Well treatment methods
Methods include delivering a well treatment fluid comprising wellsite material contained within a water soluble degradable package, mixing the well treatment fluid, and pumping the mixed well treatment fluid downhole.
1. A method, comprising:
preparing an aqueous well treatment fluid at a wellsite associated with a well;
at the wellsite, adding one or more water-soluble degradable packages to the aqueous well treatment fluid, wherein the one or more water-soluble degradable packages comprise respective container shells that include a first layer of cellulosic film external to a second layer of polyvinyl alcohol film, and one or more wellsite materials encapsulated by the first layer of cellulosic film and the second layer of polyvinyl alcohol film, the one or more wellsite materials comprising a fiber;
causing the container shells to dissolve at surface to release the one or more wellsite materials into the aqueous well treatment fluid;
mixing the one or more released wellsite materials in the aqueous well treatment fluid at surface; and
pumping the mixed aqueous well treatment fluid into the well.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more water-soluble degradable packages have a width between about 0.5 inches (in.) to about 1 in.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more wellsite materials are vacuum packed into the one or more degradable packages.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the respective container shells have a thickness of about 50 microns to about 100 microns.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more wellsite materials are disposed within the second layer of polyvinyl alcohol film.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more wellsite materials further comprise one or more particulates, one or more crosslinkers, one or more breakers, or one or more corrosion inhibiters, or a combination thereof.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more degradable packages are water soluble at ambient temperature.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the fiber comprises a polylactide fiber.
9. A method of delivering fibers into a well treatment fluid, the method comprising:
providing an aqueous based treatment fluid;
adding one or more degradable packages containing the fibers to the treatment fluid, wherein the one or more degradable packages comprises respective container shells that include a first layer of cellulosic film external to a second layer of polyvinyl alcohol film, and wherein the fibers are encapsulated by the first layer of cellulosic film and the second layer of polyvinyl alcohol; and
mixing the treatment fluid, causing the one or more degradable packages to degrade, dissolve, and release the fibers into the well treatment fluid at surface.
10. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more degradable packages have a width between about 0.5 inches (in.) to about 1 in.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the fibers are vacuum packed into the one or more degradable packages.
12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the respective container shells have a thickness of about 50 microns to 100 microns.
13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the fibers are disposed within the second layer of polyvinyl alcohol film.
14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first layer of cellulosic film and the second layer of polyvinyl alcohol further encapsulate one or more particulates, one or more crosslinkers, one or more breakers, or one or more corrosion inhibiters, or a combination.
15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the one or more degradable packages are water soluble at ambient temperature.
16. The method of claim 5 , wherein the fibers comprise a polylactide fiber.