Parametric Study of Sand-Production Prediction: Analytical Approach Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Summary An unconventional perforation-tunnel stability analysis is conducted in this work by separating the role of two independent factors on sand production: well pressure and local pressure gradient around a cavity. Such a separation clarifies most of the phenomena observed during sand production in oil fields. Simple analytical solutions for poroelastoplastic materials allowed repeated calculations for a parameter sensitivity study. The results obtained should be used qualitatively because of some degree of simplification.

published proceedings

  • SPE Production Engineering

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Morita, N., Whitfill, D. L., Fedde, O. P., & Lovik, T. H.

citation count

  • 66

complete list of authors

  • Morita, N||Whitfill, DL||Fedde, OP||Lovik, TH

publication date

  • February 1989