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          9. Formation Damage by Thermal Methods Applied to Heavy Oil
             Reservoirs                                                 361
             Jiaming Zhang and Zhangxin Chen
             9.1 Mechanisms of Thermally Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods  362
             9.2 Formation Damage by Thermal Methods                    368
             9.3 Discussion                                             378
             9.4 Conclusions                                            379
             References                                                 379

          10. A Special Focus on Formation Damage in Unconventional
             Reservoirs: Dynamic Production                             385
             Davud Davudov, Rouzbeh G. Moghanloo and Bin Yuan
             10.1 Introduction                                          385
             10.2 Fracture Damage                                       387
             10.3 Reservoir Formation Damage                            394
             10.4 Fluid Damage                                          405
             10.5 Summary                                               408
             Nomenclature                                               410
             References                                                 411
             Further Reading                                            416


          11. A Special Focus on Formation Damage in Offshore
             and Deepwater Reservoirs                                   417
             Xingru Wu

             11.1 Introduction                                          417
             11.2 Pressure and Temperature of Deepwater Reservoirs      421
             11.3 Complex Well Structure With Intelligent Well Completion  424
             11.4 Frac-and-Pack Completion                              428
             11.5 Formation Damage Due to Reservoir Compaction          431
             11.6 Deepwater Surveillance                                435
             11.7 Summary of Deepwater Development                      441
             Nomenclatures                                              443
             References                                                 444


          12. Formation Damage Challenges in Geothermal Reservoirs      447
             Zhenjiang You, Alexander Badalyan, Yulong Yang and Pavel Bedrikovetsky
             12.1 Introduction                                          447
             12.2 Physics of Particle Mobilization and Straining in Porous Media  457
             12.3 Laboratory Study on Fines Migration in Geothermal Fields  458
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