Gravel packing method

Wells – Processes – Graveling or filter forming

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C166S300000, C507S244000, C507S240000

Reexamination Certificate

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06883608

ABSTRACT:
A method is disclosed for using aqueous VES-based gravel carrier fluids in gravel packing operations using screens and shunt tubes that have been run into a well completed with an oil-based mud. With this method, the previously necessary but undesirable steps of first running in a perforated liner and then displacing the oil-based mud with an aqueous-based fluid in the region to be gravel packed are both avoided while the advantages of gravel packing with an aqueous-based fluid are retained.

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SPE 38640—Gravel Packing Horizontal Wellbores with Leak-Off Using ShuntsBy L.G.Jones, R.J. Tibbles, L. Myers, David Bryant, Jim Hardin and Gary Hurst.

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