Steam injection well gravel pack material of sintered bauxite
AssigneeChevron Research Company
InventorsThomas D. Elson, Ralph S. Millhone
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Abstract
A packing material useful in a gravel pack for open or cased wells or in a prepack for use in steam or hot fluid injection and production wells. The packing material is a material which is insoluble in high temperature caustic fluids and subsurface formation fluids. Sintered bauxite is a claimed material.
Claims1
A method for reducing particulate material pack dissolution in subsurface wellbore environment comprising installing a pack material consisting essentially of sintered bauxite without a binder material in the subsurface wellbore as said pack particulate material and passing hot well fluids including steam into or out of said subsurface through said sintered bauxite.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.