Horizontal Wells with Multi-Stage Fracs Provide Better Economics for Many Lower Permeability Reservoirs

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Billy W. Mcdaniel
Keyword(s):  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Lower Permeability

Investigation of Horizontal Wells with Multi-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing Technological Efficiency in the Development of Low-Permeability Oil Reservoirs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Valerievich Miroshnichenko ◽  
Valery Alekseevich Korotovskikh ◽  
Timur Ravilevich Musabirov ◽  
Aleksei Eduardovich Fedorov ◽  
Khakim Khalilovich Suleimanov
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Specific Mass ◽  
Horizontal Section ◽  
Technological Complexity ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Effective Development

Abstract The deterioration of the reservoir properties of potential oil and gas bearing areas on mature and green fields, as well as the increase in the volume of hard-to-recover reserves on low-permeable reservoirs set us new challenges in searching and using effective development technologies to maintain and even increase the oil production levels. Based on successful international experience, Russian oil and gas companies use horizontal wells (HW) with multi-stage hydraulic fracturing (MSHF) for the cost-effective development of low-permeable reservoirs. Thus, since the first pilot works of drilling technologies and completion of HW with MSHF in 2011, at the beginning of 2020, over 1,200 HW with MSHF were drilled and came on stream at the fields of LLC RN-Yuganskneftegaz, about half of which are at the exploitation play AS10-12 of the northern license territory (NLT) of the Priobskoye field. In searching the best technologies and engineering solutions, the company tested different lengths of horizontal section of HW, the number of hydraulic fracturing (HF) stages and distances between hydraulic fracturing ports, as well as different specific mass of the proppant per frac port. Recently, there has been a tendency in design solutions to increase the length of the HWs and the number of hydraulic fractures with a decreasing distance between the frac ports and a decreasing specific mass of the proppant per frac port. This work studies the actual and theoretical efficiency of HW with MSHF of various designs (different lengths of horizontal section of HW and the number of HF stages) and to assess the viability of increasing the technological complexity, as well as to analyze the actual impact of loading the proppant mass per port on performing HW with MSHF. The study is based on the results of the analysis of the factual experience accumulated over the entire history of the development of the exploitation play AS10-12 of the NLT of the Priobskoye field of the Rosneft Company. In studying the viability of increasing the technological complexity, especially, increasing the length of horizontal section of HW, increasing the number of HF stages, and reducing the distance between the frac ports: we discovered the typical methodological errors made in analyzing the efficiency of wells of various designs; we developed the methodology for analysis of the actual multiplicity of indicators of wells of various designs, in particular, HW with MSHF relative to deviated wells (DW) with HF; we carried out the statistical analysis of the actual values of the multiplicity of performance indicators and completion parameters of HW with MSHF of various designs relative to the surrounding DW with HF of the exploitation play AS10-12 of the NLT of the Priobskoye field; we performed the theoretical calculation of the multiplicity of the productivity coefficient for the HW with MSHF of various designs relative to DW with HF for the standard development system of the exploitation play AS10-12 of the NLT of the Priobskoye field; we compared the actual and theoretical results. The paper also presents the results of studying the actual effect of changes of proppant's mass per port on performance indicators of HW with MSHF of the same design and with an increase in the number of fractures of the hydraulic fracturing without changing the length of horizontal section of HW. As for performance indicators, being the basis for estimating the efficiency of HW with MSHF of various designs, we used the productivity index per meter of the effective reservoir thickness and the cumulative fluid production per meter of the effective reservoir thickness per a certain period of operation. And as the completion parameters, we used the length of the horizontal section of HW, the number of HF stages, the distance between the frac ports, and the specific mass of the proppant per meter of the effective reservoir thickness per frac port. The results of this work are the determining vector of development for future design decisions in improving the efficiency of HW with MSHF.

Technological solutions for well construction in high-viscous shale hydrocarbon fields

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
V. P. Ovchinnikov ◽  
O. V. Rozhkova ◽  
S. N. Bastrikov ◽  
D. S. Leontiev ◽  
P. V. Ovchinnikov
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
High Viscosity ◽  
Horizontal Section ◽  
High Temperature And Pressure ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Hydrocarbon Fields ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
Calcium Hydrosilicate

The article discusses the main technological processes of well construction for the production of high-viscosity hydrocarbons from productive lowporosity reservoirs with high temperature and pressure conditions, which include shale deposits of Bazhenov formation. According to the results of the review and analysis of existing solutions in the development of this deposits, the following measures were justified and proposed: construction of branched multi-hole azimuth horizontal wells, implementation of selective multi-stage hydraulic fracturing in the productive formation; the use of oil-based process fluids when opening the reservoir, the use of plugging materials for isolation of the reservoir, the hardening product of which is represented by thermally stable hydrate phases (hydrobasic hydrosilicates). Вranched wells have a long horizontal end (about 1 000 meters or more). Only a part of the horizontal section works effectively, which is the basis for the development and application of the staged, both in time and along the strike, hydraulic fracturing method. At the level of the invention, a method and apparatus for carrying out multistage selective hydraulic fracturing in wells with horizontal completion have been developed. The article describes a method for implementing multistage selective hydraulic fracturing, comparing this method with the existing ones. Much attention is given to the need to use hydrocarbon-based solutions for the initial opening the reservoir, to use cement slurries from composite materials to separate the reservoir, the hardening product of which is a stone formed by low-basic calcium hydrosilicate.

The Use of Tracer Technologies for Well Monitoring with Multi-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing on Bolshetirskoye Oil Field

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Krasnov ◽  
Oleg Butorin ◽  
Igor Sabanchin ◽  
Vasiliy Kim ◽  
Sergey Zimin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Hydraulic Fracture ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Well Completion ◽  
Construction Design ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Urgent Task

Abstract With the development of drilling and well completion technologies, multi-staged hydraulic fracturing (MSF) in horizontal wells has established itself as one of the most effective methods for stimulating production in fields with low permeability properties. In Eastern Siberia, this technology is at the pilot project stage. For example, at the Bolshetirskoye field, these works are being carried out to enhance the productivity of horizontal wells by increasing the connectivity of productive layers in a low- and medium- permeable porous-cavernous reservoir. However, different challenges like high permeability heterogeneity and the presence of H2S corrosive gases setting a bar higher for the requirement of the well construction design and well monitoring to achieve the maximum oil recovery factor. At the same time, well and reservoir surveillance of different parameters, which may impact on the efficiency of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing and oil contribution from each hydraulic fracture, remains a challenging and urgent task today. This article discusses the experience of using tracer technology for well monitoring with multi-stage hydraulic fracturing to obtain information on the productivity of each hydraulic fracture separately.

Individual Fracture Efficiency Monitoring in Horizontal Wells by Using a New 3d Fine-Grid Temperature Modelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaly Virt ◽  
Vladimir Kosolapov ◽  
Vener Nagimov ◽  
Andrey Salamatin ◽  
Yulia Fesina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Transient Analysis ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Fine Grid ◽  
Hydrodynamic Parameters ◽  
Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Differential Efficiency

Abstract Profitable development of hard-to-recover reserves often involves drilling of horizontal wells with multistage hydraulic fracturing to increase the oil recovery factor. Usually to monitor the fracture sweep efficiency, pressure transient analysis is used. However, in case of several fractures this method delivers only average hydrodynamic parameters of the well-fracture system. This paper illustrates the value of temperature logging data and demonstrates possibilities of the 3-D thermo-mechanical modelling in evaluating the differential efficiency of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing.

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