Water control is one of the greatest challenges in Southern Mexico wells, where the reservoirs are generally fractured carbonates. Many of the wells have early water breakthrough as a result of one or more of the following: water coning, near- wellbore flow, high-conductivity channels, high-conductivity layer breakthrough, segregated layering, and inadequate completions. In cases where it is possible to shut off the producing interval and recomplete the well in a new interval, reticulated polymer gels and/or cement slurries can control water production. However, when the water is produced in a different interval than the oil, the success rate of reducing the water cut is less than 30%. In these cases, waterless cement slurry squeezes have proven to be an effective solution to unwanted water production. This method has been used to successfully reduce water cut in several fields in South Mexico with a nearly 100% success rate. A well which was carefully evaluated as a candidate and then treated with a waterless cement slurry resulted in a reduction in water cut from 71% to 5%, while oil production increased from 290 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) to 1054 BOPD. In addition, the deferred production was greatly reduced using this technique—less than four days compared with several weeks using alternative techniques. Water cement squeezes are a cost-effective way to reduce water production in the producing intervals of naturally fractured reservoirs. This technique has increased oil production while resulting in significant cost savings in terms of both treatment costs and deferred production.
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