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Formation Damage

1. The document discusses formation damage from drilling fluid invasion. It provides three examples calculating skin factor and productivity ratio with different formation and drilling parameters. 2. The first example calculates a skin factor of 2.4 for a formation damaged to a radius of 2 feet with permeability reduced to 20 mD from the original 60 mD. 3. The second example calculates the skin factor and productivity ratio for a well drilled with mud invading 2 inches deep, reducing permeability from 600 to 100 mD over that zone. 4. The third example considers four mud types for a planned well in a 500 mD formation, listing damaged zone permeability and invasion depth for each. It asks to choose the best mud

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Formation Damage

1. The document discusses formation damage from drilling fluid invasion. It provides three examples calculating skin factor and productivity ratio with different formation and drilling parameters. 2. The first example calculates a skin factor of 2.4 for a formation damaged to a radius of 2 feet with permeability reduced to 20 mD from the original 60 mD. 3. The second example calculates the skin factor and productivity ratio for a well drilled with mud invading 2 inches deep, reducing permeability from 600 to 100 mD over that zone. 4. The third example considers four mud types for a planned well in a 500 mD formation, listing damaged zone permeability and invasion depth for each. It asks to choose the best mud

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Future University in Egypt

Faculty of Engineering and Technology


Petroleum Engineering Department
PE-408 Subsurface Production Engineering

Formation Damage

1. Calculate the skin factor resulting from the invasion of the drilling fluid to a radius of 2
feet. The permeability of the skin zone is estimated at 20 md as compared with the
unaffected formation permeability of 60 md. The wellbore radius is 0.25 ft.

2. An oil well was completed on a formation having a permeability of 600 mD with wellbore
diameter equals 7" and drainage radius, re = 600 ft. The drilling mud used to drill the well
invaded 2 inches deep in formation leaving a damaged of 100 mD . Calculate the skin
factor and the productivity ratio of this well.

3. A well is planned to be drilled to target a formation of a 500 mD . the well spacing of 40


acres (re = 745 ft). The wellbore diameter equals 7 7/8". The following mud types are
available for drilling the well:

Mud Type A B C D
Permeability in Damaged Zone (mD) 100 20 300 200
Depth of invasion (ft) 1.6 0.8 2 2.3

The drilling mud used to drill the well controls the extent of permeability impairment and
the depth of damaged region extends beyond the wellbore.
Decide which mud type should be used with respect to the Skin Damage and the
Productivity ratio for each one.
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