... Abstract This paper presents the methods for validating the first successful industrial and field deployment of a high-power laser (HPL) perforating tool. The technology is able to perforate wells without damaging the surrounding substrate's integrity and improving the formation's flow-related...

... Abstract This paper presents the industry's first high-power laser field perforation and deployment—a successful high-power laser technology application. The innovative technology could perforate a well without affecting the substrate integrity and damage. The technology is safe, efficient...

... Abstract This paper presents a hybrid approach to reduce hydraulic fracturing braking pressure by integrating high-power laser energy with hydraulic fracturing operations. The innovative technology reduced the formation's breaking pressure by 68%, improving the operation efficiency...

... Abstract This paper presents the critical successes towards developing high-power laser (HPL) drilling applications. The accomplishment of the recent field trial in a live well demonstrated that it is possible to mobilize a high-power laser system from the lab to the field and perform the first...

... At the onset, lasers emitted a bright beam with low power (micro-to-milli Watts), low efficiency (<10% plug efficiency), and required specialized users. These barriers made the laser unusable to penetrate rocks, metals, or other matter found in the upstream business. As the technology evolved...

... remediation of hydrates laser asphaltene inhibition oilfield chemistry asphaltene remediation wax inhibition upstream oil & gas hydrate inhibition hydrate remediation wax remediation paraffin remediation high-power laser scale inhibition production chemistry scale remediation...

... Abstract The objective of this work is to present a successful case study of deploying high power laser cladding in highly sour wells as protection from corrosion. High power laser cladding uses superalloy material and is welded to the pipe, creating a thin and strong film that adheres...

... is the mean strain rate. The Lamé elastic constants λ and μ are related to Young's modulus E and Poisson ratio v as follows: λ = v E ( 1 + v ) ( 1 − 2 v ) ;     μ = E 2 ( 1 + v ) Governing equations Abstract High power lasers can weaken...

... The application of high power lasers to create the path between wellbore and target reservoir could significantly reduce the primary drawbacks of using explosives – safety and damage. It is desired that the process of cutting through steel, cement and rock by the laser would leave a relatively...

... Abstract According to many in the laser industry, fiber lasers are now a serious alternative to solid-state and carbon dioxide lasers for industrial material-processing applications. Over the past two years, commercially available fiber lasers have increased in power from several watts...

...) has demonstrated, through the application of high-energy lasers to rock samples, that damage to permeability and porosity of the adjacent zones cannot only be reduced, but that near-hole permeability in a reservoir sandstone can be increased up to 171%. By applying this technique downhole...

... Early studies from the 1960s and 1970s relating laser energy applications for well construction were primarily theoretical, with imbedded assumptions that rock removal mechanisms were due to the melting of rocks and minerals. The calculations resulting from these assumptions indicated...

... destruction technique to another. This paper compares specific energy between drilling with high power lasers and other drilling techniques such as traditional rotary and other novel methods such as water jets. Specific energy calculations made from laboratory measurements taken using four high power lasers...

... Abstract Samples of sandstone, limestone, and shale were prepared for laser beam interaction with a 1.6 kW pulsed Nd:YAG laser beam to determine how the beam's size, power, repetition rate, pulse width, exposure time and energy can affect the amount of energy transferred to the rock...

... Department'sStarWars laser technology. Results of tests conducted at theU.S. Air Force's high power laser research facilities arepresented. This phase of the research has used the C hemical O xygen- I odine L aser (COIL) high-powered laser invented bythe U.S. Air Force in 1977 for air-to-air defense. Located bof[b...

... StarWars laser technology. Results of tests conducted at the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army's high power laser research facilities are presented. Initial testing on reservoir rocks conducted with the M id I nfrared A dvanced C hemical L aser (MIRACL) at the U.S. Army's High Energy Laser Systems...

...SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS OF AIME 6200 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75206 PAPER NUMBER SPE 3529 THIS IS A PREPRINT SUBJECT TO CORRECTION ROCK CUTTING BY LASER By Jeffrey P. Carstens and Clyde 0. Brown, United Aircraft Research Laboratories East Hartford, Connecticut © Copyright 1971...

...SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS OF AIME 6200 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75206 SPEPAPER NUMBER 2240 THIS IS A PREPRINT SUBJECT TO CORRECTION Use of Laser and Surface Active Agents for Excavation 1n Hard Rocks By F. Moavenzadeh, F. J. McGarry, Member AIME, Massachusetts Institute...