AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 18 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW210042
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Prediction of Sand Production Through Porous Media: Mechanisms and Challenges to Optimising the Inefficiencies

Wenhua Huang1* Yan Huang, Juan Ren2 Jinglong Jiang2 Marischa Elveny3
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1 School of Design, Xianyang Normal University, Xianyang, Shaan’xi, 712000, China
2 School of Biological Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Han Zhong, Shaan’xi, 723001, China
3 Data Science & Computational Intelligence Research Group, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
AJWEP 2021, 18(4), 45–52; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW210042
Submitted: 26 July 2020 | Revised: 26 August 2021 | Accepted: 26 August 2021 | Published: 18 November 2021
© 2021 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

One of the challenges facing drilling companies in the completion and production of oil and gas  wells is sand production from the formation. The ability to predict sand production in the wells of a reservoir,  to decide to use different methods of control is considered a fundamental issue. Therefore, analysis and study  of sand production conditions and selecting the optimal drilling route before drilling wells are significant issues  that are less considered. According to the findings of this study, due to the sand grains adhesion issue, saturation  increase has caused to increase in the intermolecular uptake, and therefore moisture has been decreased. It leads  to reduction in the sand production rate. Pressure increase has a direct relationship with the sand production rate  due to increased induced drag forces. Moreover, phenol–formaldehyde resins provided an acceptable measurement  as there are no significant changes in porosity and permeability

Keywords
Phenol–formaldehyde resins
sand production rate
moisture effect
permeability reduction
chemical consolidation.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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