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Sand Production Simulation in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Proceedings of International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in China, 2000
SummaryA new sand-production model is developed based on interparticle contact-force variations at the discrete micromechanical level, scaled up to the macroscopic level. Two mechanisms for sand production are expected in the field: dynamic detachment (plucking of particles) and equilibrium yield (shear dilation followed by liquefaction at ~50 ...
Liangwen Zhang, Maurice B. Dusseault
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History Model for Sand Production During Depletion

Proceedings of SPE EUROPEC/EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition, 2010
Abstract The likelihood of sand production plays an important role in the selection and application of completion solutions like open holes, screens or perforated liners. The paper will present a new sand production model. The model is also valid for wellbore collapse during underbalanced drilling.
Bernt S. Aadnoy, Eirik Kaarstad
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A hydro-mechanical sand erosion model for sand production simulation

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2018
Abstract Sand production while producing hydrocarbons from a well is a critical issue faced by the oil and gas industry. It is a complex process controlled by several factors, including the mechanical failure of materials around the wellbore and the material erosion due to fluid flow.
Xiaorong Li, Yongcun Feng, K.E. Gray
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Production and Provenance of Sand

1972
In this chapter we consider two problems. One has to do with how sand is formed and the other deals with the source or place where sand is produced. In the first, we are concerned with the processes involved in the production of sand, how sand grains come into being.
F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever   +2 more
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Heavy-Oil Production Enhancement by Encouraging Sand Production

SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, 2000
Abstract Dramatic increases in oil production rates have been achieved in many Canadian heavy oil reservoirs. These reservoirs are 30% porosity unconsolidated sandstones with oil ranging from 500 to 12,000 cP viscosity. Furthermore, many of these reservoirs have proven to be almost impossible to exploit economically with horizontal wells
Maurice B. Dusseault, Samir El-Sayed
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Sand Production in Ultra-Weak Sandstones: Is Sand Control Absolutely Necessary?

Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, 1997
Abstract This study is focusing on sand production processes in weak sandstone formations with a uniaxial compressive strength in the range of 0 – 10 MPa, with special emphasis on the ultra-weak facies where uniaxial compression tests hardly can be conducted.
J. Tronvoll, E. Papamichos, A. Skjaerstein, F. Sanfilippo   +3 more
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Sand Production in Sand Controlled Completions and Topside Wall Loss Assessment

Offshore Technology Conference, 2015
Abstract The most frequent completion method used in deepwater Gulf of Mexico is the use of gravel pack with sand screens. These are used to minimize and possibly avoid any sand production in the production system. Sand production from subsea wells tied back to a host can be a significant detriment to the integrity of the subsea ...
Ben Huebner, Wendy Redpath, Sean Riley, Nikhil Joshi   +3 more
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New Production Techniques for Alberta Oil Sands

Science, 1986
Low world oil prices represent a serious threat to expanded commercial development of the Canadian oil sands in the near term, as they do to all of the higher cost alternatives to crude oil such as oil shales and coal liquefaction. Nonetheless, research and field testing of new technology for production of oil from oil sands are being pursued by ...
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Sand Production in Oil Sand Under Heavy Oil Foamy Flow

Canadian International Petroleum Conference, 2002
Abstract Sand production and foamy oil flow are the two key factors contributing the success in cold flow production in Alberta and Saskatchewan. However, two mechanisms have been treated and studied separately as geomechanics and multiphase flow problems, respectively.
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Mechanics Of Fluid And Sand Production From Oil Sand Reservoirs

Annual Technical Meeting, 1986
Abstract This paper describes some of the theoretical aspects which have been considered in developing a coupled flow/deformation finite element package capable of modelling the nonlinear oil sand characteristics. gas evolution, and the nonlinear fluid and flow behavior under the boundary conditions imposed during ...
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