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Title: High Powered Lasers For Recompletion And Stimulation Of Gas Storage Wells
Author: Richard A. Parker
Source: American Gas Association 2000
Year Published: 2000
Abstract: Methods used to drill and complete gas and gas storage wells have not changed appreciably in decades. The availability of high power lasers, both industrial and military, along with the development of optical fibers that are able to carry large amounts of energy, have made it possible to consider developing a new, revolutionary drilling and completion system. A 1997 GRI project which evaluated the feasibility of adapting these technologies to new gas well and storage recompletion and stimulation system has not answered all the necessary questions, but gives reason for optimism that such a system is possible. The study indicates that lasers can cut any type of rock, and can do it in such a way that the formation permeability and porosity is not damaged. The potential exists for a completion method that allows real-time control of size, placement and depth of the perforations, as well as allowing the creation of slots along the well bore to increase flow from the formation.

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