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Formation Damage
Formation Damage
Barham S Mahmood
Formation Damage
Damage is anything which push the formation fluid into well and then to the
surface and most commonly happen during drilling operation. This damage maybe
occurs in the formation (Reservoir), lift system, perforation, and restriction along
the flow system. Formation damage is defined as the damaging in permeability of
the formation near the wellbore by various processes. In addition formation
damage defined in difference explanation by some famous personalities such As
expressed by [Amaefule et al. (1988), “ he said that Formation damage is an
expensive headache to the oil and gas industry.” Bennion (1999) defined
formation damage as, “The impairment of the invisible, by the inevitable and
uncontrollable, causing in an indeterminate reduction of the unquantifiable!”]
[ CITATION Civ15 \l 1033 ]. Also formation damage maybe affect only near wellbore
region of a well, only a few centimeters or it could be extend deep into the
formation. Based on the type of well operation, reservoir and fluid condition there
is four main categories of formation damage mechanisms which are mechanical,
chemical, biological and thermal which they can be divided into smaller categories.
Each of those categories represents some causing of formation damage.
References
1. Civan, F. chapter1 overview of formation damage. s.l. : Gulf Professional Publishing., 2015,
p. 1.
2. The Defining Series: Formation Damage. Irene Faergestad, Editor. s.l. : Schlumberger,
2016.