Sand production is always a challenge for oil production companies worldwide. Several factors can cause sand production, poor cementing material in the reservoir rock, high production rates which cause high draw down result in an unstable zone. The studied field is Belayim field consists of 105 wells; 90 of these wells are oil producing wells, 11 are water injection wells, two wells are dump flood wells, and two wells are water source wells.
The main target was to perform a gravel pack job on a high permeability water source well to deliver a planned rate of 25,000 BOPD.
A study has been done for the formation, and the history of gravel pack jobs done in the company fields to
provide the optimum solution for the target well. The well was considered as a critical well because of the number of challenges and because of its importance to the company in supplying the field with the injection water, which was down for months. The well completion design, sizes, and the pumping techniques were accepted from the company well review team. The well has a problem from high losses resulting from the high permeability and long interval. The fluid losses should be controlled before running in with the completion string and equipment and pumping the gravel pack treatment to avoid early screen-out.
After pay zone perforating, the well suffered from high losses as expected.