Reservoir Formation Damage

Reservoir Formation Damage, Third Edition, provides the latest information on the economic problems that can occur during various phases of oil and gas recovery from subsurface reservoirs, including production, drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and workover operations.

The text helps readers better understand the processes causing formation damage and the factors that can lead to reduced flow efficiency in near-wellbore formation during the various phases of oil and gas production.

The third edition in the series provides the most all-encompassing volume to date, adding new material on conformance and water control, hydraulic fracturing, special procedures for unconventional reservoirs, field applications design, and cost assessment for damage control measures and strategies.

Understand relevant formation damage processes by laboratory and field testingDevelop theories and mathematical expressions for description of the fundamental mechanisms and processesPredict and simulate the consequences and scenarios of the various types of formation damage processes encountered in petroleum reservoirsDevelop methodologies and optimal strategies for formation damage control and remediation

1. Overview of Formation Damage

PART I - Characterization of Reservoir Rock for Formation Damage—Reservoir Formations, Description and Characterization, Damage Potential, and Petrographics 2. Description and Characterization of Oil and Gas Reservoirs for Formation Damage Potential 3. Petrographical Characteristics of Petroleum-Bearing Formations

PART II - Characterization of the Porous Media Processes for Formation Damage—Porosity and Permeability, Mineralogy Sensitivity, Petrophysics, Rate Processes, Rock-Fluid-Particle Interactions, and Accountability of Phases and Species 4. Alteration of the Porosity and Permeability of Geological Formations- Basic and Advanced Relationships 5. Mineral Sensitivity of Petroleum–Bearing Formations 6. Petrophysical Alterations– Fluid Disposition, Distribution, and Entrapment, Flow Functions, and Petrophysical Parameters of Geological Formations 7. Phase Equilibria, Solubility, and Precipitation in Porous Media 8. Particulate Processes in Porous Media 9. Multi-Phase and Multi-Species Transport in Porous Media

PART III - Formation Damage by Particulate Processes—Single- and Multi-Phase Fines Migration, Clay Swelling, Filtrate and Particulate Invasion, Filter Cake, Stress Sensitivity, and Sanding 10. Single-Phase Formation Damage by Fines Migration and Clay Swelling 11. Multi-Phase Formation Damage by Fines Migration 12. Cake Filtration: Mechanism, Parameters and Modeling 13. Injectivity of the Waterflooding Wells 14. Drilling-Induced Near-Wellbore Formation Damage: Drilling Mud Filtrate and Solids Invasion and Mudcake Formation 15. Reservoir Stress-Induced Formation Damage: Formation Compaction, Subsidence, Sanding Tendency, Sand Migration, Prediction and Control, and Gravel-Pack Damage

PART IV - Formation Damage by Inorganic and Organic Precipitation Processes—Chemical Reactions, Saturation Phenomena, Dissolution, Precipitation, and Deposition  16. Inorganic Scaling and Geochemical Formation Damage 17. Formation Damage by Organic Deposition

PART V - Laboratory Assessment of the Formation Damage Potential—Instrumental Techniques, Testing, Analysis, and Interpretation 18. Instrumental and Laboratory Techniques for Characterization of Reservoir Rock 19. Laboratory Evaluation of Formation Damage

PART VI - Field Diagnosis and Mitigation of Formation Damage—Measurement, Assessment, Control, and Remediation  20. Field Diagnosis and Measurement of Formation Damage 21. Determination of Formation- and Pseudo-Damage from Well Performance- Identification, Characterization, and Evaluation 22. Formation Damage Control and Remediation- Fundamentals  23. Reservoir Formation Damage Abatement- Guidelines, Methodology, Preventive Maintenance, and Remediation Treatments

PART VII - Modeling and Simulation of Formation Damage- Prediction of the Near-Wellbore Formation Damage and the Combined Effects of Fluid, Completion, and Formation Damages on Well Performance by Various Modeling and Simulation Approaches and Examples  24. Near-Wellbore Formation Damage by Inorganic and Organic Precipitates Deposition 25. Interactions and Coupling of Reservoir Fluid, Completion, and Formation Damages 26. Formation Damage Simulator Development 27. Model Assisted Analysis and Interpretation of Laboratory and Field Tests