... presents field case studies of a new microparticles-based slurry (MPS) technology that proves ease of operations and an improvement in production across four different US shale basins. Non-hazardous water-based slurry contains engineered glass microparticles with a median size of 550–625 mesh...

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... of shunts from toe to heel with much less gravel than required to fill the annulus void. After this initial packing stage, shunt packing began, and additional packing in all of the sections occurred. During this part of the packing process, losses began which resulted in all of the final slurry exiting...

... of these gravel packs are pumped with no positive pump pressure as the positive u-tube pressure of the additional hydrostatic weight of the slurry in the work string is higher than the overall friction pressure in the system. This effect can have a significant impact on the job execution in several ways...

...-volume fraction through the tubing to the perforations. This sealing material is a high-quality, quartz-based slurry using an engineered particle-size distribution (PSD) from <100 nm to 2 mm. The specific PSD of the solids in this slurry is designed to maintain pumpability and ensure near-zero...

... and yield logs. In addition to placing small volumes of traced cement, each one also included a different tracer concentration ( Figure 3 ). All traced sections were 0.8 m 3 (5 bbls) and placed throughout the lead cement slurry, with the first tracer concentration of 4% NRT (~2% by volume) in the very...

... and job execution practices and specified the slurry design, placement, and verification criteria for each casing section. Each section was prepared on a uniform structure of job objectives, risks, assumptions & boundaries, solutions and mitigations and finally a proposed cement job design. A detailed...

... Proppant transport mechanisms of different fracturing fluids have been previously studied by pumping a premixed proppant laden slurry into an open, homogeneous slot. The size, shape and orientation of different slot equipment have been designed and used for specific purpose. Early studies of sand...

... No breach in flow was observed on any of the six test samples during erosion test. A slight leading-edge erosion was observed on jumper tubes which had no impact on shunt pressure rating as confirmed by pressure tests that followed slurry erosion test. Each of the six test samples were pressure...

... conformance solution reservoir characterization reservoir surveillance directional drilling casing and cementing concentration knowledge management enhanced recovery drillstem testing net pressure void space conduit society of petroleum engineers rppg treatment producer slurry field trial...

... completion gauge friction increase diverter valve case history sand control drill pipe obm openhole slurry pack front displacement spe drill open hole friction gradient gravel Introduction In a subsea environment the cost of intervention and remediation is substantial. Therefore...

... seal, expanding to accommodate downhole changes and healing if any hydrocarbon reaches it. This technology has been used in four wells in the field with excellent results. Two wells were used to demonstrate the capabilities of the self-healing cement as a lead cement slurry, which created a cap over...

... to continue to carry proppant could be well into single digits, as the slurry reaches deep into the induced/natural fracture network. Today's unconventional, low viscosity, high rate fracture treatments allow millions of pounds of proppant to be placed in each well. This is helped by the drag force...

... is ahead of the cement slurry, displacing the mud. Stability and mixability were also studied to determine the effect of the bio-micromaterial addition to the spacer fluid. Finally, a fundamental scientific study using thermogravimetric analysis and imaging techniques was done to characterize the material...

... the previous job designed with commercial lightweight cement, the new cement has provided far greater compressive strength and has shown faster (18 to 24 hr) strength development. During placement, the new lightweight cement slurry has demonstrated exceptional stability with fewer additives than the previous...

... protocols were developed to enable the demonstration of the capabilities of this new system. In addition, API testing methods and analytical techniques were used to optimize the slurry. The development of the new cement system focused on the optimization of the active component concentration to give...

... Abstract Wellbore cementing is critical for zonal isolation, bonding and supporting the casing downhole. In this paper, a novel high-performance micromaterial is presented for significantly improving the quality of the cement slurry and set cement tested in different API cements for horizontal...

... conditions at the time of drilling, which dictate the cement slurry properties and displacement regime consideration. However, the objective of well cementing is to not only place cement correctly in the annulus after a section is drilled, but also to provide zonal isolation between the respective zones...

... operating procedures, intelligent self-healing cementing slurries, and novel placement techniques enabled the wells to be successfully abandoned with layers of contingency to prevent a catastrophic environmental release. The plug and abandon operations were divided into two phases. Phase 1 was rig-less...