PROCEEDINGS

Production

Operations Symposium

21-23 March 1993

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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CONTENTS
Pressure Transient Data

and

Acquisition

Analysis

of

Pumping

Wells

State of the Art

11

G. Da Prat, E. Pacheco, and L. Sierra, Halliburton Reservoir Services

SPE 23981

Collar Load

Support (CLS) Tubing Running Procedure

D.F. Boutwell, Frank's

and M.D.

SPE 24326

Casing

Exxon Co.

Murrey,

Drillable Selective

29

Logging Services Inc., and D.G. Petersen, Chevron

Recovery Technology

Utilization of Chemical Enhanced Oil

Hazardous

Consultant;

USA

Injection Equipment

M.R. Barneck, Production

SPE 25153

21

Crew & Rental Tools Inc.; M.E. Gonzalez,

USA Inc.

To Remove

Waste From Alluvium

Oily

39

M.J. Pitts and Kon Wyatt, Surtek Inc., and T.C. Sale and K.R. Piontek, CH2MHILL
SPE 25162

Mathematical Model for the Scale Inhibitor

Langmuir Adsorption

P.J. Shuler, Chevron Petroleum

SPE 25214

the

51

Technology

Co.

65

Rickards,
Tjon-Joe-Pin,
Prediction of Effective Acid Penetration and Acid Volume for Matrix
H.D. Brannon, and A.R.

Treatment in

Application of

Design

BJ Services

Naturally Fractured Carbonates

77

Texas A&M U.

Hongjie Xiong,

SPE 25414

on

Polymeric Damage Removal Provides

Improved Well Productivity

Acidizing
SPE 25413

Based

Remedial Treatment for

Robert

SPE 25410

Squeeze Process

Isotherm

of Acid

Three-Dimensional

Fracturing

Hydraulic Fracturing

Simulator for

Treatments

L.N.

Morgenthaler, Shell

of

Complex Gas Reservoir

87

Co.

Development
On-Site Real-Time Analysis Allows Optimal Propped Fracture Stimulation
a

97

D.E. Johnson and C.A. Wright, Resources Engineering Systems Inc.; Alfred Stachel and
Holger Schmidt, RWE-DEA Aktiengesellschaft fdr Mineraloel & Chemie; and M.P. Cleary,
Massachusetts Inst,

SPE 25416

of Technology
of Calculated Forces

Interpretation

J.F. Lea and P.D.

SPE 25417

Wright,

Importance
Pump
J.F.

SPE 25419

Sucker Rods

113

Progressive Cavity Pumps Deliver Highest Mechanical Efficiency/Lowest

Operating Cost in Mature Permian Basin Waterflood
D. W.

SPE 25418

on

Pattillo, Amoco Production Research, and W.R. Studenmund, Stanford U.

Amoco Production Co., and R.L.

of

Compression

Ratio Calculations in

Designing Sucker-Rod

Installations

McCafferty,

123

Adair, Highland Pump Co.

131

Conoco Inc.

Conceptual Sucker Rod Design: An Unsolved Problem

143

R.E. Laine, Texas A&M U.

SPE 25420

of Artificial Neural Network to

Application

G.M. Nazi, Williams

Production Research; and Frank

SPE 25421

161

Pope,

Hydraulic Gas Pump and Gas Well Dewatering System: Two New Artificial
Lift

Systems

for Oil and Gas Wells

171

Recovery

Co.

Transient Wellbore Pressure and Flow Rates in

Different

Commingled System

Layer Pressures

P.C. Shah andJ.B.

SPE 25425

of

151

Tulsa; J.F. Lea, Amoco

Cross Timbers Operating Co.

Mahmood Amani, Enhanced Gas

SPE 25423

Ashenayi,
Kemp, U. of Tulsa

U.

Optimizing High-Volume Sucker Rod Lift

CD.

SPE 25422

Pump Card Diagnosis

Telecommunications; Kaveh

Formation

With
179

Spath, Schlumberger

Permeability

Determination

Using Impulse-Fracture Injection

Hongren Gu, J.L. Elbe!., and K.G. Nolte, Dowell Schlumberger; A.H-D. Cheng,
U. of Delaware; and Younane Abousleiman, U. of Oklahoma
4

189

SPE 25426

Analysis of Pressure and Pressure

Storage

Derivatives Without

Type-Curve Matching:

ISkin and Wellbore

203

Djebbar Tiab, U. of Oklahoma

SPE 25427

Vertical

SPE 25429

Fang Luo, NM Inst, of Mining & Technology, and Stefan Miska, U. of Tulsa
Characterization and Prediction of Formation Damage

SPE 25430

Xinghui Liu and Faruk Civan, U. of Oklahoma

Deformation Effects on Formation Damage

Permeability

Single-Well Test:

Determination From

Phase IConstant Flow Rate Test

in Two-Phase Flow

and

231

Systems

25431

During Drilling

Completion Operations

249

S.G. Thallak, Jon Holder, and K.E.

SPE

217

U.

Gray,

of

Texas

Technique Improves Openhole Gravel Pack

259

B.S. Wilton and R.S. Swain, ARCO Oil & Gas Co.; J.D.
and Dee

SPE 25432

Harkey, Pall

Technology

Measurement of Critical Rate: A Novel

Laboratory
Fines

Well

Tuttle, Enterprise Drilling Fluids;

Filtration Services Co.

Approach

for

Quantifying

Migration Problems

271

R.M. Miranda and D.R.

SPE 25434

Underdown, ARCO E&P Technology

Numerical Evaluation of Gravel Pack Damage

287

Nobuo Morita, Conoco Inc.

SPE 25436

Cementing Temperature
and

Computer

Predictions Based

on

Both Downhole Measurements

History

Predictions: A Case

299

R.S. Honore Jr., Mobil E&P Services Inc.; B.A. Tarr, Mobil E&P Technical Center;

J.A. Howard, Enertech

SPE 25437

Biopolymers

Computing Corp.; andN.K. Lang, Halliburton Services

Free Water and

The Western Co.

K.K.

SPE 25440

as

Settling Control Agent

307

North America

of
Ganguli,
Reverse Circulation of Cement

on

Primary Jobs Increases Cement Column

Height Across Weak Formations

J.E.

SPE 25442

SPE 25443

315

D.Q, Nix, and G.A. Boe, Halliburton Services

Griffith,

Characterization of Surfactant-Enhanced Cement Fluid-Loss Additives

D.T. Mueller and W.S.

Bray,

Rate-Depth Tubing

Performance Curves

321

BJ Services

335

H. W. Winkler, Consultant, and P. T. Eads, Cameo Products & Services

SPE 25444

Gas-Lift Valve Performance

K.L. Decker, Otis

SPE 25445

347

Testing

Engineering Corp.

Efficiency of Electrical Submersible Pumps Equipped With

Variable Frequency Drives: A Field Study
On the

357

M.M. Patterson, Consultant

SPE 25446

Enhancing

Performance of Submersibles

Operating

in

365

Miscible Flood Conditions

M.O. Durham, THEWAY

SPE 25447

Corp./U. of Tulsa, and Gerald Miller, Imperial

Simplified Computer-Aided Analysis of Electrical Current in Motors Used

Beam Pumping Systems
J.N. McCoy, Echometer Co.; A.L. Podio, U. of Texas; J.W. Jennings,
S.A. Holditch & Assocs. Inc.; and Jerry West, M-W Instruments

SPE 25448

Oil-Resources Div.

Field

Study

of Efficiencies Between

Electric Submersible

Consultant; K.S.

for

375
Capps,

Progressing Cavity, Reciprocating, and

389

Pump

K.J. Saveth, Consultant

SPE 25449

Waterflooding

of

Naturally Fractured Reservoirs:

An Efficient Simulation
Faruk Civan, U.

SPE 25452

395

Approach

of Oklahoma

Upgrading of Heavy Oils and Bitumen by Propane Deasphalting:

The Vapex Process
In-Situ

/./. Mokrys and R.M. Butler, U.

of Calgary
5

409

SPE 25453

The Effects of
of

Layer Permeability Contrast and Crossflow on the Effectiveness

Polymer Floods and Waterfloods

Polymer

H.W. Gao and T.E.

SPE 25454

425

Gel Treatments in

Burchfield,

Effects of pH and Shear

NIPER

on

the Gelation of

441

Cr(III)-Xanthan System

D.M. Dolan, Texas Petrochemicals; J.L. Thiele, 3M Austin Center; and G.P. Willhite,
U.

SPE 25455

of Kansas

An Efficient

Semianalytic Reservoir Model for Complex Reservoirs

453

B.D. PoeJr., E.G. Dube, and S.A. Holditch, Texas A&M U.

SPE 25456

A New Model for

of

SPE 25458

Laminar, Transitional, and Turbulent Flow

469

Drilling Muds

T.D. Reed, Conoco Inc., and A.A. Pilehvari, U. of Tulsa

Generalized Inflow Performance Relationships for Three-Phase Flow

483

Wiggins, U. of Oklahoma
Production Optimization in the Antrim Shale
M.L.

SPE 25461

S.R. Reeves, Advanced Resources Intl.

Inc.;

495

D.G. Hill, Gas Research Inst.;

and D. O. Cox, Advanced Resources Intl. Inc.

SPE 25462

Productivity Utilizing

Well

Improved

A.D. Pierce and A.C.

McNally, BJ Services,
Waggoner-Baldridge Operating Co. Inc.

SPE 25463

and R.L.

Armstrong,

High-Temperature, Borate-Crosslinked Fracturing

A Comparison of Delay Methodology
B.R.

SPE 25464

Ainley, K.H. Nimerick,

Refracturing:

and R.J.

Fluids:
517

Card, Dowell Schlumberger

521

Observations and Theories

J.L. Elbel and M. G.

Mack, Dowell

Schlumberger

Production Performance of

SPE 25466

Determination of Hydraulic Fracture Direction, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

D.P. Yale, M.K. Strubhar, and A.W. El Rabaa, Mobil R&D Corp.

SPE 25467

An

Liao and W.J.

Hydraulically

Lee, Texas A&M

533

Fractured Gas Wells

SPE 25465

Yizhu

507

Foamed Borate-Crosslinked Fluid

U.
.

543

Integrated Laboratory and Field Study To Optimize the Hydraulic Fracturing

555
System in a High-Permeability Reservoir

Fluid

R. G. Keck and B. W. Hainey, ARCO E&P

ARCO Alaska Inc.
SPE 25468

R.A. Clausen,

Encapsulated Breakers in the Red Fork Formation of the Anadarko Basin:

A Case
G.A,

SPE 25470

Technology Co., and

567

History

Waters and D.D. DeLeon, Dowell

Reproducibility

of Flow

Schlumberger

Computer-Generated

Gas Volumes

Using Averaged
575

Flow Parameters
R.M. Haefele,

SPE 25472

Advances in Flotation Unit

A.L.

SPE 25474

SPE 25477

581

Separators

591

Simple Algorithm for Analyzing Gas Pipeline Networks

601

Viles, Paragon Engineering

Shifeng
Production

Services Inc.

Adewumi, Pennsylvania

State U.

Potential

Analysis and Reservoir Simulation Identify

in Previously Produced Basins

F.E.

and B.M. Robinson, S.A. Holditch & Assocs. Inc.

Syfan

Naturally
Model for

Infill

Drilling

Single-Porosity? The Importance of Reservoir Flow

Performance Assessment of Stimulated Tight Gas Wells

Fractured

E.S. Carlson, U.

SPE 25478

for Produced Water Treatment

Re-Entrainment in Horizontal

Tian and M.A.

SPE 25476

Design

Casaday, Serck Baker Inc.

Predicting Liquid
J. C.

SPE 25475

Amoco Production Co.

607

or

621

of Alabama, and G.V. Latham, U.S. DOE-METC

Differentiating Between Formation Compressibility and Water Influx

Effects in

Abnormal Pressured Gas Reservoirs

629

S, W, Poston, Her Yuan Chen, and M.J. Akhtar, Texas A&M U.

SPE 25480

639

A New Model for Production Decline

Fernando Rodriguez, UNAM/Pemex, and Heber
6

Cinco-Ley, UNAM

SPE 25481

Inflow Performance

Relationships With Inertial Effects in the Reservoir

SPE 25482

Rodolfo Camacho-Velazquez, Pemex/UNAM, and Roberto Padilla-Sixto and

Mario Vasquez-Cruz, Mexican Petroleum Inst.
Simulation of Skin Effects and Liquid Cleanup in

649

665

Hydraulically Fractured Wells

G.M.

SPE 25483

Iqbal,

ZADCO

and Faruk

(PDR),

Civan,

U.

of Oklahoma
679

Controlling Asphaltene Deposition in Oil Wells

D.C. Thomas and H.L. Becker, Welchem Inc., and R.A. Del Real Soria, Petroleos Mexicanos

SPE 25484

Insights

Into Good Hot

689

Oilling Practices

A.J.

SPE 25485

Mansure, Sandia Natl. Laboratories, and K.M. Barker, Petrolite

The Chemistry, Prediction, and Treatment of Scale Containing

Occurring Radioactive

Materials

(NORM) in

Antrim Gas

Naturally
Fields, Michigan

....

695

I.E. Oddo and Amal Al-Borno, Water Research Inst. Inc.; Isais Ortiz and Robin Anthony,
United Exploration Development Co.; D.H. Pope, Bioindustrial Technologies Inc.; D.G. Hill,
D.G.

James

Linz, and

D.M. Becker, Ward Lake

Frank, Gas Research Inst.;

Energy;

and

M.T. Tomson, Rice U.

SPE 25486

Basic
J.L.

SPE 25487

to the

Approach

for Production

Application

of Field Gas

Compressors
705

Engineers

Shafer, J-W Operating Co.

Modeling

Natural Gas Markets:

Answering

the "What If s"

719

D.D. Davis, J.M. Harris, and P.S. Bohlen, Halliburton Energy Services Group

SPE 25488

Enzymatic Breaker System for Nondamaging Removal of

Cellulose-Based Blocking Gels

729

A.R. Rickards, R.M. Tjon-Joe-Pin, and J.L. Boles, BJ Services

SPE 25489

Interpretation

in Front of

Polymer Cakes
M.J.
SPE 25490

Resin-Coated

741

Long Cores

H. U.

and M.J. Economides,

Staubmann,
Method for Measuring

Mayerhofer,

Improved

An

Early- and Late-Time Filtration Phenomena of Crosslinked

of

Fracturing

Mining

U. Leoben

Gel Break With

753

Proppant

P. C. Harris, Halliburton Services

SPE 25491

Toughness Values for Hydraulic Fracture:

and Fluid Rheology

Measurements of Effective Fracture

Dependence

on

Pressure

761

Jon Holder, U. of Texas; Nobuo Morita, Conoco Inc.; A.J. Kenrick, Chevron USA Inc.; and
Sitharam Thallak and K.E. Gray, U. of Texas

SPE 25492

Analysis of Observed Friction Pressures Recorded

While

Fracturing in Highly
771

Deviated Wellbores
D.M. Bilden, J.W.

SPE 25493

Spearman,

Comprehensive

and H.G. Hudson, BJ Services

Tongchun Yi, Imperial College, and J.M. Peden,

SPE 25494

Sand

Approaches

H.H. Abass, J.M. Wilson, J.J.

Venditto,

and R.E.

Chambers, BP

Exploration (Alaska)

797

Voss, Halliburton Services

809

Laying Sand Plugs With Coiled Tubing

M.J.

SPE 25497

783

Heriot-Watt U.

Stimulating Weak Formations Using New Hydraulic Fracturing and

Control

SPE 25496

Hydraulic Fracturing

Model of Fluid Loss in

Inc.

A New Method for the Relief of Annular

819

Heat-Up Pressures

C.P. Leach, Conoco Inc., and A.J. Adams, Enertech Engineering & Research Co.
SPE 25499

827

Fishing With Coiled Tubing

S.H, Fowler

Jr., Halliburton Manufacturing

Hilts, Otis Engineering Corp.;

& Services Ltd.; and C.W. Pleasants, Otis Engineering
R.L.

SPE 25500

Forces

on Curved

Tubulars Due

to Fluid

Mitchell, Enertech Engineering & Research

Inflow Performance of a Horizontal Well
R.F.

SPE 25501

Genliang
SPE 25503

Study

Guo and R.D. Evans, U.

of Helical

of

Corp.
843

Flow
Co.

Intersecting Natural

Fractures

851

Oklahoma

Buckling of Pipes in Horizontal Wells

Jiang Wu and H. C. Juvkam-Wold, Texas A&M U.

7

867

SPE 25504
SPE 25505

Collapse in

Horizontal Wellbore
See

and J-C.

an

U.

Anisotropic Formation

877

Oklahoma

Hong Ong
Roegiers,
of
Generalized Performance of Hydraulic Fractures With

Complex Intersecting

Horizontal Wells

891
Mining U. Leoben, and O.K. Jensen,

F.X. Deimbacher and M.J. Economides,

Maersk Olie & Gas

SPE 25507

L. G.

SPE 25508

for Horizontal Wells

Type-Curve Matching

Automatic

Thompson,

U.

of

903

Temeng, Mobil E&P Services Inc.

Tulsa, and K. 0.

Analyzing Old Electric Logs in Shaly Sand Formations

919

J.W. Walsh and S.L. Brown, The Logic Group, and G.B. Asquith, Texas Tech U.
SPE 25509

Integrating

Wireline Data With Three-Dimensional

Simulators in the
Proven

Fracture

927

Services Inc., and B.R.

R.E. Barba Jr., Integrated Energy

SPE 25510

Hydraulic

Spraberry Trend
Meyer, Meyer & Assocs.

Logging Technology for High Bottomhole Temperatures

M.E. Gonzalez, Manco Oil & Gas

Technologies

941

Inc.; J.R. Archuleta,

Los Alamos Natl. Laboratory, and R.E. Polly, Royal Wireline Inc.

SPE 25511

Obtaining Injection Profiles and Fracture Apertures

Using Radioactive Tracers
A New Method for
/. C. Reis, U.

SPE 25512

Through-Tubing Perforating
J.E.

SPE 25513

of

Lopez-de-Cardenas,

Reservoir

947

Texas

With

Pivoting Shaped Charges

955

J.E. Brooks, and Max Jensen, Schlumberger Well Services

Estimation From

Permeability

Time-Lapse Log

Data

963

C. Y. Yao and S.A. Holditch, Texas A&M U.

SPE 25514

A New Correlation
Phase

Between Archie's Parameters and Continuous

Developed

Saturation Interval

Change

977

Servet Unalmiser and J.A. Bova, Saudi Aramco

SPE
No

Paper Evaluation Form

manuscript

SPE 25439

was

991

received for the

following:

Annular Pressure Predictions

Throughout Foam Cement Operations

H. Garcia Jr., Unicamp/Petrobrds; E.E. Maidla, Unicamp; and D. Onan, Halliburton Services

SPE 25450

Technique

for

Predicting Waterflood Performance From Field Data

J.B. Rollins and R.F. Strickland,

SPE 25451

& Assocs. Inc.

Prediction of Water Influx Into Oil Reservoirs Under Natural Waterdrive

D.T. Numbere, U.

SPE 25457

Cawley, Gillespie

of Missouri

Analytical Solution

to

Darcy

and

Non-Darcy

Flow

Toward Perforated

Completions
A.M. Saleh and G. Stewart, Heriot-Watt U.

SPE 25473

Modeling of Slug Growth in Horizontal and Inclined Pipelines: Comparison

With Data
J. Moe, Flowtech

SPE 25479

Development

and

Application

Unfractured Wells in

of

Analytical Solutions

for Fractured and

Bounded Circular Reservoir: Constant Flow Rate Case

T.A.

SPE 25498

Blasingame, Texas A&M U.

Acid Inhibition for Coiled Tubing:
C.G. Blount, G.D.

Laboratory Screening

and Field Verification

Herring, and W.W. Patterson, ARCO Alaska Inc., and M.L. Walker,

Halliburton Services

SPE 25502

The Influence of Presure

Drop Along

the Wellbore

on

Horizontal Well

Productivity
E.

Ozkan, C. Sarica, and M. Haciislamoglu, Istanbul Technical U., and

R.

Raghavan, Phillips Petroleum Co.

8