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Collaborative, Interactive and Relevant Training for the Energy Industry
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COURSE INFORMATION
Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments
Type:
Training CourseLength:
3 Days
CEU:
2.4
PDH:
24Fee:
$2195 CADUpcoming Sessions
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Course Description
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The purpose of this 3-day Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments course is to provide attendees with adequate knowledge in formation damage. The course will take participants through the types and mechanics of formation damage, and their preventions and treatments.
The economics of a project's development may be jeopardized by failure to obtain the production target. Economics relies on a limited number of highly productive wells.
Formation damage is an impairment of reservoir permeability around the well bore, leading to low or no well production or injection. There are two types of Formation Damage namely: Pore/pore throat size physical reduction and relative permeability reduction. Formation damage is often quantified by “Skin” factor. Skin is strictly a measure of an excess pressure in the producing formation as fluids flow into a well. This excess pressure drop can occur from one or several of a wide variety of causes such as drilling mud, cement and completion fluid filtrate invasion, solids invasion, perforating damage, fines migration, formation compaction, swelling clays, asphaltene/paraffin deposition, scale precipitation, emulsions, reservoir compaction, relative permeability effects, effects of stimulation treatments, etc. Therefore, it is evident that formation damage problems are caused by the nature of our activities during the cause of interactions with our wells.
The critical factor from a well completion and intervention standpoint is to limit, where possible, the creation of damage (especially severe plugging in the near wellbore area). This means, to avoid plugging of the perforations in a cased hole completion and to avoid plugging of the formation face in an open-hole completion. This course will educate participants on how to avoid plugging and how to restore wells with plugging problems in the perforations or formation face.
Beyond taking steps to eliminate severe permeability reduction in the near wellbore area, the next step is to obtain the best communication of the wellbore with the virgin formation. Therefore, fluids selection is critical as damage to the reservoir can result in impaired production and substantial loss of revenue to the Operator. It has resulted in increased reliance on formation damage testing to select the appropriate fluid and/or clean-up technique. This course has been designed to cover the laboratory techniques involved in formation damage testing and different well stimulation techniques to achieve the best reservoir-wellbore communications.
Our discussions will be extended to new stimulation techniques such as multi-stage fracturing with swelling packers and stimulation sleeves.
Also, depending on the interest of the participants we may cover specials topics such as Water / Gas shut-off and scale problems in the oil and gas industry.
Prerequisite: Drilling, completion and production engineering and operation background at any level and no prior training in formation damage is needed
A complete set of course materials and lunch is included in the Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments course.
The economics of a project's development may be jeopardized by failure to obtain the production target. Economics relies on a limited number of highly productive wells.
Formation damage is an impairment of reservoir permeability around the well bore, leading to low or no well production or injection. There are two types of Formation Damage namely: Pore/pore throat size physical reduction and relative permeability reduction. Formation damage is often quantified by “Skin” factor. Skin is strictly a measure of an excess pressure in the producing formation as fluids flow into a well. This excess pressure drop can occur from one or several of a wide variety of causes such as drilling mud, cement and completion fluid filtrate invasion, solids invasion, perforating damage, fines migration, formation compaction, swelling clays, asphaltene/paraffin deposition, scale precipitation, emulsions, reservoir compaction, relative permeability effects, effects of stimulation treatments, etc. Therefore, it is evident that formation damage problems are caused by the nature of our activities during the cause of interactions with our wells.
The critical factor from a well completion and intervention standpoint is to limit, where possible, the creation of damage (especially severe plugging in the near wellbore area). This means, to avoid plugging of the perforations in a cased hole completion and to avoid plugging of the formation face in an open-hole completion. This course will educate participants on how to avoid plugging and how to restore wells with plugging problems in the perforations or formation face.
Beyond taking steps to eliminate severe permeability reduction in the near wellbore area, the next step is to obtain the best communication of the wellbore with the virgin formation. Therefore, fluids selection is critical as damage to the reservoir can result in impaired production and substantial loss of revenue to the Operator. It has resulted in increased reliance on formation damage testing to select the appropriate fluid and/or clean-up technique. This course has been designed to cover the laboratory techniques involved in formation damage testing and different well stimulation techniques to achieve the best reservoir-wellbore communications.
Our discussions will be extended to new stimulation techniques such as multi-stage fracturing with swelling packers and stimulation sleeves.
Also, depending on the interest of the participants we may cover specials topics such as Water / Gas shut-off and scale problems in the oil and gas industry.
Prerequisite: Drilling, completion and production engineering and operation background at any level and no prior training in formation damage is needed
A complete set of course materials and lunch is included in the Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments course.
Who Should Attend
The Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments course is designed for:
- Completion Engineer / Superintendent
- Completions Team Lead / Manager
- Well Intervention Engineer / Site leader / Site Manager
- Petroleum Engineer
- Reservoir Engineer
- Drilling Engineer/Superintendent / Site Manager
- Cross-Discipline Training
- Oil and Gas Project Evaluator
- Oil and Gas industry Drilling/Completion/Intervention Service providers
Course Outline 
The advantages of attending the Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments course include:
- Understanding the effect of formation damage on revenue to the operator
- Understanding the mechanism of formation damage
- Understanding formation lab tests and interpretation
- Understanding the impact of skin on productivity for both vertical and horizontal wells
- How to select the best fluid (less damaging) at every phase of the well development: drilling and completion, cementing, perforating, stimulation, gravel packing, workover, production and injection operations
- How to diagnose formation damage problems
- How to apply the best treatment to a sandstone and carbonate reservoir
- How to stimulate tight reservoir with low porosity and low permeability.
- How to stimulate high permeability reservoir.
Instructor
Mike Etuhoko, M.Sc., P. Eng., PMP
Mike has over 20 years of engineering, operations and management experience in Drilling,
Completion and Sand Control, Workover and Well Services. Mike presently consults worldwide in the area of Sand Control and Well Completion, Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments, Workover and Well services. He has handled challenging projects for BG, Shell, Total, KNOC, Chevron, ENI and Lukeoil in North America, Europe, Africa, Central and Far East Asia. He has also trained and mentored junior to senior level engineers.
Mike is the founder of Protekz Inc., Calgary, Canada.
Mike is a Professional Engineer registered in the province of Alberta, Canada. He is also a certified Project Management Professional. An active SPE member, Mike has served as the Secretary of Congo SPE section between 2006 and 2007.
Mike is Shell Round 2-Completion and Well Intervention certified from the Shell Open University, Rijswijk Netherlands. He holds a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering and Project Management from the Institute Francais du Petrole in France, and has his first degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Read More about Mike Etuhoko, M.Sc., P. Eng., PMP
Completion and Sand Control, Workover and Well Services. Mike presently consults worldwide in the area of Sand Control and Well Completion, Formation Damage Prevention and Treatments, Workover and Well services. He has handled challenging projects for BG, Shell, Total, KNOC, Chevron, ENI and Lukeoil in North America, Europe, Africa, Central and Far East Asia. He has also trained and mentored junior to senior level engineers.
Mike is the founder of Protekz Inc., Calgary, Canada.
Mike is a Professional Engineer registered in the province of Alberta, Canada. He is also a certified Project Management Professional. An active SPE member, Mike has served as the Secretary of Congo SPE section between 2006 and 2007.
Mike is Shell Round 2-Completion and Well Intervention certified from the Shell Open University, Rijswijk Netherlands. He holds a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering and Project Management from the Institute Francais du Petrole in France, and has his first degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Read More about Mike Etuhoko, M.Sc., P. Eng., PMP
Reviews
"Mike provided many good "real-life" examples and in class exercises to illustrate concepts. Very Helpful!
I would recommend this course and this instructor! I appreciate that the instructor "tailored" the course content to the participants based on their interests."
- Technical Account Executive
"Instructor was quite helpful regarding solving field production problems."
- Production Engineer
"Mike was very positive and encouraged discussion."
- Anon.
"Instructor has great experience and knowledge."
- Production EIT
"Mike did a great job. Kept the course interesting and had an interesting perspective and experience with the subject."
- Exploitation Engineer
"Great Course! It was exactly what I was expecting and I feel that I will be able to take several points back to implement. Thank you for this experience and I will definitely be back for more training through Progress Seminars."
- Technical Sales Engineer
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