Simulation of Gel Filter Cake Formation, Gel Cleanup, and Post-Frac Well Performance in Hydraulically Fractured Gas Wells

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarinya Charoenwongsa ◽  
Hossein Kazemi ◽  
Perapon Fakcharoenphol ◽  
Jennifer Lynne Miskimins
Keyword(s):  
Filter Cake ◽  
Well Performance ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Cake Formation

Simulation of Gel Filter-Cake Formation, Gel Cleanup, and Post-Fracture Well Performance in Hydraulically Fractured Gas Wells

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (03) ◽  
pp. 235-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarinya Charoenwongsa ◽  
Hossein Kazemi ◽  
Perapon Fakcharoenphol ◽  
Jennifer Miskimins
Keyword(s):  
Filter Cake ◽  
Well Performance ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Cake Formation

Granular-bed filtration assisted by filter-cake formation

2005 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.-C. Lee ◽  
R. Pfeffer ◽  
A.M. Squires
Keyword(s):  
Filter Cake ◽  
Granular Bed ◽  
Cake Formation

scholarly journals Study on the Influence of Mud Properties on the Stability of Excavated Face of Slurry Shield and the Quality of Filter Cake Formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Hu Wang ◽  
Jian Chen ◽  
Hongjun Liu ◽  
Lei Guo ◽  
Yao Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Filter Cake ◽  
Volume Ratio ◽  
Vertical Displacement ◽  
Support Pressure ◽  
Longitudinal Displacement ◽  
Growth Trend ◽  
Cake Formation ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
The Stability

In the construction of subsea tunnels, the stability and control of the excavation surface are the main concerns of the engineering community. In this paper, the Xiamen Metro Line 2 is used as the study case. The filter cake formation of mud shields is experimentally studied, and the excavation surface is numerically simulated. It is found that the formation of filter cake does not require a large pressure difference, and can be formed under 0.06 MPa. With the increase of pressure, the quality of filter cake is further improved, and a small amount of seawater (volume ratio less than 3%) also has a significant effect on the viscosity of mud. Under different cross-section geological conditions, with the decrease of the support pressure of the excavation face, the vertical displacement and vertical (Y-direction) displacement of the excavation face dome gradually increase, the maximum longitudinal displacement is 9.7 mm, the maximum longitudinal displacement can reach 23.9 mm, and the growth trend is nonlinear. According to different stratum conditions, during the excavation of the tunnel, the plastic area of the excavation face is different.

Well Clean-Up Using a Combined Thermochemical/Chelating Agent Fluids

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Filter Cake ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Chelating Agent ◽  
Drilling Fluids ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Oil And Gas Wells ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cake Removal

The well clean-up process involves the removal of impermeable filter cake from the formation face. This process is essential to allow the formation fluids to flow from the reservoir to the wellbore. Different types of drilling fluids such as oil- and water-based drilling fluids are used to drill oil and gas wells. These drilling fluids are weighted with different weighting materials such as bentonite, calcium carbonate, and barite. The filter cake that forms on the formation face consists mainly of the drilling fluid weighting materials (around 90%), and the rest is other additives such as polymers or oil in the case of oil-base drilling fluids. The process of filter cake removal is very complicated because it involves more than one stage due to the compatibility issues of the fluids used to remove the filter cake. Different formulations were used to remove different types of filter cake, but the problem with these methods is the removal efficiency or the compatibility. In this paper, a new method was developed to remove different types of filter cakes and to clean-up oil and gas wells after drilling operations. Thermochemical fluids that consist of two inert salts when mixed together will generate very high pressure and high temperature in addition to hot water and hot nitrogen. These fluids are sodium nitrate and ammonium chloride. The filter cake was formed using barite and calcite water- and oil-based drilling fluids at high pressure and high temperature. The removal process started by injecting 500 ml of the two salts and left for different time periods from 6 to 24 h. The results of this study showed that the newly developed method of thermochemical removed the filter cake after 6 h with a removal efficiency of 89 wt% for the barite filter cake in the water-based drilling fluid. The mechanisms of removal using the combined solution of thermochemical fluid and ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) chelating agent were explained by the generation of a strong pressure pulse that disturbed the filter cake and the generation of the high temperature that enhanced the barite dissolution and polymer degradation. This solution for filter cake removal works for reservoir temperatures greater than 100 °C.

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