Utilization of Sand Control and Mechanical Profile Control in Numbi Field Water Injection Wells

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.J. Needham ◽  
S.J. Gross ◽  
W.C. Pape ◽  
B.A. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Water Injection ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Sand Control ◽  
Profile Control

Designing Effective Sand Control Systems to Overcome Problems in Water Injection Wells (SPE93564)

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Sadrpanah ◽  
R. Allam ◽  
A. Acock ◽  
M. Norris ◽  
T. O’Rourke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Sand Control

scholarly journals Preparation and Evaluation of a Profile Control Agent Base on Waste Drilling Fluid

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoping Qin ◽  
Haiwei Lu ◽  
Yilin Li ◽  
Tong Peng ◽  
Lijie Xing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Salt Resistance ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Mild Conditions ◽  
Performance Indexes ◽  
Profile Control ◽  
Preparation And Evaluation

The waste drilling fluid was treated by a flocculant and a pH regulator. And a novel profile control agent base on waste drilling fluid (PCAWDF) was prepared using polymer, formaldehyde, resorcinol, and thiourea as raw materials under mild conditions. PCAWDF was characterized by infrared (IR) spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Compared with the profile control agent prepared by the recirculated water (PCARW), PCAWDF exhibited comparable or better stability, salt resistance, and viscoelasticity. The results of parallel core plugging experiments showed that the profile improvement capability of PCAWDF was stronger than that of PCARW (for 3000 mg/L: 84.6% versus 83.1%; for 5000 mg/L: 91.8% versus 90.2%). The main performance indexes of PCAWDF could meet the need of profile control for the water injection wells. The method could solve the problem of waste drilling fluid treatment in an economic and environmental way.

A Model for Water Injection Into Frac-Packed Wells

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 449-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Suri ◽  
Mukul M. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Water Injection ◽  
Horizontal Stress ◽  
Injection Rate ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Solids Concentration ◽  
Sand Control ◽  
Injection Water ◽  
Large Injection ◽  
Minimum Horizontal Stress ◽  
Injection Rates

Summary Frac packs are increasingly being used for sand control in injection wells in poorly consolidated reservoirs. This completion allows for large injection rates and longer injector life. Many of the large offshore developments in the Gulf of Mexico and around the world rely on these completions for waterflooding and pressure maintenance. The performance of these injectors is crucial to the economics of the project because well intervention later in the life of the field is expensive and undesirable. For the first time, we present a model for water injection in frac-packed wells. The frac pack and the formation are plugged because of the deposition of particles from the injected water, and their effective permeability to water is continuously reduced. However, as the bottomhole pressure (BHP) reaches the frac-pack widening pressure, the frac-pack width increases and a channel that accommodates additional injected particles is created. Injectivity depends on the interstitial velocity of the injected water in the frac pack, volume concentration of the solids in the injected water, injection rate, injection-water temperature, size of proppants in the frac pack, width and length of the frac pack, and the initial minimum horizontal stress. In case of frac packs with large proppant size and high injection rates, the plugging of the frac pack is found to be negligible except in the building of a filter cake at the frac-pack walls. In the case of narrow frac packs with small proppant, significant plugging is expected, which leads to sharp permeability decline of the frac pack and a rapid rise in the BHP. The long-term injectivity of a frac-packed injector depends primarily on the filtration coefficient value of the frac pack, solids concentration in the injected water, and the injection rate. Frac packs are expected to maintain higher injectivities compared to any other completions such as openhole, cased-hole, perforated, or gravel packs.

Designing Effective Sand Control Systems to Overcome Problems in Water Injection Wells

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hooman Sadrpanah ◽  
Robert David Allam ◽  
Andrew Mervyn Acock ◽  
Mark Robert Norris ◽  
Tom O'Rourke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Sand Control

Research on Degradation of Flocculating Stemming Contained Polymer and Clay Used for Profile Control

2014 ◽  
Vol 912-914 ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Shuang Yan Zhang ◽  
Deng Feng Ju ◽  
Hai Jun Yan ◽  
Guo Qing Fu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Yellow River ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Injection Pressure ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Oil Wells ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Fracture Pressure ◽  
Profile Control

Since Menggulin reservoir fully been developed in1990, profile control technique is widely used for improving water swept volume. After multiple rounds and large-scales of polymer flooding by materials mixed with sol-gel and Yellow River clay, the formation damage such as depth blockage and stemming become more and more serious.According to statistics, in 2012 there are respectively 10 and 11 water injection wells happened with back flow of profile control agent and wells pressure higher than fracture pressure that without injection. The original reservoir permeability is good, and individual well production has the capacity of 40 to 50m3/d. Yet recently several oil wells almost have fewer even no liquid output due to the blockage and stemming. Estimated by a typical well group,the speed of sol-gel drive increased from 10 m/year to 50~60 m/year, and average water injection pressure were up to 16MPa which almost double original pressure while the only 2MPa pressure corresponding to oil wells. Hence, it show that the severe depth blockage of the formation exactly exit in Menggulin reservoir.

A Streamline-Based Model of Wuliwan Oil Field Injecting Polymer Microspheres to Enhance Sweep Efficiency of Water Flooding

2011 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 451-455
Author(s):  
Zhao Qi Fan ◽  
Lin Song Cheng ◽  
Fu Dai ◽  
Jian Shen
Keyword(s):  
Water Injection ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Polymer Microspheres ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Microsphere ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Profile Control

Polymer microsphere is a deep profile control agent which has been developed in recent years. Microsphere’s excellently elastic property makes it possible to be injected, or to penetrate deep into formation, and plug high permeable layers. Many laboratory investigations have been carried out on polymer microspheres by researchers, and field tests also have been done in some oilfields. The laboratory and field test results show that polymer microspheres can plug pore throats effectively, decrease permeability of high permeable channels, thus force injected water to change it’s direction and enhance water-flood sweep efficiency. In this paper, based on the mechanisms of profile modifying and plugging of polymer microsphere, Streamline models have been build abstractly to simulate the profile controlling progress of polymer microspheres, observe the transformation of streamline field, and analyze its impact on the pressure of water injection wells and performance of oil wells. In the end, the mechanisms of profile modifying and plugging of polymer microspheres have been interpreted based on the streamline field.

Autonomously Controlling the Conformance of Injection-Well Fluids

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (06) ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
Mojtaba Moradi
Keyword(s):  
Flow Control ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Injection Well ◽  
Reservoir Pressure ◽  
Injection Wells ◽  
Control Valves ◽  
Sand Control ◽  
Control Devices ◽  
Fracture Growth

As production declines over time, the injection of fluids is required to enhance oil recovery and/or maintain the reservoir pressure. Whether applied at field startup or as a secondary recovery technique, waterflooding can boost oil recovery from less than 30% to 30–50%. The common problems associated with waterflooding include loss of injectivity, premature injector failure, and injection conformance. This can also lead to issues around insufficient voidage replacement, which can result in lower reservoir pressure and the production of fluid with a higher gas/oil ratio. In total field recovery, this ultimately means lower production and oil left untapped in the well. To remediate the issue of conformance, costly and often complex interventions and redrills were traditionally used to restore water-injection capability. Also, passive outflow-control devices have been used successfully to somewhat improve the fluid conformance from injection wells. However, they may fail in reservoirs with complex/dynamic properties including propagating/dilating fractures. Advanced Wells in Injection Wells There are a number of considerations when planning a water-injection completion, particularly around both the rock and fluid properties, as well as the credible risks that could occur, namely: - Uneven displacement of hydrocarbon - Fracture growth short-circuiting injectant-proximal wells - Fracture growth breaching caprock/basement seal - Crossflow, plugging, and solids fill Advanced completion options include deploying passive flow-control devices. For example, inflow-control devices (ICDs) are unable to react to dynamic changes in reservoir/well properties. This often requires production-logging-tool (PLT) logs, distributed temperature sensors, and/or tracers to be run and, if available, to apply the sleeve option. Alternatively, active (intelligent) completions, such as inflow-control valves, can be used, but they tend to be expensive and complicated and are limited to the number of zones. This technique also requires frequent analysis of data from the well to perform such actions. Tendeka, a global specialist in advanced completions, production solutions, and sand control, has developed FloFuse, a new and exclusively autonomous rate-limiting outflow-control device (AOCD) (Fig. 1). Using the analogy and inspiration of a home fuse box, which contains many individual fuses to control various parts of a building, the AOCD can control the excessive rate that passes through a specific section of a well, causing tripping once the threshold is reached. By almost shutting, i.e., significantly choking, the injection fluid into the fractures crossing the well, the AOCD autonomously prevents growth and excessive fluid injection into the thief/fracture zones and maintains a balanced or prescribed injection distribution. Like other flow-control valves, this device should be installed in several compartments in the injection well. Initially, devices operate as normal passive outflow control, but if the injected flow rate through the valve exceeds a designed limit, the device will automatically shut off. This allows the denied fluid to that specific compartment to be distributed among the neighboring compartments.

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