TY - JOUR
T1 - Fracturing, frac packing, and formation failure control
T2 - can screenless completions prevent sand production?
AU - Morita, Nobuo
AU - Burton, R. C.
AU - Davis, Eric
PY - 1998/9
Y1 - 1998/9
N2 - Some successful results have been reported for screenless frac-packing methods; however, no scientific guidelines were given regarding the conditions under which a screen can be eliminated from a well. In this paper, we report field data from sand-producing wells and review the onset and the rate of sand production for those wells with and without hydraulic fractures. From these field observations and numerical modeling analysis, we give guidelines for when a screen must be run and when a screen can be eliminated.
AB - Some successful results have been reported for screenless frac-packing methods; however, no scientific guidelines were given regarding the conditions under which a screen can be eliminated from a well. In this paper, we report field data from sand-producing wells and review the onset and the rate of sand production for those wells with and without hydraulic fractures. From these field observations and numerical modeling analysis, we give guidelines for when a screen must be run and when a screen can be eliminated.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032171764
SN - 1064-6671
VL - 13
SP - 157
EP - 162
JO - SPE Drilling and Completion
JF - SPE Drilling and Completion
IS - 3
ER -