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 JANUARY 2012

Proppant flowback remedial treatment brings dead well back to life

Essam Dagher, Moataz Tawakol and Philip Nguyen

An Egyptian oil well was shut in after only three days, when solids production destroyed the production pump. Treated with a new aqueous-based consolidation and proppant flowback control (CPFC) system, the well resumed solids-free production until it was depleted.


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