Bean-up guidelines are formulated as quantitative conditions which are imposed on the following parameters of bean-up procedure: Tc - time

of choke opening; Tb - time between choke changes; TT - total time of bean-up; pDD - total drawdown; p - incremental drawdown; N = pDD /p - total number of steps;
BHP

pDD
Choke size

Tc

Tb

TT
Time

BEAN-UP RULES OF THUMB

QUALITATIVE BEAN-UP GUIDELINES

Bean-up with a smaller incremental drawdown and short time between choke changes is superior to the one with a higher incremental drawdown but a longer waiting time between choke changes; Continuous bean-up is better than a step-wise one; Bean-up inflicted skin is more sensitive to a higher total drawdown rather than to a shorter total bean-up time; Bean-up with the same DD can be performed faster for the reservoirs with higher permeability, lower viscosity, and lower compressibility; Vertical wells can be beaned-up faster than horizontal ones; The higher completion skin, the lower bean-up-inflicted formation skin, other parameters (DD & bean-up time) being equal.

QUANTITAVE ESTIMATION of BEAN-UP-INFLICTED DAMAGE

Fines mobilization
Concentration of damaging fines from grain size analysis yes Critical flow rate (pressure grad) & permeability impairment from coreflood test no exit

Formation failure by transient flow rates

Failure criterion from core test and/or data & grain size analysis

Permeability impairment and damage radius calculation vs DD & bean-up time

Tensile & compressive failure by transient flow rates vs DD & bean-up time SC Non-SC

Formation skin (soft & hard) calculation

as a function of DD and bean-up time

Sizing of SC design

Transient sand production prediction and quantification