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Sand Control PDF
Sand Control PDF
Giuseppe Ripa
Usually associated with younger Tertiary formations such as the Miocene or Pliocene Age Sands
Approximately 70% of the world’s oil and gas reserves are contained in poorly consolidated reservoirs where solids
production is likely to become a problem during the life of the field.
[JPT October 1998, Page 80 ]
120 1800
20 300
0 0
1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004
Year
• Production Loss
• Casing / Liner Collapse
Water-Wet
Grains
Oil Flow
Oil and
Water Flow
• Water Production
•Overburden
•Cementing
•Capillary
•Drag
• Primer:
– Rock shear collapse owing to
in situ stress forming “shear
band”
• Sand Production:
– Erosion of perforation tunnel
around “shear band” by the
produced fluids
Sand Probe
220
PERFS CLEAN-UP FINES REMOVAL CONTINUOUS
D50=40- 60 µ m SAND
D50=3 - 7 µm INFLUX
200
D50=18 µm
180
2/16"
S
100
=0
80
80
• Rate Exclusion
– Drawdown Control
– Selective Perforations
• Chemical Methods
– Consolidation of the formation
– Resin-Coated Sand
Slotted Liner Wire Wrap Dual Screen Slim-Pak Wire Mesh Screen
(3-6%) Screen (6-12%) Prepack (3-6%) Screen (3-6%) (15-30%)
Expandable Screen
(15-30%)
Gravel Formation
Consists of sized particles Pack Sand Sand
SLOT SIZING
Gravel Pack vs. FracPack
Slotted Liners, Screen only (wire wrapped, prepacked, etc.)
TYPE OF WELL
Producer, Injector
Deviation & Size
Off-shore, On-shore, sub-see
90
P o o rly S o rte d S a n d
80
Cumulative Weight (%)
W e ll S o rte d S a n d
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
0 .1 0 0 0 0 .0 1 0 0 0 .0 0 1 0 0 .0 0 0 1
G r a in D ia m e te r (in c h e s )
pack sand
Initial Permeabilit (kf / ki)
0 .8
0 .4
formation sand invasion of gravel
0 .2 pack sand
0 .0 • D50/d50 > 13, no sand control,
formation sand passes through
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
R a tio o f M e d ia n G ra v e l P a c k S a n d D ia m e te r to
Screen Diameter
– Fishing (7” csg: IDmax= 4” screen; 9 5/8” csg: IDmax= 6” screen ...)
– ID for logging and or selective equipment
O-RING SUB
TELLTALE SCREEN
SUMP PACKER
Closing Sleeve
Crossover Ports
Lower Seal Bore
Check Valve
Indicating Collar
Indicating Collet
Perforations Screen
PBR
Service Tool
Pick up to the
reverse-out position
Collet Indicates
at Upper Packer
Seal Bore Shoulder
Check Valve
Allows Only
Upward Flow
- Continue pumping
Check Valve Closed
- Check valve prevents
slurry from entering the
inside of the washpipe.
Drilling Mud
irreducible minimum
Injection fluid
Time (hrs)
• The irreducible minimum of solids is taken as the cleanliness
value such that the level of cleanliness can only be increased
marginally over lengthy circulating times
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Fluid Filtration
• Methods of determination
– From Kozeny: Dpore = √k
– From Coberly: Dpore = D50/6.5
– SEM measurements of pore throat diameters from closely spaced core samples
Result:
Limited leakoff and
poor injectivity
¾Underbalanced perforating
• Underbalanced Pressure
– selected on formation permeability and
Oil Wells
Gas Wells
• Backflow
– When perforating is performed overbalanced a
period of backflow is sometimes used to clean
up the perforations with a dedicated string
• Entry holes less than 0.6 inches result in high pressure drops.
• Benefits associated with maximized inflow area leads to need for high shot density.
• Perforations must be fully packed to prevent excessive pressure drop, and screen
plugging and/or erosion.
Linear Radial
2 20 Flow Flow
Effective spf
1.2 12
0.8 8
0.4 4
0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Cement
Casing
SKIN Gravel Pack Sand
Screen
Pack Permeability Flow Rate 3/8” Diameter 1/2” Diameter 3/4” Diameter
Material (mD) (bpd/perf) Perforation Perforation Perforation
Cement
Ideal Wellbore
• Cased-Hole Gravel Packs still
exhibit high skins
Damaged Zone
• Improved Cased-Hole Gravel
Packing methods have helped
but have not solved problem
Actual Wellbore
• Implication is that
perforations may not be
completely filled with gravel Pumping Pressure < Fracture Pressure
damaged zone
Without Leakoff
Clay
Filter
Pov
Fluid Loss Cake
Sand
• Due to its large flow area the OHGP has a better inflow performance than ICGP
• The difference between the OHGP and the ICGP deliverability can be negligible
at low rates but it becomes more marked at high rates
• Pressure losses due to incomplete filling of perfs are negligible for high
permeability formations whereas they are extremely high in low permeability
formations
• Washpipe size
– Must keep area outside the screen larger than area inside the screen;
especially in deviated wells where is much easier to create sand bridge
• Return Flow Rate
– Sufficient to keep an annular velocity of at least 1 ft/sec at end of screen
(turbulence helps to suspend sand particles, annular velocity must kept less
than 2.77 ft/sec to minimize turbulent effects)
• Low-viscosity carrier fluids result in high-quality gravel
pack in nearly all situations
• For cased-hole completions, high fluid loss rates and
prepacking both have positive effect
Kd Kf
P Break
Down
• Preliminary Test:
– Injection Test (with carrier fluid)
• leak off coefficient (from fall-off)
2000 10
1800 9
1600 8
1400 7
Pressione (psi)
1200 6
1000 5
800 4
600 3
400 2
200 1
0 0
14.52.48 15.07.12 15.21.36 15.36.00 15.50.24 16.04.48 16.19.12 16.33.36
Time (hh:mm:ss)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
07:21:41
07:23:09
07:24:37
07:26:05
07:27:33
07:29:01
07:30:29
07:31:57
07:33:25
07:34:53
07:36:21
07:37:49
07:39:17
07:40:45
07:42:13
07:43:41
07:45:09
07:46:37
07:48:05
Tbg pressure
07:49:33
07:51:01
07:52:29
07:53:57
07:55:25
07:56:53
Frac Pack
07:58:21
08:02:45
Rate 08:04:13
08:05:41
08:07:09
08:08:37
Mix ratio
08:10:05
08:11:33
08:13:01
08:14:29
08:15:57
08:17:25
08:18:53
08:20:21
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08:21:49
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08:24:45
08:26:13
08:27:41
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0
2
4
6
8
10
12
0
FRAC-PACK ICGP OHGP
0.8 OHGP
CF=85-100%
0.6
ICGP
0.4
CF=30-50%
0.2
0.0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100
S.
V.
S. S.
V. V.
CSG size 7” CSG size 9"5/8
NO SAND CONTROL
ICGP
SHORT SELECTIVE STRING
F
V.C
ICGP ICGP
SHORT STRING
ICGP ICGP
LONG SELECTIVE STRING
CASING CASING
SHOE OHGP OHGP SHOE
LONG STRING
YES MULTI-ZONE
COMPLETION
NO NO
LOWEST ZONE
COMPLETION
YES YES
D50 FORMATION
SIZE < 55 µm
NO
YES
MULTY-
LAYERED
NO YES
ACTIVE
NO SHALES
SHALES CAN BE NO
ISOLATED OR STABILIZED
YES
NO
PAY-ZONE > 25
ft vert
YES
NO
MAXIMISE NO NO
ZONAL ISOLATION
COMPLETION ID REQUIRED
YES YES
NO OPERATING WINDOW
BETWEEN PORE PRESSURE
AND Pfrac > 600 psi
Available:
NO
•No damaging DIF
•Effective matrix stimulation (back-up)
YES
REMEDIAL JOB
>50’
20/40 12.6
For sand production, upward annular
40/60 4.0
velocity must overcome sand settling
velocity. Maximum upward velocity
never exceeds 5% of this value in this 7 5/8”
case. Csg.
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Definition of Sand Consolidation
• Short Interval
• Lack of previous sand production
• Upper zone of multiple completion
• Limited sand production tendency
• High reservoir pressure
• Good sand quality with vertical permeability
Hardened Resin-Coated
Proppant
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