Sand Production and Its Control in the Nile Delta Oilfields of Egypt

Sand production can be challenging for many operators in all over the world. The production of formation sand and fines can cause erosion, or plugging to both surface and sub-surface equipment, resulting in major well intervention, environment disaster due to flow lines or vessels damage and sand disposal costs. This book is dedicated to study and evaluate Sand Production and Its Control in the Nile Delta Oilfields of Egypt, and offer a complete control system for sub-surface and surface equipment protection, and this by prevent or reduce sand production, with mechanical or/and chemical well interventions, also adjustment the operating parameters whatever having control equipment or not. If the sand starts to migrate, we will follow it to stop and collect it at the nearest station, to prevent erosion and damage of the next stations. Sand grains migration stations start from the formation, wellbore, production tubing, completion accessories, x-mass tree, choke, flow line, plant manifold, and finally process equipment. So, the target is to stop the grain at the deepest station, because it will damage any station it will pass through.

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Ahmed S. Elhawary : M. Sc. Petroleum Engineering, Suez university and B. Sc. Petroleum Engineering, Cairo university, Egypt. Working as petroleum Engineering section head in Mansoura and petroceltic petroleum Co. Have ten years of experience in Nile Delta Oilfields, Egypt.