The Mexico South Region produces more than 520, 000 bopdl from mature carbonate reservoirs. These reservoirs have widely varying reservoir pressures, presence of natural fractures and temperatures up to 350 degF. The extremely high temperatures makes even more challenging the stimulation process with conventional systems resulting in excessive corrosion and very inefficient wormholing. An innovative solution, considering a chelating agent as treating fluid, has proved to be an effective approach to stimulate these reservoirs. The post treatment production in two different wells showed outstanding results with higher rates than previous treatments and the trend of the production declination was smoothed. This new stimulation solution aided with a good candidate selection has led it to be the preferred solution for HT wells. Well A was treated with 15.0 m3 of the fluid based on chelating agents as main system, with a solvent preflush and overflush. Previous to this job two stimulation treatments were performed pumping a mixture of conventional acid systems. In both occasions the production increased, however, the production declined to pre-treatment rates in a matter of days. When treated with the new solution the production increased 254 bpd with almost no decrease with time (monitored for three months), indicating a more efficient stimulation treatment, and greatly improved on the economical indicators. Well B was stimulated with 20.0 m3 of chelating agent fluid after three previous attempts using conventional systems. The production increased 726 bpd. Post-treatment behavior was the same as well A. Wells A and B showed an increased production of 1.7 KBD with a very limited production declination because of more efficient wormhole creation due to retarded reaction rates allowing a wide contact with the reservoir thus improving production performance, Np and eliminating post-treatment neutralization and testing surface equipment requirements.
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