Reversible drilling-fluid emulsions for improved well performance

Oilfield Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 62-68

  Ali, Syed ^a   Bowman, Mike ^b   Luyster, Mark R ^c   Patel, Arvind ^c   Svoboda, Charles ^c   McCarty, R Andrew ^b   Pearl, Bob ^a  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b M I SWACO ^*  (Angola)

^c M I SWACO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR MATERIALS; OIL-BASE MUD (OBM); OIL-WET MATERIALS; WATER-BASE MUD (WBM);

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; EMULSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPLORATORY BOREHOLES; FRACTURING FLUIDS; OIL WELL COMPLETION; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION;

WELL DRILLING;

EID: 10044223562     PISSN: 09231730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (9)

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4. Lipophilic pertains to an attraction for oil by a surface of a material or a molecule. This term is applied to the oil-wetting behavior of treatment chemicals for oil-base muds. In contrast, hydrophilic means having a strong affinity for water.
5. Berea sandstone is commonly used in the laboratory for injection and return permeability tests. Although natural, it displays heterogeneous pore structure and mineralogy with minimal anisotropy.
6. A 40/60 prepacked screen is composed of 40/60 US sieve size sand preinstalled in a screen assembly.
7. Aloxite disks are synthetic cores composed of aluminum oxide.
8. For more on completion techniques: Acock A, ORourke T, Shirmboh D, Alexander J, Andersen G, Kaneko T, Venkitaraman A, López-de- Cérdenas J, Nishi M, Numasawa M, Yoshioka K, Roy A, Wilson A and Twynam A: "Practical Approaches to Sand Management," Oilfield Review 16, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 10-27.
9. Beta phase refers to the return gravel placement wave in a high-rate water pack.