Gravel and fracture packing using fibers
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsKonstantin Viktorovich Vidma, Mohan K. R. Panga, Balkrishna Gadiyar, Alexander Alexandrovich Burukhin, Ivan Sergeyevich Glaznev, Raymond J. Tibbles, Michael J. Fuller
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Abstract
A technique includes completing a well, including installing a tubing string that includes a screen in the well and installing a fiber-based material outside of the screen. The technique further includes using the well as an injection well, including communicating a fluid into the tubing string to cause an injection flow to be communicated in a fluid flow path from an interior of the tubing string, through the screen and into a formation.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- completing a well, the completing comprising installing a tubing string comprising a screen in the well and installing a fiber-based material outside of the screen;
- and
- preparing the well for use as an injection well in which a fluid is communicated into the tubing string to cause an injection flow to be communicated in a fluid flow path from an interior of the tubing string, through the screen and into a formation.
A method usable with a well, comprising:
- preventing proppant migration into a formation during an injection flow in the well, the preventing comprising reinforcing tips of fractures of the well to retain the proppant.
An apparatus comprising:
- a tubing string comprising a screen;
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- a fiber-based material disposed outside the screen to prevent proppant migration during an injection flow from a flow path from an interior of the tubing string, through the screen and into a formation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.