Related Oil & Gas Terms

• Cement squeeze

  A remedial cementing operation designed to force cement into leak paths in wellbore tubulars. the required squeeze pressure is achieved by carefully controlling pump pressure. squeeze cementing operations may be performed to repair poor primary cement jobs, isolate perforations or repair damaged casing or liner....

• Gas injection

  The technique of injecting gas into a reservoir. it may be done for pressure maintenance, oil viscosity reduction, light end stripping or storage. see injection gas....

• Squeeze

  The careful application of pump pressure to force a treatment fluid or slurry into a planned treatment zone. in most cases, a squeeze treatment will be performed at downhole injection pressure below that of the formation fracture pressure. in high-pressure squeeze operations, performed above the formation fracture pressure, the response of the formation and the...

• Acid fracture

  To fracture stimulate a formation by injecting the acid over the parting pressure of the rock and using the acid to etch channels in the fracture face....

• Secondary cementing

  Any cementing operation after the primary cementing operation. secondary cementing includes a plug-back job, in which a plug of cement is positioned at a specific point in the well and allowed to set. wells are plugged to shut off bottom water or to reduce the depth of the well for other reasons....