EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION, CORRELATION, AND DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF NEAR-WELLBORE FORMATION TREATMENT BY GEL PARTICLES AND PARTICLE-GEL SYSTEM

Reservoir permeability heterogeneity with high permeability zones can create many problems in petroleum reservoirs such as lost circulation of drilling fluids and high water production in hydrocarbon producing wells. These problems cause high cost to the oil and gas industry. Thus, the conditions leading to plugging of the high permeability zones during the treatment and conditioning of high permeability porous formations by suspended gel particles and silica flour particle-gel systems were studied and useful empirical correlations, dimensionless correlations, and charts were developed which can be used for effective and successful design of formation-plugging treatment.