Reservoir Formation Damage

Faruk Civan is the Martin G. Miller Chair Professor of the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He formerly held the Brian and Sandra O’Brien Presidential and Alumni Chair Professorships. Previously, he worked in the Chemical Engineering department at the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Civan received an Advanced Engineering Degree from the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, a M.S. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. All of his degrees are in chemical engineering. Dr. Civan specializes in petrophysics and reservoir characterization; fossil and sustainable energy resources development; carbon sequestration; unconventional gas and condensate reservoirs; reservoir and well/pipeline hydraulics and flow assurance; formation and well damage modeling, diagnosis, assessment, and mitigation; reservoir and well analyses, modeling, and simulation; natural gas engineering, measurement, processing, hydrates, transportation, and storage; carbon dioxide sequestration; coalbed methane production; improved reservoir recovery techniques; corrosion protection in oil and gas wells; filtration and separation techniques; oil and gas processing, transportation, and storage; multiphase transport phenomena in porous media; environmental pollution assessment, prevention, and control; mathematical modeling and simulation, and solving differential equations by numerical methods including by the quadrature, cubature, and finite-analytic methods. Dr. Civan is the author of two books, has published more than 330 technical articles in journals, edited books, handbooks, encyclopedia, and conference proceedings, and presented worldwide more than 125 invited seminars and/or lectures at various technical meetings, companies, and universities. He teaches short industry courses on a number of topics worldwide. Additionally, he has written numerous reports on his funded research projects. Dr. Civan’s publications have been cited frequently in various publications, as reported by the Science Author Citation Index. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. and a member of the editorial boards of several journals. He has served on numerous petroleum and chemical engineering, and other related conferences and meetings in various capacities, including as committee chairman and member, session organizer, chair or co-chair, and instructor. Civan has received 21 honors and awards, including five distinguished lectureship awards and the 2003 SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty and the 2014 SPE Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award.

PrefaceChapter 1—Overview of Formation DamagePART I Characterization of Reservoir Rock for Formation Damage— Mineralogy, Texture, Petrographics, Petrophysics, and Instrumental TechniquesChapter 2— Mineralogy and Mineral Sensitivity of Petroleum–Bearing FormationsChapter 3— Petrographical Characteristics of Petroleum-Bearing FormationsChapter 4— Petrophysics–Flow Functions and ParametersChapter 5— Porosity and Permeability Relationships of Geological FormationsChapter 6— Instrumental and Laboratory Techniques for Characterization of Reservoir RockPART II Characterization of the Porous Media Processes for Formation Damage—Accountability of Phases and Species, Rock-Fluid-Particle Interactions, and Rate ProcessesChapter 7— Multi-Phase and Multi-Species Transport in Porous MediaChapter 8—Particulate Processes in Porous MediaChapter 9—Crystal Growth and Scale Formation in Porous MediaPART III Formation Damage by Particulate ProcessesChapter 10—Single-Phase Formation Damage by Fines Migration and Clay SwellingChapter 11— Multi-Phase Formation Damage by Fines MigrationChapter 12—Cake Filtration: Mechanism, Parameters and ModelingPART IV Formation Damage by Inorganic and Organic Processes—Chemical Reactions, Saturation Phenomena, Deposition, and DissolutionChapter 13—Inorganic Scaling and Geochemical Formation DamageChapter 14—Formation Damage by Organic DepositionPART V Assessment of the Formation Damage Potential—Testing, Simulation, Analysis, and InterpretationChapter 15—Laboratory Evaluation of Formation DamageChapter 16— Formation Damage Simulator DevelopmentChapter 17— Model Assisted Analysis and Interpretation of Laboratory and Field TestsPART VI Formation Damage Models for Fields Applications- Drilling Mud Invasion, Injectivity of Wells, Sanding and Gravel-Pack Damage, and Inorganic and Organic DepositionChapter 18— Drilling Mud Filtrate and Solids Invasion and Mudcake FormationChapter 19—Injectivity of the Waterflooding WellsChapter 20— Reservoir Sand Migration and Gravel-Pack Damage: Stress-Induced Formation Damage, Sanding Tendency, and PredictionChapter 21— Near-Wellbore Formation Damage by Inorganic and Organic Precipitates DepositionPART VII Diagnosis and Mitigation of Formation Damage—Measurement, Assessment, Control, and Remediation Chapter 22— Field Diagnosis and Measurement of Formation DamageChapter 23—Determination of Formation- and Pseudo-Damage from Well Performance- Identification, Characterization, and EvaluationChapter 24—Formation Damage Control and Remediation- Fundamentals Chapter 25—Reservoir Formation Damage Abatement- Guidelines, Methodology, Preventive Maintenance, and Remediation TreatmentsIndex