Improved Numerical Modeling and Better Risk and Uncertainty Assessment Using Real-Time Downhole Pressure Data and Pressure and Rate Transient Analyses

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kansao Naime ◽  
A. Yrigoyen ◽  
Z. M. Haris ◽  
L. A. Saputelli ◽  
G. Da Prat
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Parker ◽  
Robert N. Bradford ◽  
Laurence Ward Corbett ◽  
Robin Noel Heim ◽  
Christina Leigh Isakson ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kirby Nicholson ◽  
Robert C. Bachman ◽  
R. Yvonne Scherz ◽  
Robert V. Hawkes

Abstract Pressure and stage volume are the least expensive and most readily available data for diagnostic analysis of hydraulic fracturing operations. Case history data from the Midland Basin is used to demonstrate how high-quality, time-synchronized pressure measurements at a treatment and an offsetting shut-in producing well can provide the necessary input to calculate fracture geometries at both wells and estimate perforation cluster efficiency at the treatment well. No special wellbore monitoring equipment is required. In summary, the methods outlined in this paper quantifies fracture geometries as compared to the more general observations of Daneshy (2020) and Haustveit et al. (2020). Pressures collected in Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests (DFITs), select toe-stage full-scale fracture treatments, and offset observation wells are used to demonstrate a simple workflow. The pressure data combined with Volume to First Response (Vfr) at the observation well is used to create a geometry model of fracture length, width, and height estimates at the treatment well as illustrated in Figure 1. The producing fracture length of the observation well is also determined. Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA) techniques, a Perkins-Kern-Nordgren (PKN) fracture propagation model and offset well Fracture Driven Interaction (FDI) pressures are used to quantify hydraulic fracture dimensions. The PTA-derived Farfield Fracture Extension Pressure, FFEP, concept was introduced in Nicholson et al. (2019) and is summarized in Appendix B of this paper. FFEP replaces Instantaneous Shut-In Pressure, ISIP, for use in net pressure calculations. FFEP is determined and utilized in both DFITs and full-scale fracture inter-stage fall-off data. The use of the Primary Pressure Derivative (PPD) to accurately identify FFEP simplifies and speeds up the analysis, allowing for real time treatment decisions. This new technique is called Rapid-PTA. Additionally, the plotted shape and gradient of the observation-well pressure response can identify whether FDI's are hydraulic or poroelastic before a fracture stage is completed and may be used to change stage volume on the fly. Figure 1Fracture Geometry Model with FDI Pressure Matching Case studies are presented showing the full workflow required to generate the fracture geometry model. The component inputs for the model are presented including a toe-stage DFIT, inter-stage pressure fall-off, and the FDI pressure build-up. We discuss how to optimize these hydraulic fractures in hindsight (look-back) and what might have been done in real time during the completion operations given this workflow and field-ready advanced data-handling capability. Hydraulic fracturing operations can be optimized in real time using new Rapid-PTA techniques for high quality pressure data collected on treating and observation wells. This process opens the door for more advanced geometry modeling and for rapid design changes to save costs and improve well productivity and ultimate recovery.


2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naotaka Yamamoto ◽  
Shin Aoi ◽  
Kenji Hirata ◽  
Wataru Suzuki ◽  
Takashi Kunugi ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 562-565
Author(s):  
Tian Shui Zhou ◽  
Zhen Bao Ling ◽  
Jun Wang

In view of the difficulty to operate, low efficiency, and easy to leak of the manual perfusion method for dissolving cholecystolithiasis, an automatically perfusion-dissolved instrument is designed. By means of collecting and analysing the pressure data being outputted from pressure sensor in real time, and adjusting speed and direction of peristaltic pumps automatically to control quantity of dissolvent, so as to achieve the goal of litholysis under constant pressure in the gallbladder. The instrument has function of automatic heating and controlling temperature. Double controllers are used in the design, slave computer controls the running of each module of the instrument, and master computer is used to real-time display operation state and set parameters. Experimental results indicate that the system is stable and reliable, and with high efficiency for dissolving cholecystolithiasis, which provides a new and effective method for cholelithiasis medical treatment.


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