Sand control

G. O. Suman, Jr., Sand Control Handbook, Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, 1975. 

Injecting epoxy, furan, or furan-formaldehyde resins into poorly consolidated formations to consolidate them was a common sand control practice for thin highly productive formations (44-46). Organic solvents (46) and silane coupling agents (47) are used to promote adhesion of the resin to the rock surface. Excess resin is flushed deeper into the formation to minimize resin hardening in the flow channels since this would reduce formation permeability. 

Another method of sand control is use of a silicon halide which reacts with water at the surface of sand grains forms SiO which can bond the grains together (55). Reducing the cost of sand consolidation could be very useful since the applicability of gravel packing methods is limited by the bottom hole circulating temperature and the limited temperature stability of polysaccharide polymers. 

Both poly(DMA-co-EPl) and poly(DADMAC) have been widely used in the field in acidizing, hydraulic fracturing, sand control, and other well treatments (12). 

Christian, U.U. and Ayres, H.J. "Formation Damage Control in Sand Control and Stimulation Work," SPE paper 4775, 1974 SPE Symposium on Formation Damage Control, New Orleans, February 7 8. 

Table II. Comparison of Sand-Control Methods for Horizontal and Highly Deviated Wells...

Penberthy, W. L. Jr. Shaughnessy, C. M. Sand Control SPE Series on Special Topics, Henry L. Doherty Series Society of Petroleum Engineers Richardson, TX 1992 Vol. 1. 

Sparlin, D. D. Hagen, R. W. Selection and Design of Sand Control Methods Short Course Society of Petroleum Engineers Richardson, TX, 1993. 

Pearson, R. M. In Sand Control IHRDC Video Library for Exploration and Production Specialists, Module PE306 Workbook International Human Resources Development Corporation Boston, MA, 1988 pp 16-18. 

Adamache, I. Ghinea, M. Pantea, I. Stoican, V. Birsan, P. Sand Control During completion and Exploitation of Oil Wells Training Course for Specialization of Engineers in Oil and Gas Industry, Part A Ha Centrul de Documentaire al Industriei Petrolui Si Chimiei Bucharest, Romania, 1964 Vol. 3. (in Romanian). 

Table 8.3. Objectives and methods of aeolian sand control (after Kerr and Nigra, 1952). With the kind permission of the American... 

Kerr, R.C. and Nigra, J.O. 1952. Eolian sand control. Bulletin American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 36, 1541-1573. 

In those applications where it is desirable for the polymer solution to penetrate the rock matrix, it is of uptmost importance that the polymer not be filtered out on the formation face, thereby causing impairment of formation permeability. These applications include secondary and tertiary recovery as well as other operations such as gravel packing for sand control purposes. 

Al-Awadi J, Misak R (2000) Field measurement of Aeolian sand processes and sand control measures. Kuwait J Sci Eng 27 159-176... 

Used as sand control materialfor injection well (Zhao, 2005)... 

The new technology of composite carbon fiber for sand control is that carbon fiber through surface treatment is added into coated sand in order to improve the performance of blocking sand. The mechanisms of this technology are as follows ... 

Carbon fiber composite sand control depends on not only the cementation of resin, but also the increasing consolidation strength and flexural strength by adding special carbon fiber through surface treatment. 

Zhao Xiutai, Li Peng, Qiu guangmin. The Research and Application of Carbon Fiber Used in Coated Sand for Sand Control in Injection Well. Drilling S Production Technology 2005 6 93-95. 

Zhao Xiutai, Li Peng, Zhang Guorong. A New Technology of Carbon Fiber Composites for Sand Control in Injection Well of Gudong Oilfield. Petroleum Geology and Recovery Efficiency 2005 6 71-73. 

Ni and Cd in the leachate were eluted from the quartz sand control column at concentrations significantly above UK water quality standards (Table 7) (Fig. 2c). Cd was initially removed completely for almost two pore volumes in this experiment, coincident with a flush of Mn from the column and retardation of leachate Fe. Mass balance calculations suggest that the behaviour of Mn and Fe can be explained by the chemical dissolution of Mn oxyhydroxides on the quartz sand (Table 5) by leachate, according to the general reaction (Postma 1985) ... 

George, L., Morris, L. and Daniel, S. (2002) Function and apphcation of oilfield chemistry in open hole sand control completions, in Chemistry in the Oil Industry VII (eds T. Balson, H. A. Craddock, J. Dunlop et al.). The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, pp. 107-122. 

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