...M. Motiur Rahman; M. Khalilur Rahman Sand control by hydraulic fracturing in high permeable gas formation is becoming an increasingly popular completion option. This improves the well’s productivity as well as manages the sand production. So, optimizing the treatment parameters for hydraulic...

...Brenton S. McLaury; Siamack A. Shirazi; Vinod Viswanathan; Quamrul H. Mazumder; Gerardo Santos Predicting erosion resulting from the impact of solid particles such as sand is a difficult task, since it is dependent on so many factors. The difficulty is compounded if the particles are entrained...

...Xianghui Chen; Brenton S. McLaury; Siamack A. Shirazi A comprehensive procedure that combines mechanistic analysis and numerical simulation approaches is proposed to estimate the erosion in elbows for gas/liquid/sand particle multiphase flow systems. The erosion problem in multiphase flow...

...A. Hayatdavoudi To understand the basic relationship between the rising water-cut, well sanding, and migration of fines, the author’s work led him to examine the mechanism of well sanding due to sand liquefaction in cases where the storm chokes in offshore wells were activated and when...

...Jianrong Wang; Siamack A. Shirazi, Professor, A model for predicting sand erosion in 90 degree elbows and bends has been developed based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), particle tracking and erosion data. After the flow field was obtained from the flow (CFD) model, particles were introduced...

... in high-viscosity fluids such as Venezuelan crude, where viscosities around the 300–400-cP mark are commonly encountered. This paper describes some experiments performed on the BP Amoco 6-in. multiphase flow test facility located at Sunbury. These looked at the transport of field representative sand...

... of metal, sand production rate and size distribution, and flow composition are not accounted for. In the present paper, a method is presented that has been developed with the goal of improving the procedure by accounting for many of the physical variables including fluid properties, sand production rate...

... m . The API criterion is specified for clean service (noncorrosive and sand-free), and it is noted that the C -factor should be reduced if sand or corrosive conditions are present. The validity of the equation has been challenged on the basis that the API RP 14E limits on the C -factor can be very...

...Mamdouh M. Salama Sand production may be inevitable in many fields that have a relatively low formation strength. Sand erosion and settling predictions and sand monitoring are important elements of any effective sand production management strategy. Sand erosion predictions are used to establish...