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OG-R 140 - Formation Damage Evaluation and Control Strategies

Code Start Date Duration Venue
OG-R 140 22 April 2024 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
OG-R 140 27 May 2024 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
OG-R 140 01 July 2024 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
OG-R 140 05 August 2024 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
OG-R 140 09 September 2024 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
OG-R 140 14 October 2024 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
OG-R 140 18 November 2024 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
OG-R 140 23 December 2024 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
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Course Description

This course provides a broad overview of the nature of formation damage problems, how they occur during various oilfield operations, and their effects on well productivity. It reviews basic rock properties affected  by formation damage, discusses the  types  and  mechanisms  of  formation  damage, evaluates  economic  implications,  and integrates field and laboratory methods  for recognition of the  damage. Also, it Provides    geological    and   engineering   techniques for proper evaluation of the problem and procedures to minimize / alleviate it.

Course Objectives

  • Recognizing formation damage problem during any stage of well development and reservoir exploitation.
  • Evaluating drilling and completion practices to establish procedures for selection of non-damaging systems.
  • Developing procedures to assess and integrate laboratory and field techniques to recognize and treat formation damage.
  • Quantify the annual revenue loss associated with formation damage

Course Overview

  • Review of basic rock properties affected by formation damage
  • introduction to formation damage
  • scale and precipitate damage
  • organic deposition
  • bacteria
  • Perforation
  • Economic implication of formation damage
  • Method for recognition of formation damage
  • Formation damage prevention
  • Evaluation of formation damage caused by completion and workover fluids

Who Should Attend?

  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Reservoir Engineers
  • Production Engineers
  • Drilling Engineers
  • Reservoir Geologists
  • Petrophysists

Course Details/Schedule

Day 1

  • Review of basic rock properties affected by formation damage
  • The reservoir system
  • Wellbore activity system
  • Classification of rocks
  • Composition of carbonate deposit
  • Review of basic mineralogy 

Day 2

  • Introduction to Formation Damage
  • Basic definitions
  • Potential formation damage problems during various well operation
  • Drilling
  • Casing and cementing
  • Completion
  • Well intervention
  • Well stimulation
  • Production
  • Secondary recovery operations- water injection
  • Enhanced oil recovery

Day 3

  • Scale and precipitate damage
  • Scale deposition, removal and prevention
  • Tendency of brines to deposit scales
  • Prediction and identification of scales
  • Paraffins
  • Formation of paraffin deposits
  • Paraffin removal
  • Asphaltenes
  • Oil sludge prevention
  • Methods of acid sludge removal

Day 4

  • Sulfate reducing bacteria
  • Slime forming bacteria
  • Iron bacteria
  • Prevention of bacteria
  • Perforation theory & damage
  • Perforation shot density
  • Compacted zone
  • Perforation plugging
  • Role of under-balance in improved perforation flow
  • Development of flow-diagrams and process maps

Day 5

  • Drill stem tests
  • Resistivity log
  • Production history review
  • Comparison of production performance of offset wells (Class problem)
  • Pressure transient well test analysis
  • Nodal system analysis
  • Production logging
  • Laboratory core analysis method
  • Tests to perform on formation damage
  • Filtration
  • Removal of formation damage
  • Evaluation of formation damage caused by completion and workover fluids