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Workover, Well Intervention and Well Stimulation

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Image referred from Internet What is basic difference between Workover, Well intervention and Well stimulation ? Work over is operations of repair and maintenance of well which requires Work over rig or drilling rig or hydraulic work over units. So, it is term used to describe heavy well maintenance or repairing works. X mas tree is removed and BOP is installed for workover or well service processes. It is not performed on live wells.(well needs to be killed to perform work over operations) Work over operations : 1) Water shutt off 2) Gas shutt off 3) Servicing 4) Fishing  5) Recompeltion 4) Layer transfer 5) Profile modification in injection wells 6) Well deepening 7) Side tracking 8) Long drift side track (LDST) 9) Short drift side track (SDST) 10) Well abandonment and Plugging Well interventions is term, which is used to describe operations, which doesn't involve rig. So, it is Rigless operation. So, it is term used for, light duty works of well repair and maintenance. It is pe

What is Well Stimulation

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To get rid of any problem in life, there is always two ways. One you research your problem, find root cause of problem and remove the root cause and second is, Ingore the problem and perform more better with alternative ideas or innovations. Let's say, you are always late for your office or school, that's problem. And you investigate that it's because of trafic signal delay on your way to office or school. Then you can have two ways. One, You can make your plan accordingly so that you will not arrive at red signal while crossing signal and other one is you change the route of your travel. Here first one is removing root cause and later one is Ignoring problem and finding other way   Same thing happen in our reservoir and production engineering also. When problem of formation damage occurs, there are to ways to get rid of it. One is removing original problem after finding why our formation is damaged. In this method, we use technique like Matrix acidization which removes the