Call for Papers

• Emulsions
• Rock/fluid interactions
• Fluid mobility and sag issues
• Fluid losses

• Chemical additives
• Clay and iron control
• Damage during perforation
• Fluid losses
• Incompatibility issues between drilling and completion fluids, e.g., scales, sludges
• Near wellbore emulsions, rock/fluid interactions
• Plugging of completions
• Scale and stress corrosion cracking risks of CRA in completion brines
• Surface filtering of fluids
• Super-clean fluids

• Emulsion
• Reactions with rock
• Scales formed near the wellbore and in cores
• Precipitation phase behavior
• Flocculation, agglomeration, and coagulation of asphaltenes, resins, paraffins, hydrates, and other organic solids

• Bio-mass, clays, scales, and their sensitivity to reservoir depletion, gas, water shut-off, conformance, and multiphase flow effects
• Geochemistry/chemistry of damaging materials
• Fines migration in injection and production wells
• Flow assurance strategies and technologies

• New developments and field examples of measuring skin
• Damage ratio
• Flow profiles
• Distributed temperature sensing
• Downhole videos
• Advancements in cased-hole logging technology
• Gravel pack and screen damage and screen cleanup evaluation
• Problems related to deepwater production

• Method for formation damage remedy and/or increased production
• Damage characterization
• Control of damage in horizontal wells and multilateral wells

• Slickwater stimulation
• Water imbibition in shales
• Wettability
• Additives in slickwater fracturing
• Water block
• Condensate block
• Frac fluid-induced damage
• Naturally fractured shale reservoirs
• Hydraulic fractured shale reservoirs
• Drilling, completion, and production damage characterization

• Decision and risk analysis of stimulation and remedial works
• Payout and rate of return
• Economics of re-entry
• Forecasting techniques
• Economic and technical effects of efforts to minimize cost of drilling, completions, and operations
• Flow assurance risk assessment
• Case studies

• Geological and mineralogical classification and distribution
• Applied NMR methods
• Fractal simulation
• Neural network
• Wellbore stability
• Subsidence and stress effects

• Gravel packing
• Frac packing
• High-rate water packs
• Stand-alone screens
• Expandable screens
• Sand consolidation
• Compaction
• Transport in horizontal, vertical, and high-angle wells
• Low frac margin open hole gravel pack
• High overbalance cased hole fracpacking
• Zonal isolation
• Fracturing high-permeability sandstones
• Predicting the need for sand control
• Intelligent/smart completions
• Comparative field case studies of various sand management techniques
• Emerging sand management techniques
• Modeling of sand control treatment

• Novel fluids, tools, and techniques

• Injectors vs. producers

• Selective/oriented perforating

• Acidizing and acid fracturing (acid sludge prevention and acid flowback analysis)

• Acid diversion

• Hydraulic fracturing and frac packing (frac fluids, proppants, fluid loss additives, closure stress, embedment, tortuosity, perforations, and relative frac/wellbore orientation) in vertical, high-angle and/or horizontal wells

• Shale fracturing (slick water, crosslinked polymer, hybrid)

• Optimizing results of perforations-underbalanced, extreme overbalanced, and remedial cleanup

• Fluid flowback

• Proppant flowback

• Fracture mapping (fracture height and half length)

• Acoustic damage removal (may fit under novel fluids, tools and techniques)

• Emphasis on technical and environmental/legal aspects of injection

• Conformance

• Downhole waste injection

• Optimizing injectivity in injection and disposal wells

• Field case studies of sand management techniques in injectors

• Field case studies or field performances of seawater injectors with sand control

• Water control polymers
• Physical plugging of water producing zones
• Physical plugging of thief zones in water injection wells
• Detection of water production profiles in production and injection wells
• Squeeze cementing
• Conformance in high angle and horizontal wellbores
• How to know you need conformance and how to evaluate its effectiveness, a tracer application

• Cavitation completions
• Coiled tubing to remove formation damage, for stimulation and for water production control in vertical, high-angle, and horizontal wellbores
• Damage minimization utilizing underbalanced drilling and MPD techniques
• Produced solids and drill cuttings disposal
• Deepwater completions-prediction and remediation of hydrates, scale, and formation damage problems
• Production optimization of remediated wells
• Formation damage issues in HP/HT wells
• Casing/liner drilling to minimize formation damage
• Water treatment/management for shale fracturing
• Formation damage concerns and remedies relevant to pressure depleted reservoirs
• Well stimulation techniques for enhanced geothermal reservoirs
• Green Stimulation, CO2 fracking, and electrical fracking technologies
• Repurposing oil & gas wells to geothermal wells
• CO2 and hydrogen storage (reservoir as well as well injectivity and productivity damage)

Please note that abstract submissions should be formatted into four (4) specific paragraphs:

• Objectives/Scope: Please list the objectives and/or scope of the proposed paper. (25-75 words)
• Methods, Procedures, Process: Briefly explain your overall approach, including your methods, procedures and process. (75-100 words)
• Results, Observations, Conclusions: Please describe the results, observations and conclusions of the proposed paper. (100-200 words)
• Novel/Additive Information: Please explain how this paper will present novel (new) or additive information to the existing body of literature that can be of benefit to and/or add to the state of knowledge in the petroleum industry. (25-75 words)

The following guidelines apply:

• DO NOT include title or author information in your abstract
• Word Minimum: 225
• Word Maximum: 450

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