| Issue 32, June 2010 |
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| KILLING AND WASHING FLUIDS PRESERVING RESERVOIR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FORMATION |
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Killing wells is the most frequent operation with the use of chemical reagents.
The application of quality killing fluids (KF), inhibited for stabilizing clay,
preventing corrosion, emergence of infusible salts and enduring inverted emulsions,
allows preserving reservoir characteristics of the formation. Complexes of killing
fluids were developed in Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. It allows
not only preserving the reservoir characteristics of the formation, but also to
increase the safety of well workover and remediation jobs and decrease the costs
of the killing fluids. All killing fluids can be divided into two categories:
solutions with absorption control and solutions with productivity control. Solutions
with absorption control allow limiting filtration of salt killing fluids in the
formation and keep the well productivity after workover on the same level. Solutions
with productivity control is a standard salt killing fluid containing a certain
amount of chemical additives providing for minimal negative impact of the killing
fluid on further exploitation of the well. Usually such solutions cost as much
as other salt fluids, while they bring down the risks of endangering well productivity
and increasing the rate of water in the product. full text of the article | all articles of this issue
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