Successful Control of Water Production in Slimhole Completions in a Tight-Gas Sandstone: South Texas Case Study

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Xavier Rodriquez ◽  
Richard Tucker ◽  
Charles Mike Pawlik ◽  
Jordan Ciezobka
Keyword(s):  
South Texas ◽  
Tight Gas ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Successful Control ◽  
Tight Gas Sandstone

Advanced Technology Completion Strategies for Marginal Tight Gas Sand Reservoirs: A Production Optimization Case Study in South Texas

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lloyd Fairhurst ◽  
Shirley Indriati ◽  
Brian Wayne Reynolds ◽  
Jerry Wayne Lewis ◽  
Mark Wade Holcomb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Optimization ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Tight Gas

Fracturing Previously Bypassed Highly Laminated Tight Gas Sands, A Production Optimization Case Study in South Texas

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lloyd Fairhurst ◽  
Mark E. Semmelbeck ◽  
Brian Reynolds ◽  
Shirley Indriati ◽  
Jerry Wayne Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Optimization ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Tight Gas ◽  
Tight Gas Sands

Characterization of hydraulic properties of rocks using probability of fluid-induced microearthquakes

Geophysics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. F27-F33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge A. Shapiro ◽  
Susanne Rentsch ◽  
Elmar Rothert
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Properties ◽  
Pore Space ◽  
Tight Gas ◽  
Induced Earthquakes ◽  
Small Magnitude ◽  
Geothermal Reservoirs ◽  
Passive Seismic ◽  
Tight Gas Sandstone

The use of borehole fluid injections is typical for exploration and development of hydrocarbon or geothermal reservoirs. Such injections often induce small-magnitude earthquakes. The nature of processes leading to triggering of such microseismicity is still not completely understood. Here, we consider induced microseismicity, using as examples two case studies of geothermal reservoirs in crystalline rocks and one case study of a tight-gas sandstone reservoir. In all three cases, we found that the probability of induced earthquakes occurring is very well described by the relaxation law of pressure perturbation in fluids filling the pore space in rocks. This strongly supports the hypothesis of seismicity triggered by pore pressure. Moreover, this opens additional possibilities of using passive seismic monitoring to characterize hydraulic properties of rocks on the reservoir scale with high precision.

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