This course provides knowledge and skills needed to identify well damage issues in sandstone and carbonate reservoirs, and design acidizing programs.
Public :
Drilling or completion engineers, supervisors, lab or production professionals, non-specialists in wellbore treatment.
Level :Skilled
Prerequisite :
Kindly refer to the following complementary course which might be of interest: “Wellbore Treatments”.
Course Content
INTRODUCTION TO RESERVOIR TREATMENTS
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Fundamental reminders on the Productivity Index (PI), the skin effect and flow efficiency, the different components of the skin.
FORMATION DAMAGE
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Duration : 1 Day
Productivity issues: cause of low productivity, nature and origins of the damage, location of the problems and possible solutions.
Scale deposition: scale control and prevention.
MATRIX TREATMENT: ACIDIZING CARBONATES
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Duration : 1 Day
Aims; how it works.
Sandstones: inner characteristics, reactivity to injected fluids.
Laboratory studies.
Exercises.
MATRIX TREATMENT: ACIDIZING SANDSTONES
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Duration : 1 Day
Aims; how it works.
Sandstones: inner characteristics, reactivity to injected fluids.
Choosing the acids.
ACIDIZING ADDITIVES
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Review of the different additives (corrosion inhibitor, iron complexing agents, surfactants, solvents, etc.).
Selection of the additives.
MATRIX TREATMENT DESIGN
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Duration : 0.75 Day
Candidate selection.
Matrix design methodology.
Diversion.
Treatment evaluation.
Other associated processes (water shut-off…).
Causes of failure in matrix acidizing.
Case study.
KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
identify the nature and the origins of well damage,
design an acidizing program,
select the additives needed,
identify the cadidates wells,
set up the acid treatment program..=
Ways & Means
Exercises - Teamwork.
Visit of a reservoir-wellbore interface laboratory (if available).
Learning assessment
Quiz.
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Additional information :Kindly refer to the following complementary course which might be of interest: “Wellbore Treatments”.
Coordinator :IFP Training instructors, with expertise in the field and trained in modern teaching methods adapted to the specific needs of learners from the professional world.
To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding.
Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com
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