Cased Hole Gravel Packs, either circulating packs below frac or high-rate water packs above frac, are widely used across the industry as a technique for preventing sand production. However, if not properly designed, they may contribute to high skin that negatively impacts well productivity. Therefore, effective cased hole gravel pack design is crucial for ensuring optimal well performance and longevity.

In this webinar, we discuss its theory, challenges, and how to improve your designs!

Until recently, the only way to successfully gravel pack challenging wells in narrow pressure operating windows required adjusting the placement pump rate, fluids or down hole hardware. As margins become smaller, even these changes become limiting and a new approach is required. With the advent of Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD), a new method for gravel packing these wells has become available – Managed Pressure Gravel Packing (or MPGP).

In this webinar, we discuss this new method and demonstrate practical examples using PackPro, the industry-standard sand control software, which now incorporates the ability to design and evaluate MPGP treatments.

Join us to explore the key factors influencing the success of sand control treatments, the power of downhole gauge analysis in gathering valuable data, and how this data can be utilized for continuous improvement.

Discover different gauge types, theoretical insights, optimal positioning, and added value obtained from analysis. Presented by industry experts, this interactive session will provide invaluable knowledge and discussions.

Many oil and gas wells face late life sand production challenges. Mechanical and chemical remedial sand control techniques for such wells have been available for several years, yet still not widely practised today. Join us to discuss these techniques, their limitations and why, although apparently simple, they are often so challenging.

The wait is over! We’re thrilled to launch PackPro 6.0, the brand new version of our software solution for sand control simulation, evaluation and optimization.

Discover all the latest features, including:

-New User Interface

-Modularization

-Chart Customization

-Wellbore Visualization

-And many others!

The use of a single stage solids screening device to enable fluid production from wells was the original sand control technique. Whilst the fundamentals remain unchanged, the filtration devices used for such completions, and our understanding of them, have changed significantly.

In this webinar, we review the development of stand-alone-screen completions, the challenges, the limitations, and the evolution of the equipment and understanding which is essential for their successful application.

In this webinar, we discuss the use of diverter subs with shunt tubes during gravel packing to reduce the pressure seen in the open hole and prevent fracturing.

After a brief review of shunted gravel packing, we discuss what a diverter sub is and how it affects packing. We then demonstrate how modelling can be applied to determine the optimum number and placement of the diverter subs in the completion.

We’re excited to introduce our new data handling software that makes it easy to manage numerical data in any application!

It facilitates the importing, modification, merging, plotting and exporting of datasets with the following key features:

-Import data from any file and in any open format

-Seamlessly handle large data sets

-Modify data using offsets, multipliers, averaging and formulas

-Visually align multiple datasets using “click and drag” and merge into a single dataset

-Segment data into multiple ranges for easier analysis

-Create fully customizable charts with markers and annotations

-Export data numerically or as a report

-Supports data from any industry

High Rate Water Pack (HRWP) treatments are performed around the world in cased hole wells to combine the benefits of gravel packing with some of those of fracturing. Despite their popularity as a sand control technique, there has never been a software model developed for their application in soft rock formations, so their design and execution has been largely driven by a trial and error approach.

This webinar covers the design considerations of HRWP treatments and introduces the first software model combining both wellbore packing and creation of small fractures in soft rock formations. We’ll look at how this can be used in the planning and evaluation of HRWP treatments to reduce risk, maximize packing and continuously improve operations.

Operators are increasingly seeking the combined benefits of gravel packing for sand control and ICD/AICD technology for improved recovery. This results in a challenging completion design with conflicting requirements for a low pressure drop through the screens during gravel packing to facilitate effective placement, and a higher pressure drop during production to facilitate a uniform inflow profile along the interval.

This webinar will cover the challenges associated with these completions and how the industry’s first ICD/AICD gravel pack model can be used to better understand and optimize the various configurations, helping to expand the successful application of these completions.