Foam stimulation

Journal Article · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1983 · J. Pet. Technol.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2118/9754-PA· OSTI ID:6023871

Grundmann, S R; Lord, D L

Foamed fluids are becoming very popular for use in stimulation treatments. This can be attributed to their excellent properties such as low leakoff rate, excellent proppant transport, longer fractures with less fluid, minimum formation damage, and superior posttreatment cleanup. Base fluids that can be foamed are oil, water, and acid. Foam quality is very critical to many of the properties of the resultant foam fluid. This quality changes with temperature and pressure. Included in this paper is a new approach to an easier determination of foam quality under bottomhole treating conditions so that necessary ratio adjustment can be made at the wellhead to obtain the desired quality at the formation.

• Research Organization: Halliburton Services
• OSTI ID: 6023871
• Journal Information: J. Pet. Technol.; (United States), Vol. 35:3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
03 NATURAL GAS
FLUID INJECTION
FOAMS
FLUID MECHANICS
QUALITY CONTROL
NATURAL GAS WELLS
OIL WELLS
ENHANCED RECOVERY
FLUIDS
FORMATION DAMAGE
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
INORGANIC ACIDS
OILS
ORGANIC ACIDS
PRESSURE DEPENDENCE
PROPPING AGENTS
QUANTITY RATIO
ROCK-FLUID INTERACTIONS
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
WATER
WELL STIMULATION
COLLOIDS
COMMINUTION
CONTROL
DISPERSIONS
FRACTURING
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
MECHANICS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RECOVERY
STIMULATION
WELLS
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