INTRODUCTION
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
- Recognizing formation damage problem during any stage of well development and reservoir exploitation.
- Evaluating drilling and completion practices to establish procedures for selection of non-damaging systems.
- Developing procedures to assess and integrate laboratory and field techniques to recognize and treat formation damage.
- Quantify the annual revenue loss associated with formation damage
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Petroleum Engineers
- Reservoir Engineers
- Production Engineers
- Drilling Engineers
- Reservoir Geologists
- Petrophysists
PROGRAM OUTLINE
- Review of basic rock properties affected by formation damage
- The reservoir system
- Wellbore activity system
- Classification of rocks
- Composition of carbonate deposit
- Review of basic mineralogy
- Review of basic rock properties affected by formation damage
- The reservoir system
- Wellbore activity system
- Classification of rocks
- Composition of carbonate deposit
- Review of basic mineralogy
- Introduction to Formation Damage
- Basic definitions
- Potential formation damage problems during various well operation
- Drilling
- Casing and cementing
- Completion
- Well intervention
- Well stimulation
- Production
- Secondary recovery operations- water injection
- Enhanced oil recovery
- Introduction to Formation Damage
- Basic definitions
- Potential formation damage problems during various well operation
- Drilling
- Casing and cementing
- Completion
- Well intervention
- Well stimulation
- Production
- Secondary recovery operations- water injection
- Enhanced oil recovery
- Scale and precipitate damage
- Scale deposition, removal and prevention
- Tendency of brines to deposit scales
- Prediction and identification of scales
- Paraffins
- Formation of paraffin deposits
- Paraffin removal
- Asphaltenes
- Oil sludge prevention
- Methods of acid sludge removal
- Scale and precipitate damage
- Scale deposition, removal and prevention
- Tendency of brines to deposit scales
- Prediction and identification of scales
- Paraffins
- Formation of paraffin deposits
- Paraffin removal
- Asphaltenes
- Oil sludge prevention
- Methods of acid sludge removal
- Sulfate reducing bacteria
- Slime forming bacteria
- Iron bacteria
- Prevention of bacteria
- Perforation theory & damage
- Perforation shot density
- Compacted zone
- Perforation plugging
- Role of under-balance in improved perforation flow
- Development of flow-diagrams and process maps
- Sulfate reducing bacteria
- Slime forming bacteria
- Iron bacteria
- Prevention of bacteria
- Perforation theory & damage
- Perforation shot density
- Compacted zone
- Perforation plugging
- Role of under-balance in improved perforation flow
- Development of flow-diagrams and process maps
- Drill stem tests
- Resistivity log
- Production history review
- Comparison of production performance of offset wells (Class problem)
- Pressure transient well test analysis
- Nodal system analysis
- Production logging
- Laboratory core analysis method
- Tests to perform on formation damage
- Filtration
- Removal of formation damage
- Evaluation of formation damage caused by completion and workover fluids
- Drill stem tests
- Resistivity log
- Production history review
- Comparison of production performance of offset wells (Class problem)
- Pressure transient well test analysis
- Nodal system analysis
- Production logging
- Laboratory core analysis method
- Tests to perform on formation damage
- Filtration
- Removal of formation damage
- Evaluation of formation damage caused by completion and workover fluids