Fundamentals of petroleum Engineering

Part : 4
Well Completion

By
Petroleum Engineer
Abbas Radhi Abbas
Iraq / Missan / 2020

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 Contents

1.Introduction to Well Completion

2.Summary Of Completion Process

3.Completion Design criteria

Contents
Well 4.Types of Well Completion
Completion
5.Perforating
Fundamentals
6.Well completion equipment and Accessories

7.Well Stimulation

8.Well operations through the life of a well

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(1) Introduction to Well Completion

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Well life cycle

Drilling
(Development)

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What is well completion

“Completing a well”
means prepare the well
to put in production or
put in injection during
installing equipment in
the well to allow a safe
and controlled flow of
petroleum from the well.

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(2) Summary Of Completion Process

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Summary Of Completion Process

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Summary Of Completion Process

Setting production casing

 Production casing is the final casing

in a well.

 The hole is drilled beyond the

producing interval.

 Production casing is set and

cemented through the pay zone.

 The casing and cement actually seal

off the producing zone
Producing zone

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Summary Of Completion Process

Installing the Tubing and packer

Tubing
 Tubing is run into the well inside
production casing to help oil or gas to
flow to the surface.
 Packer is placed at a depth just above the
producing interval ( perforation )
 packer seal between outside of tubing Packer
and inside of casing to protect the casing
from damage during the production (
corrosion , H2s , CO2 …etc)

Perforation 19

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Installing the Christmas Tree

Installing the Christmas Tree

 A collection of valves called a Christmas tree is

installed on the surface at the top of the casing
hanger.
 As the well’s production flows up the tubing, it
enters the christmas tree.
 So, the production can be controlled by opening or
closing valves on the christmas tree.

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(3) Completion Design criteria

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(4) Completion Design criteria

• Open hole
• Cased hole
• Horizontal • Natural flow
• Multilateral • Artificial lift

Wellbore /reservoir / interface Production Zone Production Methods Number OF tubing string

• Single zone
• Multiple zone • Single string
• Multiple strings

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Data sources for completion design

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(4) Type Of Well Completion

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Well Completion classification matrix

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Open hole completion

open hole completions explains why

they are used in:

1.Low cost developments

2.Deep, consolidated reservoirs being

produced by depletion drive ensures
good , contact between fracture and
well

3.Naturally fractured reservoirs

4.Some horizontal and multi lateral

wells with high depletion costs

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Casing perforation-Tubing-less

Tubing-less
No Production tubing just perforated
casing and the production will be from
casing

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Single string completion- with casing

Single string completion with

casing

 It is the simplest way of

completing the well.
 In this method well is
completed for single zone
with single tubing

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Single string completion- with Liner

Single string completion with

Liner

 It is the simplest way of

completing the well.
 In this method well is
completed for single zone
with single tubing

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Single selective Completion

 Single string commingle

completions.

-All the reservoirs available in a well are

produced simultaneously through single
string.

-Should be avoided if possible to

eliminate cross-flow phenomena.

-Monitoring of reservoir performance is

extremely difficult

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Single selective Completion

Long tubing

Short tubing

packer

annulus
SSD
SSD

Zone (A)

packer
packer Tubing

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Short and long tubing and annulus 21

Single selective Completion

(1) (2) (3)

Commingle Completion
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Triple Completion

D1

D2

D3

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Liner Tieback Perforation Completion
Liner Tieback Perforation Completion
Liner perforation completion mentioned earlier is
only suitable for oil and gas wells with a medium
or low pressure. Under the conditions of no
packer or malfunctioning of packer on the tubing
string, the intermediate casing functions
practically as a production casing and has
difficulty withstanding high pressure of oil and
gas.

Currently, liner tieback perforation completion

is commonly applied to deep and ultra deep oil
and gas wells and to high-pressure and superhigh
pressure oil and gas wells and includes generally
running liner in, cementing, running in production
casing to tie back liner, cementing into
intermediate casing-production casing annulus
under atmospheric pressure and returning
cement slurry to the surface, and then perforating
at the liner, thus ensuring the cementing quality at
the oil reservoir and throughout the whole
wellbore above the oil reservoir and achieving
safe production of the oil and gas well. If the liner
is a screen pipe, the procedure is the same as
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Slotted Liner Completion

Slotted liner completion

also has two types of
procedures. In the first procedure, after drilling
through the oil reservoir using the same size bit, a
liner at the bottom of the casing string is run to
the position of the oil reservoir and then the well
is cemented using an external casing packer and
cement stinger to isolate the annulus above the
top boundary of the oil reservoir (Figure 2-7).
Under this procedure, the downhole liner damage
cannot be repaired or changed. Therefore, this
type of procedure is generally not applied..

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Open hole and cased hole Gravel pack Completion

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Example : well completion layout in vertical well

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Horizontal well Completion

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Multilateral Well completion

Rapid Connect Multilateral

Completion

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intelligent ( smart) completion ( ICD)

( ICD)-vertical well ( ICD)-Horizontal well 30

EOR- IOR

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Type Of Well Completion according to Artificial lift

The most popular forms of artificial lift are illustrated in figure

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Completion with ESP

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Completion with ESP

1-Commingled production of two

2-Selective production of two
zones with two ESPs.
zones 34
Completion with ESP

ESP unit.

4-Commingled production of two

3-Series installation of two ESP
zones with one ESP unit.
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Completion with beam pump (Sucker Rods Pumps)

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Completion with Progressing cavity Pump ( PCP )

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Completion with ( Gas-lift )

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Completion with ( Continues Gas-lift )

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Completion with ( intermittent Gas-lift )

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Completion with ( Plunger Gas-lift system )

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Completion with ( Hydraulic-lift -Pump)

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(5) perforation

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What is perforation ?

Perforation helps create a hole in the

casing through the cement and into the
formation to form a channel for the oil
and gas to flow from the producing
formation into the wellbore.

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When do perforation ?

Perforation

New wells Old wells

Afterdrill
After drill
wells During workover
1. Producer well well 1. Re perforation
1. Producer
2. Injector well 2. Add perforation
3. 2. Injector
Water sourcewell
well 3. Shut off perforation
3. Water source
well

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Petrophysics requirement

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Depth correction

Before run the perforation job for wells must do depth correction by run the logs
( GR , CCL) after that do correlation for depth with open hole GR and cased hole
CCL :

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Perforation operation and methods?

Perforation operation

Rig ( using drill pipe) Rigless

After drill wells

1. Drilling Rig 1. Slickline perforating
2. 1. Producer
Workover Rigwell 2. Coiled tubing
2. Injector well
3. Water source
well

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Perforation operation :

1. Run 6-5/8” or 7” liner

2. Cement operation for liner
3. Run cement bond log ( CBL ) or
Image

Now have two options for perforation

operation:

Option 1: perforate casing before set the

production tubing and packer , this case
use when perforate more than one layers
using single selective completion ( or
well will completion by Artificial lift ( ESP ,
Gas lift …etc)

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perforation operation :

perforation operation :
Option 2 : perforate casing after set the
production tubing and packer , this case
use when perforate one layer or more
than one layers is all zones below the
tubing shoe .

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Perforating techniques

Many wells are perforated using wireline conveyed guns.

Through tubing (small diameter) wireline guns are run
after installing the completion tubing. They are run down
the inside of the tubing, out of the tailpipe and perforate
the casing at the selected depth (Figure 13a)

the (larger diameter) guns can be lowered into the cased

wellbore prior to installation of the production tubing
(Figure 13b). Casing guns can be fired in an under
balanced or an over balanced pressure condition (i.e.
the pressure in the wellbore exceeds the reservoir
pressure). The well will normally have to be killed prior to
running the completion.

Finally, the perforating guns can also be tubing

conveyed; either on the end of the completion string
(Figure 13c) on coiled tubing or on a drill pipe test string.
The gun will be retrieved after well production (clean up)
prior to running the completion string in the latter case.

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Loading guns into the carrier

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Wireline, Through-Tubing, Perforating Guns.

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Perforation Gun and charge

through tubing perforating

Explosive
Total
Size SPF Phase type/Weig
depth
ht
6SP HMX
1-11/16" 0 18.19"
F （9gm）
RDX
6SP
2-1/8” 0 23.7" （13.9gm
F
）

TCP perforation
Explosive
Total
Size SPF Phase type/Weig
depth
ht
HMX
4-1/2" 5SPF 60 40.47"
（38gm）

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perforation phasing patterns

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Perforation Methods

1. Bullet Perforation
2. Jet Perforation
3. Hydraulic “Sand-jet” perforation
4. Perforation using laser technology
5. Horizontal oriented perforating system – HOPS

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1-Bullet perforation

 Bullets lose velocity when gun clearance >0.5 in.

 Often use in a unconsolidated formations
 Cheaper to use, rarely been used today
 Bullets plug the end of the flow channel

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2-Jet perforation

 It uses a shaped charges contained in

a perforating gun assembly.
 Gun assembly is placed in wireline,
tubing or coiled tubing, depending on
the application and the wellbore
conditions.
 High-pressure jet will penetrates the
casing or liner to shoot into the
reservoir formation to form channels.

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3-Hydraulic “Sand-jet” Perforation

 It uses high-pressure jetting of sand-laden fluid through an orifice

 Short penetration range

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4- perforation with Laser

 Conventional explosive charge perforation method reduces the rock

permeability
 Laser perforation increase the rock permeability, hence, increase the oil
or gas production rate of a well.

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5- Horizontal Orientated perforation System

This technology is mainly used for perforating in the wells of naturally fractured oil
reservoirs , horizontal wells, wells to be hydraulically fractured, and wells in which
sand control is required.
The perforating is generally opposite to the orientation in which the fracture
developed or the orientation perpendicular to the minimum horizontal in-situ
stress, thus favoring sand control or hydraulic fracturing operation and enhancing
the success ratio and effectiveness of operations.

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5- Horizontal Orientated perforation System

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(6) Well completion equipment
and Accessories

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Completion accessories play a valuable role in customizing completions for

well and reservoir specific requirements. Surveillance equipment design and
reliability is dependent upon other peripheral equipment in the well. The
accessories generally consist of tubing-mounted and flow-control equipment.
Some of these are listed:

1-Tubing Mounted. 2-Flow Control

1. Sliding sleeves This may be deployed inside
2. Landing nipples tubing with slick-line.
3. Expansion joints 1. Flow couplings
4. Side-pocket mandrel 2. Blanking plugs
5. Pump out subs 3. Equalizing standing valves
6. Blast joints 4. Circulating plugs

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Packers. These are down

hole devices used to provide
a seal between the inside of
the production casing and
outside of the tubing string.
The packer must not restrict
normal production flow . The
tubing-mounted packers are
either hydraulic or
mechanical set and can be
of the retrievable, isolation,
or production type.:

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Sliding Sleeves. Sliding sleeves

are used to establish
communication between tubing
string and the casing annulus for
single and multiple tubing string
completions. Other applications
include equalizing pressure
between an isolated formation and
the tubing string and directing flow
from casing to the tubing in an
alternate or selective completion.
The sleeves are generally shifted
using a wireline tool. In intelligent
completions the sliding sleeves are
remotely actuated from the surface
either hydraulically or electrically.

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Surface-controlled subsurface safety

valves (SCSSVs)
The SCSSVs are also installed in the
tubing string below the surface tubing
hanger. They are controlled by hydraulic
pressure through a capillary (control) line
that connects to a surface control panel .
Most SCSSV designs today use a flapper
to form a seal. Both elastomeric and
metal-to-metal seal designs are available.
The SCSSV is a normally closed (failsafe)
valve and requires continuous hydraulic
pressure on the control line to keep it open

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Y-tool
casing
The Y-tool is a solution to enable
production-logging and well intervention
below a working ESP at any point in time
during production without pulling the
completion string. The Y-tool is installed
Y-tool
on the production tubing, providing two
separate conduits. One conduit concentric
with the production tubing and enables
access to the reservoir below the ESP.
The second conduit is offset and used to
support the ESP system. Flow rates in
different perforation intervals and other
valuable geophysical information could be
collected for production optimization and
enhanced recovery plans.

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Wireline re-entry guide.

The wireline re-entry guide is run
on the end of the tubing string (or
the tail pipe below
the packer) and is designed to
facilitate re-entry into the tubing
string of those electric-line or slic-
kline assemblies. It has an
internally beveled, bell-shaped ID
that eliminates any sharp edges or
square shoulders and helps align
the tools as they are pulled back up
into the tubing string.

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Landing Nipple. These are short sections of

thick-walled tubulars machined internally to provide
a locking profile. Every subsurface control device
set inside a landing nipple is locked and sealed in
the profile with a locking mandrel. The locking
mandrel forms a seal because of the profile and
bore area in the nipple (e.g., X nipple requires an X-
lock profile, similarly for R nipple). Typically these
are used in conjunction with a wireline safety valve:

•Above a packer to pressure-test the tubing

•Below a packer to pack off above perforations
•In a multizone completion and at the bottom of tubing string for setting
bottomhole pressure gauges

There are three kinds of landing nipples. These are no-go, selective, and
subsurface valve landingnipples.
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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Side-Pocket Mandrel. These are

special receptacles with a chamber
parallel to the flow chamber. It provides
full uninterrupted flow through the
center. The parallel chamber is offset
for the string. This side chamber is
used to house a number of flow-control
devices. The primary use of side-pocket
mandrel is to house gas-lift equipment.
These are also used to wireline-mount
retrievable memory gauges for long-
term use.

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8-Well completion equipment and Accessories

Blast Joint
Blast joints are tubing sections with an increased wall
thickness, usually their internal diameter equals the
tubing’s diameter while the external one is equivalent
to the coupling’s diameter.
Blast joints should be installed in the section of
tubing string, passing through perforations in the
productive zones. In double or single selective
completion wells . Their function is to extend the
tubing’s lifecycle increasing its resistance to erosive
action of the flow.

Flow Coupling. This is a short piece of pipe that

has wall thickness greater than the tubing string.
They are used to delay erosional failure at a point
inside the completion string. A suggested rule of
thumb is to include flow couplings above and below a
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Blanking Plug. . These are designed to

seal tubing pressure from either above or
below the plug . Used for applications that
require either bleeding off pressure in the
tubing or circulating above the plugs.

Circulating Plugs
Hold pressure from below and allow flow
from above. Used to plug formation
pressure in the tubing string while
providing adequate flow area for pumping
into the formation.

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(7)Stimulation

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Sources of Formation Damage

Formation damage can occur throughout the life of the well from the
moment that the drill bit first penetrates the formation. All well activities
need to be evaluated for their potential for causing formation damage.
They include:

• Drilling
• Cementing
• Perforating
• Completion / Gravel Packing
• Production
• Injection
• Workover
• Stimulation

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skin

Skin :
the value of the total well skin (S total) measured during a production test has
many sources other than formation damage. It is very important to be able
to identify the formation damage component (Sd), since this can be reduced
by better operational practices or, possibly, be removed or bypassed by a
stimulation treatment.

The total well skin is a composite parameter:

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The effect of skin on well inflow pressure profiles

Most forms of formation damage reduce the rock permeability to a certain depth
away from the well. Figure 1 illustrates the resulting producing pressure profile
and compares it with the equivalent pressure profile for an undamaged well. The
resulting extra pressure drop (∆Pd) has to be compensated for either by a
reduced
pressure drop across the choke or by a smaller production rate.

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Formation Damage: Types , Diagnostic Clues and Remediation Techniques

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Options to remedy limitations on reservoir inflow performance

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Available stimulation techniques.

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The Stimulation Cycle

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Acid types

Currently, the main acid fluids used in acidizing treatments can be classified
into three different types:

1.mineral acids,
2.organic acids
3.retarded acids.

Different types of acids can be applied for different rock types and different
treatment purposes.

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1.mineral acids,

Lithology Petrophysicsal properties

Hydrochloric acid (HCl) carbonate rock types

Hydrofluoric acid (HF) sandstone

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The acid volume requirement

The acid volume should be high

enough to remove near-wellbore
formation damage and low
enough to reduce cost of
treatment. Selection of an
optimum acid volume is
complicated by the competing
effects. The volume of acid
needed depends strongly on the
depth of the damaged zone,
which is seldom known.

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1-Mineral Acids

Hydrochloric acid (HCl) : is commonly used acid for carbonate acidizing treatments,
due to its low cost and fast reaction with carbonate rock types (limestone and dolomite). It
is mostly used with the concentration of 15% (by weight) solution, to provide enough
dissolving power of acid and limit the corrosion of well tubulars. For stimulations where
acid dissolving power is not an issue, lower concentration of HCl can also be used to
further reduce the corrosion. The main disadvantage of HCl is still its high corrosivity,
especially at high downhole temperature (above 250 F), where the reaction rate between
HCl and steel tubulars is even faster and more difficult to control. Therefore, the
concentration of HCl depends on different stimulation treatments and wellbore conditions.

Hydrofluoric acid (HF), usually mixed with HCl, is mainly applied for sandstone acidizing.
Typically, 15% HCl and 3% HF solution is prepared. If any calcite presents in the
formation, calcium fluoride is the product due to the reaction between HF and calcite.

Calcium fluoride is insoluble in acid solutions, and may cause more damage to the porous
space of the formations. Therefore, appropriate preflush with HCl and pumping HF with
HCl is necessary to remove the carbonate minerals in sandstone formations and prevent
the precipitating reaction between calcite and HF.

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2- Organic acids

The advantage of organic acids is their lower corrosivity and slower reaction
compared to mineral acids. When the contacting time between acid and well
tubular is long or the wellbore downhole temperature is very high, organic acids
can be used to control the corrosion. Meanwhile, the dissolving power of organic
acids is also lower than mineral acids, resulting in less effective reaction
between acid and minerals in the formation. The two main organic acids used in
acidizing treatments are acetic acid and formic acids. Both acetic and formic
acids are more expensive than HCl, and are often used as one component in
retarded-acid systems or in the formations with high temperature.

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3- Retarded acids

Due to the fast reaction between HCl and carbonate minerals, acid injected can
be mostly spent at a very short distance from the wellbore without penetrating
deep enough into the formation. Thus, to achieve deeper acid penetration and
a successful acidizing treatment, it is necessary to retard acid reaction by
adding extra components into the acid systems. The most commonly used
retarded
acid systems are gelled acids and emulsified acids.

By mixing gelling agents (polymers and surfactants) with acids, gelled acid
systems can be achieved. By increasing the viscosity of acid systems, the
transportation of acid from fluid stream to formation rocks is significantly
reduced, and ultimately slows down the acid reaction. Thus, more acid can be
transported deeper into the formation and increase the chance of a successful
treatment. However, the stability of gelling agents are strongly dependent on
the downhole temperature. At high temperature, many gelling agents can
degrade causing the gelling acid system to lose its viscosity

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3- Retarded acids

It is recommended to use gelling acids at lowmoderate bottom-hole

temperature. Some other gelled acid systems depend on the pH value of
the solution. Once the acid is spent and pH of fluids is high, the viscosity of
gelled acid can be significantly increased. Meanwhile, due to the high viscosity
of gelled acids, it can also be used as a diverter by temporarily blocking the
high permeability zones and divert the acids to desired zones.

Emulsified acid can be prepared by mixing acid, oil phase and emulsifier
together, which contains 20% 30% of oil phase. Droplets are formed by having
the oil phase as an external film and having acid as the internal phase. The
presence of external oil film reduces the diffusion rate of acid phase to the rock
surface, thus retarding the reaction rate between acid and rocks. Stability of
emulsions are also dependent on downhole temperature.

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Chemical Reactions in Acid Treatments

Silicate minerals such as clays and feldspars in sandstone pores are

normally removed using mixtures of HF and HCl, whereas carbonate
minerals are usually attacked with HCl

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(8) Well operations through the
life of a well

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Well operations through the life of a well

During the life of the well many operation happen and some of these
operation will lead to change the completion type such us :

1. Data acquisition
2. integrity monitoring and repair
3. Water or gas shut-off
4. Debris removal and sand control
5. Sidetrack and well Deeping
6. Tubing replacement
7. Flow assurance
8. stimulation
9. Perforating
10. Using Artificial- lift
11. Convert well to injector

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Well operations through the life of a well

Opportunity Reason Main Methods

1- Data All data acquisition support of : using :
acquisition 1-production logging
1-decision to determine the water tools ( PLT)
problem then do water shut-off 2- saturation logging
3- well test
2-Determine the reservoir
pressure decline
2-integrity Maintaining integrity of the well is 1- for poor cement do
monitoring and important some time high pressure remedial
repair in annulus because poor cement 2- for casing damage
or casing damage or tubing should solve that by many
damage methods depend on
damage size
3- for tubing damage can
replacing it

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Well operations through the life of a well

Opportunity Reason Main Methods

3- water shut- off Excess water will : Many method using for water
1-reduce tubing performance shut-off can do it rig less operation
2- constrain production due to or by work-over rig :
surface processing limitation 1- through tubing bridge plug
3- maybe shut well ( stop the 2- cement plug
production ) if well natural flow 3-Bridge plug
4- gel squeeze
---etc

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Well operations through the life of a well

Opportunity Reason Main Methods

4- Debris removal Many wells fill up with Debris can be removed by slickline
and sand control debris (perforating (bailing), which is slow. Coiled
debris, sand or chalk, tubing and jointed pipe (hydraulic
corrosion products, workover unit) are more effective
drilling materials, junk and can incorporate mills and
and proppant). This jetting. Reverse circulation can be
debris can cover more effective than forward
production/injection circulation but requires the well to
intervals. be overbalanced
Remedial sand control is difficult;
techniques include sand
consolidation, insert screens and
sidetracks (especially with total
screen failure).

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Well operations through the life of a well

Opportunity Reason Main Methods

5.Sidetrack and well Completion sidetracks are to
Deeping replace a failed reservoir
completion and are often located
close to the existing wellbore
Geological sidetracks move the
wellboreto access new reserves
1-Pull out original string
2-Close the hole bottom by
cement
3-Use whipstock
4-Then go sidetrack

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Well operations through the life of a well
Opportunity Reason
6-Tubing Replacing failed tubing
replacements or components. Different
tubing sizes or adding
artificial lift may enhance
performance
7-Flow assurance The prevention of
restrictions to flow
caused by scale, wax,
asphaltene, etc
Main Methods
Top hole workover (reservoir remains
isolated) or full workover (entire
completion pulled)
Techniques include straight pull (e.g.
above a tubing disconnect) or
chemical/mechanical cut. Packers
may need to be milled.
Prevention methods include inhibitor
squeezes (bullheading, coiled tubing
or jointed pipe) and batch treatments.
Removal techniques can involve
bullheading or circulation of chemicals
from
surface (e.g. acids or hot oiling),
pipe operations ( jetting, washing,
milling, pulsation) or mechanical
removal with wireline (blasting,
cutting, reperforating).
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Well operations through the life of a well

Opportunity Reason Main Methods

8- stimulation Stimulation can be Most stimulations can be performed

performed during well
construction or post well
construction. Many
stimulations have to be
periodically repeated.
through tubing either by
bullheading or with coiled tubing.
Proppant fracturing

9-perforation This can be to add new Most perforating, post well

completion intervals construction will be through
(e.g. identified from tubing (wireline or coiled
production logs) or to tubing/jointed pipe).
reperforate existing
intervals that are
performing badly (poor
initial perforating, scaled
up, etc.)

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Well operations through the life of a well
Opportunity Reason
10-Using Artificial- lift Many wells benefit from
artificial lift late in field
life when pressures
are lower and water
cuts higher.
11-Conversion of As wells mature, they are
duty frequently converted
from oil/gas production
to some other duty
(especially injection).
Injection options include
water (including
produced water), gas,
water alternating
gas (WAG), carbon
dioxide and other
waste streams.
Main Methods
Artificial lift can be added by
through tubing interventions
(gas lift, jet pumps, some rod pumps
and hydraulic submersible
pumps)
Depending on the well design, no
downhole intervention may be
required. The production intervals
may require reconfiguring (shutting
off some intervals, opening up
others). If the tubing metallurgy or
size is not suitable for the new duty,
it may need replacing
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Reference

1. Well completion course – ENI company

2. Well logging course – ( NEXT ) Schlumberger company
3. Production optimization course ( CNOOC ) company
4. Well completion course – Baker Hughes company
5. Well completion and stimulation – UTM university
6. Advanced Well Completion Engineering, 3rd Edition
7. Reservoir Surveillance-Jitendra Kikani
8. Baker Cased Hole applications catalog

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About Authorized

Name: Abbas Radhi Abbas

Position: Chief Engineer / petroleum Engineer

Nationality: Iraq- Missan

Date of Birth: 1978

Gender: Male

Education Background:

Period Education description

1996-2001 University of Bagdad – college of Engineering – petroleum engineering department- (BSc)

Certificates of Appreciation

15 Certificates of Appreciation from difrent international companies such as (Schlumberger- waetherford , CNOOC , COSL ,
BHDC )

Work Experience : in Missan Oil Company ( MOC)

Period Work description

(2004-2006) reservoir engineer

(2006-2010 ) water injection engineer

during (2011) drilling and workover engineer

(2011 to 2020 ) petrophysics manager in Reservoir department

Language:
Arabic
Mother language:
Second
language/level: English/Fluent oral and written in English.

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Thank You!

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