Advanced Well Completion Engineering

Renpu Wan

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780123858689
• eBook ISBN: 9780123858696
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

Once a natural gas or oil well is drilled, and it has been verified that commercially viable, it must be "completed" to allow for the flow of petroleum or natural gas out of the formation and up to the surface. This process includes: casing, pressure and temperature evaluation, and the proper instillation of equipment to ensure an efficient flow out of the well. In recent years, these processes have been greatly enhanced by new technologies. Advanced Well Completion Engineering summarizes and explains these advances while providing expert advice for deploying these new breakthrough engineering systems. The book has two themes: one, the idea of preventing damage, and preventing formation from drilling into an oil formation to putting the well introduction stage; and two, the utilization of nodal system analysis method, which optimizes the pressure distribution from reservoir to well head, and plays the sensitivity analysis to design the tubing diameters first and then the production casing size, so as to achieve whole system optimization. With this book, drilling and production engineers should be able to improve operational efficiency by applying the latest state of the art technology in all facets of well completion during development drilling-completion and work over operations. - One of the only books devoted to the key technologies for all major aspects of advanced well completion activities. - Unique coverage of all aspects of well completion activities based on 25 years in the exploration, production and completion industry. - Matchless in-depth technical advice for achieving operational excellence with advance solutions.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Table of Contents
• Front matter
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface to the Third Edition
• About the Author
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Basis of Well Completion Engineering
• 1.1. Grounds of reservoir geology and reservoir engineering
• 1.2. Core analysis techniques
• 1.3. Reservoir sensitivity to fluid and working fluid damage evaluation
• 1.4. Reservoir stress sensitivity analysis
• 1.5. In situ stress and mechanical parameters of rock
• 1.6. Technological grounds of petroleum production engineering
• Chapter 2. Well Completion Mode Selection
• Chapter 3. Selection and Determination of Tubing and Production Casing Sizes
• Chapter 4. Completion and Perforating Fluids
• Chapter 5. Production Casing and Cementing
• 5.1. Basic Requirements for Production Casing Design and Integrity Management of Production Casing
• 5.2. Hole Structure and Types of Casing
• 5.3. Strength of Casing and Strength Design of Casing String
• 5.4. Cementing
• 5.5. Production Casing and Cementing for Complex Type Wells
• Chapter 6. Perforating
• Chapter 7. Well Completion Formation Damage Evaluation
• Chapter 8. Measures for Putting a Well into Production
• 8.1. Preparations before Putting a Well into Production
• 8.2. Main Measures for Putting the Well into Production
• 8.3. Physical and Chemical Blocking Removal
• 8.4. Hydraulic Fracturing for Putting a Well into Production
• 8.5. Acidizing for Putting a Well into Production
• 8.6. High-Energy Gas Fracturing for Putting a Well into Production
• 8.7. Flowing Back
• Chapter 9. Well Completion Tubing String
• Chapter 10. Wellhead Assembly
• Chapter 11. Oil and Gas Well Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention
• 11.1. Related Calculation of Oil and Gas Well Corrosion
• 11.2. Oil and Gas Well Corrosion Mechanisms and Classification
• 11.3. Material Selection for Corrosive Environment of Oil and Gas Wells
• 11.4. Oil and Gas Well Corrosion Prevention Design
• 11.5. Tubing and Casing Corrosion Prevention for Sour Gas Reservoirs
• Index