Open AccessDEVELOPMENT OF NEW DRILLING FLUIDS
Author(s) -
David Burnett
Publication year - 2003
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/821094
Subject(s) - usable , drilling fluid , phase (matter) , software deployment , process (computing) , petroleum engineering , computer science , drilling , mechanism (biology) , drill , completion (oil and gas wells) , work (physics) , construction engineering , engineering , mechanical engineering , chemistry , software engineering , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , world wide web , operating system
The goal of the project has been to develop new types of drill-in fluids (DIFs) and completion fluids (CFs) for use in natural gas reservoirs. Phase 1 of the project was a 24-month study to develop the concept of advanced type of fluids usable in well completions. Phase 1 tested this concept and created a kinetic mathematical model to accurately track the fluid's behavior under downhole conditions. Phase 2 includes tests of the new materials and practices. Work includes the preparation of new materials and the deployment of the new fluids and new practices to the field. The project addresses the special problem of formation damage issues related to the use of CFs and DIFs in open hole horizontal well completions. The concept of a ''removable filtercake'' has, as its basis, a mechanism to initiate or trigger the removal process. Our approach to developing such a mechanism is to identify the components of the filtercake and measure the change in the characteristics of these components when certain cleanup (filtercake removal) techniques are employed