What Is Oilfield Acidizing?

1. n. [Well Workover and Intervention, Well Completions

] The pumping of acid into the wellbore to remove near-well formation damage and other damaging substances. This procedure commonly enhances production by increasing the effective well radius.

What is acidizing process?

What Is Acidizing? ... The process of acidizing involves pumping acid into the well in order to dissolve the rocks that line the contours of the well. Acidizing increases production rates by creating channels into the rock through which the oil and gas can flow into the reservoir.

What is fracture acidizing?

Fracture acidizing is a hydraulic fracturing treatment for. carbonate formations in which acid-etched channels serve. as very-high-conductivity flow paths along the face of the. fracture.