IMPROVEMENT OF SAND CONTROL TECHNIQUES. Effective ...€¦ · Reservoir fluid characteristics...
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❖ Effective Selection of Sand Control Techniques For New WellsIMPROVEMENT OF SAND CONTROL TECHNIQUES.
❖ Possible Controls To Wells Already Producing Sand In Order To Reduce Sand Production To Lowest Acceptable Level
OWI, WEST AFRICA7TH - 8TH MARCH 2018
KELECHI VICTORDRILLING & COMPLETION ENGINEERNIGERIAN AGIP EXPLORATION LTD
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1. Objectives
2. Fundamental Causes of Sand Production
3. Reasons For Sand Control
4. SandFace Sand Control/Lower Completion Methods
5. Sand Control Technique Selection Process
6. Possible Controls For Wells Already Producing Sand
OUTLINE
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OBJECTIVES
▪ Uncover effective selection of sand control techniques for new wells
▪ Understand possible controls to wells already producing sand in order to reducesand production to lowest acceptable level
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FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF SAND PRODUCTION
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❖Destabilizing forces overcome formation strength
▪ Formation matrix fails
▪ If sand is mobile - sand transport (production) will occur
▪Sand production is a function of rock strength and/or fluid flow effects
Stage 1 - Failure Stage 2 - Transportation
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FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF SAND PRODUCTION – Factor for Sand Production
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Formation or reservoir factors:
❖Rock mechanics
▪Overburden, intergranular friction, differential stresses
❖Formation lithology
▪Cementing material and degree of consolidation
▪Particle size, shape and distribution
❖Reservoir fluid characteristics
▪Viscosity, velocity and resultant drag forces (friction)
▪Changes in surface wetting
•Drag Forces
•Cementing•Capillary•Overburden
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FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF SAND PRODUCTION – Production Factors
❖Increased water cut – water coning or injection break-through
▪ reduces stability of perforation arch
▪ higher drag forces
Water break through can effect the performance of the formation cementing material
or change the flow characteristics which
destabilises the formationsand
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FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF SAND PRODUCTION – Production Factors
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Pressure depletion, rock failure and reservoir compaction
Formation stable against overburden
Destabilized formation compacted by overburden
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FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF SAND PRODUCTION
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❖Once the destabilizing forces overcome the formation strength, the rock will fail.
❖Sand production will follow if sand can be transported.
Fines migrate through matrix
Sand is the load bearing solids.
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REASONS FOR SAND CONTROL
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❖Produced sand disposal
❖Formation stability
❖Equipment erosion
❖Impaired fluid flow and wellbore access
❖Realizing full well productivity
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REASONS FOR SAND CONTROL – Sand Disposal
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❖Cumulative sand production
▪ plugs equipment or reduces efficiency
❖Production shut-down
▪ routine separator cleaning required
▪ high-cost activity
❖Sand clean-up required
▪ oil removed before disposal
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REASONS FOR SAND CONTROL – Formation Stability
❖Failure may occur due to :
▪Non uniform lateral loading as rock is produced.
▪High axial compressive load due to slumping of the overlying casing-bearing formation.
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REASONS FOR SAND CONTROL – Equipment Erosion
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❖Sand production can cause erosion in both surface and downhole
equipment such as :
Downhole Surface
Blast Joints Chokes
Gas lift Equipment Elbows / Tees
Pumps Metering Devices
Safety Valves Flow line
Circulating sleeves Flanges
Nipples Wellhead
Tubular Valves
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REASONS FOR SAND CONTROL – Impaired Fluid Flow and Wellbore Access
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❖Sand loading or bridging
▪ Impaired productivity
▪Restriction to wellbore access
❖Implications
▪Well intervention required
▪ bailing or washing
❖Sand management required
▪ severity/frequency
▪ economics
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SANDFACE SAND CONTROL/LOWER COMPLETION METHODS
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❖ Restrict production rate
❖ Perforating strategy
❖ In-situ sand consolidation
❖ Resin coated gravel placement
❖ Stand alone screens
❖ Expandable screen systems
❖ Gravel pack (cased or open hole)
❖ FRACPAC
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SANDFACE SAND CONTROL – Restrictive Production Rate
❖If production must be constrained to avoid sanding, the
completion is generally considered a failure.
❖Restricting production rate may be appropriate:
Some weak formations have enough strength to produce
sand-free at low rates.
On sensitive formations where rock properties may change
during the production (i.e..., water production).
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SANDFACE SAND CONTROL – Perforating Strategy
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❖General objectives include
▪Maximizing the stability of individual perforations
▪Avoiding collapse of structure between perforations
▪Optimum shot density and phasing
▪Oriented perforating guns
▪Deep penetrating charges
▪ Perforate interval with the strongest formation
✓selected from logs
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SANDFACE SAND CONTROL – In Situ Consolidation
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❖Resin material is pumped into the formation
❖Furan Resin “glues” formation grain-grain into a consolidated structure
❖Compressive strength >1,000 psi with 60-75% retained permeability.
❖Injection of consolidation resins into the formation.
▪ sand grains bound with pore spaces left open
▪ rock matrix compressive strength improved
▪ efficient diversion critical
▪ detailed in “ScreenlessTechniques”
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SANDFACE SAND CONTROL – Resin Coated Gravel
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❖Proppant ( Gravel ) is precoatedwith resin material.
❖Particles are mixed with viscous gel and pumped into the formation.
❖Particles are contacted grain-to-grain.
❖Temperature + H2O fuses the particles together into a consolidated permeable, drillable network.Main Water Shutoff system: e.gSandlock V
Resin
Formation
(Unconsolidated)
Gravel
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LOWER COMPLETION METHODS – Stand Alone Screens (SAS) or Natural Sand Pack
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❖ Installation of a screen system
without gravel
▪ cased or open hole applications▪ premium screens are preferred
❖ Applicable mainly for sandstone
formations with:
▪ Good uniformity coefficient, i.e., well sorted sand grains
▪ Low percentage of fines
❖ Risks:
▪ Plugging of screens▪ Erosion due to production hot-spot
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LOWER COMPLETION METHODS – Stand Alone Screens (SAS) or Natural Sand Pack
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Screens Expandable Screens
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LOWER COMPLETION METHODS – Typical Gravel Pack Completion (IGP)
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❖ Consists of sized
particles placed in the
annular space between
an unconsolidated
formation and a
centralized screen.
❖ Open ( EGP) or cased
hole ( IGP).
Packer
Tubing
Blank Pipe
Sump Packer
Proppant
(gravel)
Casing
Seal Assembly
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LOWER COMPLETION METHODS – Horizontal Open Hole Gravel Packing
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Two main placement techniques:
❖Water packing
▪ brine carrier, high rate, low concentration
▪ sustained circulation required during job
❖Alternate path
▪ viscous carrier, low rate, high concentration
▪ sustained circulation not required
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LOWER COMPLETION METHODS – Frac-n-PACK
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❖ In FRACPAC, we place a fracture and a gravel pack in one step using a bottom hole assembly, that includes:
❖ The QUANTUM* Tool System with accessories, blank pipe and screens.
❖ High conductivity path for produced fluid which minimizes drags associated with draw-down pressure
❖ By-pass formation damage
❖ Restore formation stress
❖ Reduce matrix flow velocity
❖ Connect reservoir layers
❖ Stimulate the well
StimPAC
Gravel Pack
Damage radius
Fracture
Formation
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SAND CONTROL TECHNIQUE SELECTION PROCESS
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❖ Selection for a new well is based on information from field, Exploration and laboratory activities as shown below
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SAND CONTROL TECHNIQUE SELECTION PROCESS
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SAND CONTROL TECHNIQUE SELECTION PROCESS
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POSSIBLE CONTROLS FOR WELLS ALREADY PRODUCING SAND
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❖ Flow chart for already existing well that is producing sand
▪Dedicated well testing and data acquisition required
▪Laboratory testing of produced sand must be done to confirm the type of sand produced
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POSSIBLE CONTROLS FOR WELLS ALREADY PRODUCING SAND
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THANKS
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