Design and construction of test facility for evaluation of swell packers in cased and open holes

Abstract In the petroleum industry, packers refer to components/products which are used isolate one section in a formation from others, or outer of production tubing inner section, may be casing liner wellbore itself. Mechanical installed through some form movement. Permanent low cost and provide better seal. Retrievable have lower sealing capability but re-usable after repair, therefore expensive. More innovative made swellable elastomers rather new. These swell when they come contact with different types fluids (mostly water oil). Like casing, these new lowered desired depth allowed before injection operations begin. Various studies been published about swelling mechanical response elastomers. However, many questions remain performance packers, their effectiveness actual wellbores rough random profiles. This paper describes design development an experimental unit for testing mix inert elastomer seals under realistic well conditions. Actual tubulars housed concrete block that replicates open-hole cased-hole wells layers varying roughness. is one-of-its-kind providing full-scale demonstration working against rock wellbore. It also complete apparatus investigate behavior fast-swell medium-swell elastomers, how seal off irregular boreholes. work can basic understanding visual corroboration engineers students, application developers, academic research personnel.