Well bore recompletion

Claim 1

A process for recompleting a well bore having an open hole interval and having zonal breakdown in the locus of the well bore and the open hole interval to reconstitute isolation of a permeable zone from other permeable zones in a subterranean formation comprising: (a) packing off the open hole interval including the permeable zone to be isolated, (b) emplacing a particulate material in the packed off interval and the broken down zone, (c) adhering the particulates of the particulate material together with an adhesive to consolidate the particulates and to form a permable synthetic rock-like solid material, (d) removing material from along the open hole interval by reaming out to a greater diameter than the original completion so as to leave permeable synthetic rock-like solid material in the broken down zone but not horizontally adjacent to a non-permeable isolation zone which is situated vertically adjacent to the permeable zone to be isolated and which hroizontally abuts the reamed out hole, (e) setting a smaller diameter casing over the open hole interval, (f) cementing between the smaller diameter casing and the reamed out hole of (d), and (g) perforating to the permeable zone to be isolated to effect fluid communication between the well and the permeable zone to be isolated.