Oriented Perforations As a Sand-Control Method

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 86470, "The Effect of Oriented Perforations as a Sand-Control Method: A Field Case Study From the Varg Field, North Sea," by Johan Tronvoll, SPE, SINTEF Petroleum Research; Arne Eek, SPE, Pertra A/S; Idar Larsen, SPE, SINTEF Petroleum Research; and Francesco Sanfilippo, SPE, Oilfield Geomechanics Intl., prepared for the 2004 SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, 18-20 February.