US 12,276,182 B2
Completing a wellbore
Tom Harneshaug, Dhahran (SA)
Assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran (SA)
Filed by Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran (SA)
Filed on May 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/316,099.
Prior Publication US 2024/0376804 A1, Nov. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 43/04 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/08 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/04 (2013.01) [E21B 41/0035 (2013.01); E21B 43/084 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of drilling and completing a wellbore with a coiled tubing assembly, the method comprising:
drilling, by the coiled tubing assembly, the wellbore through a mechanically competent formation into a poorly consolidated producing formation containing a hydrocarbon; and
completing the wellbore by:
running the coiled tubing assembly from a bottom hole location to a first uphole location, the first uphole location in the poorly consolidated producing formation uphole from the bottom hole location;
pumping a permeable proppant through the coiled tubing assembly into the wellbore at the first uphole location;
pulling, while pumping the permeable proppant through the coiled tubing assembly into the wellbore, the coiled tubing assembly from the first uphole location to a second uphole location, the second uphole location in the mechanically competent formation uphole from the first uphole location;
stopping pumping the permeable proppant through the coiled tubing assembly;
removing the coiled tubing assembly from wellbore;
coupling a mesh plug to the coiled tubing assembly;
running, by the coiled tubing assembly, the mesh plug into the wellbore to the second uphole location; and
installing the mesh plug in the wellbore at the second uphole location in the mechanically competent formation.