It is well recognized that near-wellbore formation damage can dramatically reduce well productivities, especially for open hole completed horizontal wells. The economic impact of poor productivity of these wells has pushed toward significant efforts in recent years to study laboratory testing techniques and numerical modeling methods for predicting and controlling drilling-induced formation damage. This paper presents an integrated approach, combining a near-wellbore modeling with laboratory experiments for data acquisition as input for the model, to evaluate the performance of oil and gas wells after drilling-induced formation damage.
Issue Section:
Research Papers
Topics:
Damage,
Drilling,
Modeling,
Flow (Dynamics),
Fluids,
Computer simulation,
Permeability,
Pressure,
Reservoirs
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