Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Wellbore Integrity Solutions LLC

David Shearer

Amjad Alshaarawi

Songlin Zhong

Thomas Heinold

Zahrah Al Marhoon

Alessandro Antonio Gallelli

Abdallah A Alkubaisi

Khalil E Mohamed

A method of repairing wellbores includes setting a plug to isolate a wellbore flowpath within a plurality of concentric casing strings, milling a window through a radially innermost casing string of the plurality of concentric casing strings, via a casing milling tool, and radially outward towards one of a plurality of cement columns, cleaning out one of plurality of a cement columns between two of the concentric casing strings to expand the window radially, inserting a solid eutectic alloy into the wellbore flowpath above the plug, heating the solid eutectic alloy, via a heater inserted within the wellbore flowpath, to melt the eutectic alloy and allow the melted eutectic alloy to flow into the window, solidifying the melted eutectic alloy to form a solidified eutectic plug within the window, and drilling out the solidified eutectic plug to restore the wellbore flowpath through the eutectic plug.

Eutectic alloy system for concentric casing string cement repair

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Damman, Saudi Arabia

David Shearer