Advances in perforation damage, cleanup and inflow performance: Improvements in laboratory testing are helping to better determine perforation damage

摘要

Considering the important role that perforation laboratory testing can play in establishing field completion strategies, and thus ultimately well performance, efforts are underway to further strengthen the link between laboratory results and field well performance predictions. Some of these efforts focus on integrating advanced diagnostic and computational tools (namely computed tomography [CT], and pore-scale flow simulation) into the perforation testing workflow. This integration enables local variations in permeability and porosity to be identified and quantified, thus improving the interpretation of perforation laboratory results, and ultimately the translation of these results to the downhole environment.