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Title: CAVITY LIKE COMPLETIONS IN WEAK SANDS PREFERRED UPSTREAM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

Abstract

The technology referred to as Cavity Like Completions (CLC) offers a new technique to complete wells in friable and unconsolidated sands. A successfully designed CLC provides significant increases in well PI (performance index) at lower costs than alternative completion techniques. CLC technology is being developed and documented by a partnership of major oil and gas companies through a GPRI (Global Petroleum Research Institute) joint venture. Through the DOE-funded PUMP program, the experiences of the members of the joint venture will be described for other oil and gas producing companies. To date six examples of CLC completions have been investigated by the JV. The project was performed to introduce a new type of completion (or recompletion) technique to the industry that, in many cases, offers a more cost effective method to produce oil and gas from friable reservoirs. The project's scope of work included: (1) Further develop theory, laboratory and field data into a unified model to predict performance of cavity completion; (2) Perform at least one well test for cavity completion (well provided by one of the sponsor companies); (3) Provide summary of geo-mechanical models for PI increase; and (4) Develop guidelines to evaluate success of potential cavity completion. Themore » project tracks the experiences of a joint industry consortium (GPRI No. 17) over a three year period and compiles results of the activities of this group.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Texas A& M University (US)
Sponsoring Org.:
(US)
OSTI Identifier:
834173
DOE Contract Number:  
FC26-02NT15275
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 30 Apr 2004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; JOINT VENTURES; MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE; PETROLEUM; RECOMMENDATIONS; UNIFIED MODEL

Citation Formats

Palmer, Ian, and McLennan, John. CAVITY LIKE COMPLETIONS IN WEAK SANDS PREFERRED UPSTREAM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. United States: N. p., 2004. Web. doi:10.2172/834173.
Palmer, Ian, & McLennan, John. CAVITY LIKE COMPLETIONS IN WEAK SANDS PREFERRED UPSTREAM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/834173
Palmer, Ian, and McLennan, John. 2004. "CAVITY LIKE COMPLETIONS IN WEAK SANDS PREFERRED UPSTREAM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/834173. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/834173.
@article{osti_834173,
title = {CAVITY LIKE COMPLETIONS IN WEAK SANDS PREFERRED UPSTREAM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES},
author = {Palmer, Ian and McLennan, John},
abstractNote = {The technology referred to as Cavity Like Completions (CLC) offers a new technique to complete wells in friable and unconsolidated sands. A successfully designed CLC provides significant increases in well PI (performance index) at lower costs than alternative completion techniques. CLC technology is being developed and documented by a partnership of major oil and gas companies through a GPRI (Global Petroleum Research Institute) joint venture. Through the DOE-funded PUMP program, the experiences of the members of the joint venture will be described for other oil and gas producing companies. To date six examples of CLC completions have been investigated by the JV. The project was performed to introduce a new type of completion (or recompletion) technique to the industry that, in many cases, offers a more cost effective method to produce oil and gas from friable reservoirs. The project's scope of work included: (1) Further develop theory, laboratory and field data into a unified model to predict performance of cavity completion; (2) Perform at least one well test for cavity completion (well provided by one of the sponsor companies); (3) Provide summary of geo-mechanical models for PI increase; and (4) Develop guidelines to evaluate success of potential cavity completion. The project tracks the experiences of a joint industry consortium (GPRI No. 17) over a three year period and compiles results of the activities of this group.},
doi = {10.2172/834173},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/834173}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2004},
month = {Fri Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2004}
}