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OG-R 140 - Formation Damage Evaluation and Control Strategies
Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
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OG-R 140 | 18 November 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-R 140 | 23 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-R 140 | 27 January 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-R 140 | 24 March 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-R 140 | 19 May 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-R 140 | 14 July 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-R 140 | 08 September 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-R 140 | 03 November 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-R 140 | 29 December 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
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