A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand Screen
Sand production is one of the main problems restricting the safe, efficient and sustainable exploitation of marine natural gas hydrate. To explore the sand-control effects of gravel packing, experiments that simulate hydrate extraction in the water-rich environment were conducted with designed hydra...
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| author | Yiqun Zhang Wei Wang Panpan Zhang Gensheng Li Shouceng Tian Jingsheng Lu Bo Zhang |
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| description | Sand production is one of the main problems restricting the safe, efficient and sustainable exploitation of marine natural gas hydrate. To explore the sand-control effects of gravel packing, experiments that simulate hydrate extraction in the water-rich environment were conducted with designed hydrate synthesis and exploitation devices. Three sand control completion methods, including 120 mesh sand screen, 400 mesh sand screen, 120 mesh sand screen combined with gravel packing, are adopted. Sand and gas production rates were compared under different well types and sand control completion methods. Results show that the gas production modes of radial wells and vertical wells are almost the same at the same time due to the small experimental scale and high permeability. The sand production of the vertical well with gravel packing combined with a sand-control screen is 50% lower than that of the vertical well with sand-control screens only. Radial well with gravel packing combined with sand-control screens produced 87% less sand than screen mesh alone. The cumulative gas production and recovery rates of a radial well with the composite sand control method are better than those without gravel packing in the same development time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e1d7d506b50f4d4c83bf853d0ebabaaa2023-11-23T14:16:32ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122022-01-011017110.3390/jmse10010071A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand ScreenYiqun Zhang0Wei Wang1Panpan Zhang2Gensheng Li3Shouceng Tian4Jingsheng Lu5Bo Zhang6State Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing 102249, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing 102249, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing 102249, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing 102249, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing 102249, ChinaKey Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, ChinaCivil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, CanadaSand production is one of the main problems restricting the safe, efficient and sustainable exploitation of marine natural gas hydrate. To explore the sand-control effects of gravel packing, experiments that simulate hydrate extraction in the water-rich environment were conducted with designed hydrate synthesis and exploitation devices. Three sand control completion methods, including 120 mesh sand screen, 400 mesh sand screen, 120 mesh sand screen combined with gravel packing, are adopted. Sand and gas production rates were compared under different well types and sand control completion methods. Results show that the gas production modes of radial wells and vertical wells are almost the same at the same time due to the small experimental scale and high permeability. The sand production of the vertical well with gravel packing combined with a sand-control screen is 50% lower than that of the vertical well with sand-control screens only. Radial well with gravel packing combined with sand-control screens produced 87% less sand than screen mesh alone. The cumulative gas production and recovery rates of a radial well with the composite sand control method are better than those without gravel packing in the same development time.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/10/1/71natural gas hydratesand productionsand controlradial wellgravel packing |
| spellingShingle | Yiqun Zhang Wei Wang Panpan Zhang Gensheng Li Shouceng Tian Jingsheng Lu Bo Zhang A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand Screen Journal of Marine Science and Engineering natural gas hydrate sand production sand control radial well gravel packing |
| title | A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand Screen |
| title_full | A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand Screen |
| title_fullStr | A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand Screen |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand Screen |
| title_short | A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand Screen |
| title_sort | solution to sand production from natural gas hydrate deposits with radial wells combined gravel packing and sand screen |
| topic | natural gas hydrate sand production sand control radial well gravel packing |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/10/1/71 |
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