Novel Diversion Case Studies for Improved Near-Wellbore Connection between Wellbore and Hydraulic Fracture

Scanlan, William P.; Pierskalla, Kyle J.; Sobernheim, David; Boehringer, Roberto

doi:10.15530/urtec-2018-2881395

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“…In recent years, given the demand for fracturing and the progress of temporary plugging agent technology, it has been widely used in the Southwest Oil and Gas Field, the Xinjiang Oilfield, the Shengli Oil Field, the Daqing Oil Field, the Tarim Oilfield, and other oil and gas fields, with an annual operation rate of more than 400 wells, which has achieved certain results [7][8][9][10][11]. Temporary plugging materials are expensive and have significant performance differences, but currently, there are no available technical standards for fracturing temporary plugging materials in foreign countries.…”

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Temporary Plugging Agent Evaluation Technology and Its Applications in Shale Reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin

Wang,

Yang,

Peng

et al. 2023

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Shale oil reservoirs in the Daanzhai section of central Sichuan are mainly developed in the Daer subsection, with a rich resource base and great exploration and development potential. However, the shale oil reservoir is characterized by shale and limestone interactions, poor physical properties, undeveloped fractures, and large differences in the fracture pressure of interactive reservoirs. Therefore, it is necessary to use temporary plugging and diverting fracturing technology to improve the complexity of fractures in reservoir reconstruction. To this end, an experimental device was innovatively established that takes into account the morphology of fractures and the permeability of reservoirs, and it can evaluate the temporary blocks and turns within third-level fractures in a reservoir. It can simulate third-level turning fractures under conditions involving 3–15 mm crack openings and different roughness values. Using this device and method, the combination and particle-size optimization experiments involving the temporary plugging agents used in the field were carried out, and the field tests were carried out in Well Long’an 1 and Well Ren’an 1 in the Sichuan Basin. The test results show that the pressure response after temporary plugging is obvious, which can significantly improve microseismic event points and increase the reservoir’s reconstruction volume. Compared with Well Nanchong 2H, the length in kilometers of the SRV after tackling key problems increases from 3918 × 104 m3 to 4578 × 104 m3, an increase of 17%. The average crack length increased from 265 m to 321 m, an increase of 21%, achieving a significant breakthrough in the “oil production gap”.

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Temporary Plugging Agent Evaluation Technology and Its Applications in Shale Reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin

Wang,

Yang,

Peng

et al. 2023

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Novel method to select chemical particulates for near-wellbore fluid diversion during hydraulic fracturing treatment

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Koster

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Experimental Study on Injection Pressure Response and Fracture Geometry during Temporary Plugging and Diverting Fracturing

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Summary Temporary plugging and diverting fracturing (TPDF) has become one of the fastest-growing techniques to maximize the stimulated reservoir volume (SRV). During the field operation of TPDF, diverters are injected to redirect the hydraulic fractures into the under-stimulated region of the reservoir, and, thus, to obtain better coverage of the created fracture network. In this study, the commonly used true tri-axial hydraulic fracturing system is modified to investigate the influences of various factors on the injection pressure response and resultant fracture geometry during diversion treatments. The experimental results show the feasibility of creating multiple fractures through TPDF, and more importantly give the following findings: (1) a complex diverted fracture network tends to be created at a small differential stress (2.5 MPa in this case), while diverted fractures tend to grow parallel to the initial fractures at a high differential stress (7.5 MPa in this case); (2) with the same concentration in the fracturing fluid, 40-mesh powder-shaped diverters can plug the created fractures and increase the net pressure more rapidly than 6-mm fiber-shaped diverters; (3) an excess of diverters can lead to a strong injection pressure response, and, thus, enhance the difficulty of creating multiple fractures; (4) when diverters are injected with the fracturing fluid, no obvious breakdown pressure or propagation pressure is shown during the fracture propagation.

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Novel Diversion Case Studies for Improved Near-Wellbore Connection between Wellbore and Hydraulic Fracture

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Temporary Plugging Agent Evaluation Technology and Its Applications in Shale Reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin

Temporary Plugging Agent Evaluation Technology and Its Applications in Shale Reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin

Novel method to select chemical particulates for near-wellbore fluid diversion during hydraulic fracturing treatment

Experimental Study on Injection Pressure Response and Fracture Geometry during Temporary Plugging and Diverting Fracturing

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