Abstract
After gel-breaking, the residue is the main causes of damaging the conductivity of proppant bed deposition and the permeability of matrix. In order to research the damage characteristics and reduce the formation damage, in the study, the performance of the gel-breaking fluids of two kinds of guar-gum fracturing fluids at different dosages of gel breaker was investigated and the molecular weight of guar-gum after gel-breaking was analyzed by combining with the measurement of the viscosity of the gel-breaking fluids. The molecular size during the gel-breaking process was measured using a laser particle size analyzer and the residue content measured by centrifugating the gel-breaking fluids. Finally, the reservoir damage of different types of fracturing fluid was evaluated by the core flow experiment. The results showed that when the gel-breaking time was too long, the liquid molecular size would be bigger, and the flocculation phenomena would appear, which would cause more damage; meanwhile, the view that the smaller the viscosity of the gel-breaking fluids, the smaller molecular size, the smaller the damage to the reservoir was not comprehensive, and existed some limitations.