Fracture Height Growth Study: Cooper Basin Probability Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Height Growth ◽  
Probability Analysis ◽  
Growth Study ◽  
Fracture Height ◽  
Cooper Basin

Hydraulic-Fracture-Height Growth: Real Data

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 8-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kevin Fisher ◽  
Norman R. Warpinski
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracture ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Height Growth ◽  
Fracture Height

Utilizing Microseismic to Monitor Fracture Geometry in a Horizontal Well in a Tight Sandstone Formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abu M. Sani ◽  
Hatim S. AlQasim ◽  
Rayan A. Alidi
Keyword(s):  
Horizontal Well ◽  
Fracture Propagation ◽  
Horizontal Stress ◽  
Height Growth ◽  
Tight Sandstone ◽  
Fracture Geometry ◽  
Fracture Length ◽  
Sandstone Formation ◽  
Fracture Height ◽  
Maximum Horizontal Stress

Abstract This paper presents the use of real-time microseismic (MS) monitoring to understand hydraulic fracturing of a horizontal well drilled in the minimum stress direction within a high-temperature high-pressure (HTHP) tight sandstone formation. The well achieved a reservoir contact of more than 3,500 ft. Careful planning of the monitoring well and treatment well setup enabled capture of high quality MS events resulting in useful information on the regional maximum horizontal stress and offers an understanding of the fracture geometry with respect to clusters and stage spacing in relation to fracture propagation and growth. The maximum horizontal stress based on MS events was found to be different from the expected value with fracture azimuth off by more than 25 degree among the stages. Transverse fracture propagation was observed with overlapping MS events across stages. Upward fracture height growth was dominant in tighter stages. MS fracture length and height in excess of 500 ft and 100 ft, respectively, were created for most of the stages resulting in stimulated volumes that are high. Bigger fracture jobs yielded longer fracture length and were more confined in height growth. MS events fracture lengths and heights were found to be on average 1.36 and 1.30 times, respectively, to those of pressure-match.

Fracturing Technology - Can We Finally Control Fracture Height?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Rylance ◽  
Yaroslav Korovaychuk
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Growth Control ◽  
Height Growth ◽  
Stress Variation ◽  
Fracture Height ◽  
Oil Rim ◽  
Rapid Deployment ◽  
Absolute Control ◽  
Growth Constraint

Abstract For as long as we have been performing hydraulic fracturing, we have been trying to ensure that we stay out of undesirable horizons, potentially containing water and/or gas. The holy grail of hydraulic fracturing, an absolute control of created fracture height, has eluded the industry for more than 70 years. Of course, there have been many that have claimed solutions, but all the marketed approaches have at best merely created a delay to the inevitable growth and at worst been a snake-oil approach with little actual merit. Fundamentally, the applied techniques have attempted to delay or influence the underlying equations of net-pressure and stress variation; but having to ultimately honour them and by doing so then condemned themselves to limited success or outright failure. Fast forward to 2020, and a reassessment of the relative importance of height-growth constraint and what may have changed to help us achieve this. The development of unconventionals are focused on creating as much surface area as possible in micro/nano-Darcy environments, across almost any phase, but with typically poor line of sight to profit. However, the more valuable business of conventional oil and gas is working in thinner and thinner reservoirs with an often-deteriorating permeability, but with a significantly higher potential economic return. What unconventional has successfully delivered however, is a rapid deployment and acceleration in a range of completion technologies that were unavailable just a few years ago. We will demonstrate that these technologies potentially offer the capability of finally being able to control fracture height-growth. Consideration of a range of previously applied height-growth approaches will demonstrate how they attempted to fool or fudge height growth creation mechanisms. With this clarity, we can consider what advances in completion technology may offer in terms of delivering height growth control. We suggest that with the technology and approaches that are currently available today, that height-growth control is finally within reach. We will go on to describe a multi-well Pilot program, in deployment and execution in 2020/021 in Western Siberia; where billions of barrels remain to be recovered in thin oil-rim, low permeability sandstone reservoirs below gas or above water. A comprehensive assessment of the myriad of height-growth approaches that have been utilized over the last 70 years was performed, but in each case demonstrated the fallibility and limitations of each of these. However, rather than the interpretation that such control is not achievable, instead we will show a mathematically sound approach, along with field data and evidence that this is possible. The presentation will demonstrate that completion advances over the last 10 - 15 years make this approach a reality in the present day; and that broader field implementation is finally within reach.

scholarly journals Apparent Toughness Anisotropy Induced by “Roughness” of In-Situ Stress: A Mechanism That Hinders Vertical Growth of Hydraulic Fractures and Its Simplified Modeling

SPE Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 2148-2162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengcheng Fu ◽  
Jixiang Huang ◽  
Randolph R. Settgast ◽  
Joseph P. Morris ◽  
Frederick J. Ryerson
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracture ◽  
High Stress ◽  
In Situ Stress ◽  
Height Growth ◽  
Hydraulic Fractures ◽  
Simple Relationship ◽  
Vertical Growth ◽  
Stress Profiles ◽  
Fracture Height

Summary The height growth of a hydraulic fracture is known to be affected by many factors that are related to the layered structure of sedimentary rocks. Although these factors are often used to qualitatively explain why hydraulic fractures usually have well–bounded height growth, most of them cannot be directly and quantitatively characterized for a given reservoir to enable a priori prediction of fracture–height growth. In this work, we study the role of the “roughness” of in–situ–stress profiles, in particular alternating low and high stress among rock layers, in determining the tendency of a hydraulic fracture to propagate horizontally vs. vertically. We found that a hydraulic fracture propagates horizontally in low–stress layers ahead of neighboring high–stress layers. Under such a configuration, a fracture–mechanics principle dictates that the net pressure required for horizontal growth of high–stress layers within the current fracture height is significantly lower than that required for additional vertical growth across rock layers. Without explicit consideration of the stress–roughness profile, the system behaves as if the rock is tougher against vertical propagation than it is against horizontal fracture propagation. We developed a simple relationship between the apparent differential rock toughness and characteristics of the stress roughness that induce equivalent overall fracture shapes. This relationship enables existing hydraulic–fracture models to represent the effects of rough in–situ stress on fracture growth without directly representing the fine–resolution rough–stress profiles.

Hydraulic Fracture Height Growth Containment by Artificial Barrier: Experimental Studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 396-398 ◽  
pp. 2420-2423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Quan Hu ◽  
Jin Zhou Zhao ◽  
Tao Lin
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracture ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Current Treatment ◽  
Height Growth ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Fluid Viscosity ◽  
Core Flow ◽  
Flow Test ◽  
Fracture Height

It is necessary to control hydraulic fracture height growth by creating artificial barrier for reservoir with thin payzone or weak overburdens and underburdens. In this paper, the influential factors on resistance role of artificial barrier were firstly identified and the parameters value range was determined. Then, an affixing intermediate container was combined into the core flow test device in order to ensure buoyant diverter well dispersed into carrying fluid in experiment test, and the particle size distribution of buoyant additives was tested by Malvern laser counter. The crack was made about 2/3 length in artificial core for simulating artificial barrier process by core flow test which were accomplished in base of recommendation practice of petroleum industry. Lastly, successive regression method was applied and a statistical relationship of the barrier strength with carrying fluid viscosity, floating additives concentration and core permeability. Then scouring experiments are made under modeling hydraulically fracturing treatment conditions. It was proven that the artificial barrier was steady at current treatment parameters and that could be effectively controlled hydraulic fracture height growth.

Mechanisms Controlling Fracture-Height Growth in Layered Media

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
pp. 142-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamel Ben Naceur ◽  
Eric Touboul
Keyword(s):  
Layered Media ◽  
Height Growth ◽  
Fracture Height
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