Interpreting Uncemented Multistage Hydraulic-Fracturing Completion Effectiveness Using Fiber-Optic DTS Injection Data

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Howard Holley ◽  
Mathieu M. Molenaar ◽  
Erkan Fidan ◽  
Ben Mathew Banack
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing

Interpreting Uncemented Multistage Hydraulic-Fracturing Completion Effectiveness By Use of Fiber-Optic DTS Injection Data

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (03) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric H. Holley ◽  
Menno M. Molenaar ◽  
Erkan Fidan ◽  
Ben Banack
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing

Characterize Fracture Development Through Strain Rate Measurements by Distributed Acoustic Sensor DAS

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Tang ◽  
Ding Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Fracture Propagation ◽  
Acoustic Sensor ◽  
Observation Well ◽  
Complex Fracture ◽  
Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Fracture Development ◽  
Fracture Growth

Abstract In multistage hydraulic fracturing treatments, the combination of extreme large-scale pumping (high rate and volume) and the high heterogeneity of the formation (because of large contact area) normally results in complex fracture growth that cannot be simply modeled with conventional fracture models. Lack of understanding of the fracturing mechanism makes it difficult to design and optimize hydraulic fracturing treatments. Many monitoring, testing and diagnosis technologies have been applied in the field to describe hydraulic fracture development. Strain rate measured by distributed acoustic sensor (DAS) is one of the tools for fracture monitoring in complex completion scenarios. DAS measures far-field strain rate that can be of assistance for fracture characterization, cross-well fracture interference identification, and well stimulation efficiency evaluation. Many field applications have shown DAS responses on observation wells or surrounding producers when a well in the vicinity is fractured. Modeling and interpreting DAS strain rate responses can help quantitatively map fracture propagation. In this work, a methodology is developed to generate the simulated strain-rate responds to assumed fracture systems. The physical domain contains a treated well that the generate strain variation in the domain because of fracturing, and an observation well that has fiber-optic sensor installed along it to measure the strain rate responses to the fracture propagation. Instead of using a complex fracture model to forward simulate fracture propagation, this work starts from a simple 2D fracture propagation model to provide hypothetical fracture geometries in a relatively reasonable and acceptable range for both single fracture case and multiple fracture case. Displacement discontinuity method (DDM) is formulated to simulate rock deformation and strain rate responds on fiber-optic sensors. At each time step, fracture propagation is first allowed, then stress, displacement and strain field are estimated as the fracture approaches to the observation well. Afterward, the strain rate is calculated as fracture growth to generate patterns as fracture approaching. Extended simulation is conducted to monitor fracture propagation and strain rate responses. The patterns of strain rate responses can be used to recognize fracture development. Examples of strain rate responses for different fracturing conditions are presented in this paper. The relationship of injection rate distribution and strain rate responses is investigated to show the potential of using DAS measurements to diagnose multistage hydraulic fracturing treatments.

Novel Coiled Tubing Perforation Approach Enables Efficient Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing Operations in a Horizontal Well in Oman

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Al-Ghaithi ◽  
Fahad Alawi ◽  
Ernest Sayapov ◽  
Ehab Ibrahim ◽  
Najet Aouchar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Horizontal Well ◽  
Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Coiled Tubing

Stress perturbation caused by multistage hydraulic fracturing: Implications for deep fault reactivation

2021 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 104704
Author(s):  
Mengke An ◽  
Fengshou Zhang ◽  
Egor Dontsov ◽  
Derek Elsworth ◽  
Hehua Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Fault Reactivation ◽  
Deep Fault ◽  
Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing

Increasing the Productivity of Horizontal Wells Through Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing Using a Working Fluid Based on a New Biopolymer System

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Migunov ◽  
Aleksey Dmitrievich Alekseev ◽  
Dinar Farvarovich Bukharov ◽  
Vadim Alexeevich Kuznetsov ◽  
Aleksandr Yuryevich Milkov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Bazhenov Formation ◽  
Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
The Russian Federation

Abstract According to the US Energy Agency (EIA), Russia is the world leader in terms of the volume of technically recoverable "tight oil" resources (U.S. Department of Energy, 2013). To convert them into commercial production, it is necessary to create cost-effective development technologies. For this purpose, a strategy has been adopted, which is implemented at the state level and one of the key elements of which is the development of the high-tech service market. In 2017, the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, in accordance with a government executive order (Government Executive Order of the Russian Federation, 2014), awarded the Gazprom Neft project on the creation of a complex of domestic technologies and high-tech equipment for developing the Bazhenov formation with the national status. It is implemented in several directions and covers a wide range of technologies required for the horizontal wells drilling and stimulating flows from them using multi-stage hydraulic fracturing (MS HF) methods. Within the framework of the technological experiment implemented at the Palyanovskaya area at the Krasnoleninskoye field by the Industrial Integration Center "Gazpromneft - Technological Partnerships" (a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft), from 2015 to 2020, 29 high-tech wells with different lengths of horizontal wellbore were constructed, and multistage hydraulic fracturing operations were performed with various designs. Upon results of 2020, it became possible to increase annual oil production from the Bazhenov formation by 78 % in comparison with up to 100,000 tons in 2019. The advancing of development technologies allowed the enterprise to decrease for more than twice the cost of the Bazhenov oil production from 30 thousand rubles per ton (69$/bbl) at the start of the project in 2015 to 13 thousand rubles (24$/bbl) in 2020. A significant contribution to the increase in production in 2020 was made by horizontal wells, where MS HF operations were carried out using an experimental process fluid, which is based on the modified Si Bioxan biopolymer. This article is devoted to the background of this experiment and the analysis of its results.

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