SAND PRODUCTION PREDICTION ANALYSIS IN UNCONSOLIDATED RESERVOIR

The objective of project is to design an analytical model to predict the
possibilities of sand production during the drilling and production operation. By
having this information, it can helps in providing the save operation condition by the
plotting a graph of flowing bottom hole pressure, critical reservoir pressure, and
critical drawdown pressure prediction which will indicate the operation area without
possibilities of producing strength.
The major indication of possibilities of producing strength is the formation
strength. Thus, in this project the author will study and design an experiment on
testing the strength of formation by two main experiment which are thick-walled
cylinder and unconfined compressive strength method.
This report consists of 6 chapters that will cover more on the theory behind the
prediction of sand. In chapter I, the author list down all figure and table that used in
this prediction.
In chapter 2, the author discussed on the background study of this project, the
problem statement, objective and scope of this study, relevancy of this project and
finally discussed on the feasibility of this project.
In chapter 3, the author discussed on the literature review that related to this
project. The main contents of this literature review are the field observation of sand
production, laboratory sand production experiments, calculation of sand production
prediction, the theory of Poisson ratio, compressive strength and Mohr coulomb.
In chapter 4, the author discussed on the methodology used for this project,
the project activities, key milestones and equipment required to complete this
project. The last two chapters, the author discussed on the expected result and
discussion for this project that will complete by next part of this project.