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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2009
Mehmet Parlar, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Balkrishna Gadiyar, Katy, TX (US);
Sudhir Shenoy, Clairmont, CA;
Shawn Mccleskey Rimassa, Houston, TX (US);
Mehmet Parlar, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Balkrishna Gadiyar, Katy, TX (US);
Sudhir Shenoy, Clairmont, CA;
Shawn McCleskey Rimassa, Houston, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of installing a sand control screen assembly in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation is carried out in a wellbore having a cased section and an uncased section. The wellbore contains synthetic or oil-based drilling fluids containing drilled solids. A first water-based displacement fluid that contains a shale inhibitor is introduced into the wellbore to displace the synthetic or oil-based drilling fluids from the uncased section of the wellbore. A second water-based displacement fluid is introduced into the wellbore to displace fluids within the cased section of the wellbore. The sand control screen assembly is then run to a selected depth within the uncased section of the wellbore to facilitate a gravel packing operation.