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  1. Fracing safe for California's Inglewood oil field, study says

    Online Articles

    Mon, 22 Oct 2012

    2004, p. 37). "Tests conducted before, during, and after the use of hydraulic fracturing and high-rate gravel packing showed no effects on the integrity of the steel and cement casings that enclose oil wells," the study said. "There

  2. Cross-discipline technologies complete deepwater wells off Brazil

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 4 Nov 2002

    system with specialized openhole gravel - packing processes and technologies that ..... the Campos basin. The openhole gravel packing with zonal isolation packers had ..... 1). Openhole gravel packs Gravel - packing openhole completions in oil and

  3. Tools, procedures facilitate complex well completions

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 21 Feb 2005

    during drilling. A combination of gravel - packing service tools and oil-based ..... practices. He said conventional gravel - packing practices require the entire ..... drilling with oil-based fluid and gravel packing with water-based fluid when

  4. SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 3 Oct 2011

    value sand management completions method. The technology is an alternative to conventional completion methods such as gravel packing and expandable screens. Officials said it produced better-than-expected results in several recent operator

  5. SCHLUMBERGER PIONEERS RECORD DEEPWATER OPEN-HOLE GRAVEL PACK COMPLETIONS

    Online Articles

    Thu, 1 Apr 2010

    nozzle The requirement for the gravel packing carrier fluid needed to have enough ..... systems, and its ClearPAC* MS gravel packing fluid system, to ensure a complete ..... the voids that can form during gravel packing even under fracturing conditions

  6. ESP—Conclusion: Multiple factors affect electrical submersible pump run life

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 1 Nov 2010

    handling solids, it remains beneficial to remediate solids production via sand-control completion methods such as gravel packing or application of expandable screens. It is also important not to underestimate that the well's propensity to produce

  7. Special Report: Sand control unlocks shallow gas formerly regarded as drilling hazard

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 2 Mar 2009

    primary limitation of openhole gravel packing in the A12 project was the low frac ..... operations.” Logistics for gravel packing also concerned Chevron because ..... long distance to the shore base. Gravel packing would have required intensive

  8. Sand, gravel properties key to optimum designs

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 26 Jan 1998

    the industry is witnessing more gravel packing , possibly because the industry ..... design as well as the fact that gravel packing technology has been improved ..... most reliable are principally gravel packing and screen system control techniques

  9. FRACTURING HIGH-PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 20 Jun 1994

    cannot be avoided and conventional gravel packing or packed fracture methods with ..... wells that are candidates for gravel packing are also good candidates for high ..... 20/40 mesh or larger sand. Gravel - packing typically employs smaller sand

  10. Non-frac stimulation technologies mark progress too

    Magazine Articles

    Mon, 22 Sep 2008

    fluid. Reduced hole collapse problems. Maintenance of oil-based fluid wall cake to enable return circulation for gravel packing . No requirement for the mud to be pumped through the screen during the transition process. Lower fluid associated