Africa. as well as the productive results obtained. In Oct. - Nov. 1994. the Arabian Gulf Company (AGOCO) drilled, tested and put into production ...
Summary Matrix acidizing is used in carbonate formations to create wormholes that connect the formation to the wellbore. Hydrochloric acid (HCl), organic acids, or mixtures of these acids are typically used in matrix-acidizing treatments of carbonate reservoirs. However, the use of these acids in deep ...
Abstract Amoco et al. Steep A7-28-66-7W6M was drilled as a directional well to 2395 m M.D. to intersect Amoco et al. Steep 7-28-66-7W6M which had blown out. The replacement well was to be used to perform a bottomhole-kill operation and then subsequently converted to a producing well. As the precise ...
Abstract A joint study integrating geological and engineering data was undertaken to locate infill wells and to optimize the injection pattern in Hayat-Yasser, Kenz and Salam fields in the western desert of Egypt. The focus of this work was the Cretaceous Bahariya and Abu Roash “G� formations which ...
Abstract The East Bodo, Lloydminster SS heavy oil pool, has been exploited using primary recovery and waterflood. IOR screening showed that a polymer flood would be a preferred IOR technique. Subsequent coreflood tests indicated that the polymer flood could recover 20% OOIP incremental oil, after waterflooding ...
Abstract The East Bodo, Lloydminster SS heavy oil pool has been exploited using primary recovery and waterflood. IOR screening showed that a polymer flood would be a preferred IOR technique. Subsequent coreflood tests indicated that the polymer flood could recover 20% OOIP incremental oil, after waterflooding, ...
Summary This paper shows that the water-alternating-gas (WAG) process may improvesweep efficiency and gas-condensate recovery process may improve sweepefficiency and gas-condensate recovery compared with continuous cycling inhighly stratified reservoirs. The study used extensive numerical simulation ...