Overview of formation damage -- Mineralogy and mineral sensitivity of petroleum-bearing formations -- Petrography and texture of petroleum-bearing formations -- Petrophysics-flow functions and parameters -- Permeability relationships -- Instrumental and laboratory techniques for characterization of reservoir rock -- Multi-phase and multi-species transport in porous media -- Particulate processes in porous media -- Crystal growth and scale formation in porous media -- Single-phase formation damage by fines migration and clay swelling -- Two-phase formation damage by fines migration -- Cake filtration: mechanism, parameters and modeling -- Inorganic scaling and geochemical formation damage -- Formation damage by organic deposition -- Laboratory evaluation of formation damage -- Simulator development -- Model assisted analysis and interpretation of laboratory and field tests -- Drilling mud filtrate and solids invasion and mudcake formation -- Interjectivity of the water-flooding wells -- Reservoir sand migration and gravel-pack damage: stress-induced formation damage, sanding tendency, prediction, and control -- Formation damage by scale deposition -- Field diagnosis and measurement of formation damage -- Formation damage control and remediation.