Abstract Casabe Field since the beginning of primary stage presented sand production problem because the producers are opened with different multilayer and heterogeneous unconsolidated sandstone. Additionally in the first stage of waterflooding project the use of gravel pack was implemented to control sand production, but it generated a large fall down in production due to the mechanical damage, which caused re-pressurization in certain area and drop down injection rate. At the end oil recovery was too low and sweep efficiency very poor. In the current stage, at first, the sand production was facing by excluding intervals that could produce sand based on geomechanics study made and reduction in PI, but at the end we allow the sand production to increase oil production. Now being conducted an integrated management of sand production by implementing open intervals with high penetration and high density, patterns balance, water injection definition by layer through selective string installed in injector wells, optimization of fluid levels based on pressure drop, real-time sand monitoring, implementation of PCP as artificial lift system, sand fill removal optimization by coiled tubing (using clean fluid and nitrogen), displacement of flow lines and adequacy of surface facilities to better manage produced sand. It is necessary to learn and live with sand production to increase oil production and profitability in unconsolidated conventional wells instead of looking to avoid it, the solution is to handle in an efficient and economical way.
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Oil and Gas Production Techniques
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FuenteSPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference