Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments
The purpose of this 5-day course is to provide attendees with adequate knowledge in formation damage prevention and treatments.
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- Intermediate
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About Training
The purpose of this 5-day course is to provide attendees with adequate knowledge in formation damage prevention and treatments. The course will take participants through the types and mechanics of formation damage, and their preventions and treatments. This course will educate participants on how to avoid plugging and how to restore wells with plugging problems in the perforations or formation face.Beyond taking steps to eliminate severe permeability reduction in the near wellbore area, the next step is to obtain the best communication of the wellbore with the virgin formation. Therefore, fluids selection is critical as damage to the reservoir can result in impaired production and substantial loss of revenue to the Operator. This course has been designed to cover the laboratory techniques involved in formation damage testing and different well stimulation techniques to achieve the best reservoir-wellbore communications.
In this course, the causes and consequences of sand production will be discussed, followed by the prediction measures to decide or delay sand control in oil and gas project development. All the types of sandface completions and emerging technologies available in the industry today to prevent sand production and to boost well productivity results will be discussed.
Training Objectives
- UNDERSTAND the effect of formation damage on revenue to the operator
- UNDERSTAND the mechanism of formation damage
- LEARN how to select the best fluid at every phase of the well development
- LEARN the ways and steps how to diagnose formation damage problems
- GAIN the praticals of best treatment to a sandstone and carbonate reservoir
- LEARN how to stimulate tight reservoir with low porosity, low permeability and high permeability reservoir
Audiences
The course is designed for, but not limited to Completion Engineers, Workover Engineers, Production Engineers, and those who are involved with well completions, workovers, well interventions, and production.
- Completion Engineer
- Workover Engineer
- Well Services / Intervention Engineer
- Production Engineer
- Drilling Engineer
- Well Site Engineer
Instructor
Michael Etuhoko, P.Eng., PMP
Michael (Mike) Etuhoko is a well known consultant and founder of Protekz Inc. Canada, an independent well and production engineering consultancy company. He has over 22 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry. He has led major projects & trainings for major companies in Europe, North America, Africa, Central Asia, and Far East Asia. Mike currently consults worldwide in the area of Well Completion, Workover and Well Services, Sand Control, and Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments. Before working as a consultant, he has served several years in Shell and Total E&P , which has equipped him with a solid foundation in well completion and workover practices.
His Current and Recent Assignments Include the Following:
- Lead Completions & Intervention for Karachaganak Field, Kazakhstan
Completion & Intervention for Field with Characteristics: Deep wells (± 6200m TVD on the average), light oil/condensate and gas, High GOR, H2S > 7%, CO2 > 6%, low porosity, low permeability and HPHT reservoir environment
- Subsea Intervention/Workover/Completion for Korean National Oil Company
Diagnose and restore Donghae 1-4P Sub-sea well back to production
- Completions, Sand Control, & Well Testing (Deepwater Explroation Asset) for BG Nigeria
Responsible for “Well Completion and Testing” operations in deepwater exploration campaign
- Well Productivity for Total E&P
Scales Squeeze treatment for Dunbar, Alwyn, Otter and Elgin/Franklin fields; Fracturing design and operations in HPHT wells; Sand Control in HPHT wells, Water shut-off in HPHT wells
Mike has presented for several international conferences including Offshore Technology Conference, SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference, and SPE Annual Technical Conference Exhibition. He has also authored SPE papers on “Monobore Completion Using Interventionless Technology” and “Open Hole Multistage Fracturing Completion in Carbonate Reservoir.”
Daily Aims
Day One: Formation Damage
- Course Introduction & Overview Formation Damage
- Class exercise
- Laboratory techniques
Day Two: Stimulation of Sandstone Reservoir
- Stimulation of Sandstone reservoir
- Stimulation of Carbonate reservoir
- Class exercise: The objectives of the class exercise on Well stimulation
- Class group exercises on Matrix treatment design methodology
Day Three: Fracturing Technology
- Introduction to Hydraulic Fracturing
- Class exercise: The objectives of the class exercise on
- hydraulic fracturing
- Multistage Fracturing technology
Day Four: Modern Well Completion & Intro to Well Intervention
- Sand Control completion overview
- Sand detection
- Sand prediction and monitoring
- Sand Control completion
Day Five: Well Control & Well Workover
- Production problems Scales
- Paraffin /Wax
- Asphaltene
- Hydrates
- Water and gas shut off
- Diagnostics
Training Schedule
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