NEW WELLS

Optimizing Primary Production from New Wells

“Formation damage, once formed, is never completely removable.”
                                                  Buck Houchin, et.al.  SPE 17166

Advances in technology now provide affordable diagnostic tools for early detection of formation damage. This enables a low-cost proactive method to prevent further damage or restore the well to initial production levels. Only by treating damage at an early stage can you delay the inherent mechanism that reverses wettability, increases water production, accelerates fines migration and plugs off flow with scale and wax deposits. Early treatment means improving ultimate recovery by 20% to 50% while reducing the total well life costs.