The Impacts of Proppant Sorting and Dune Shape on Slickwater Hydraulic Fracturing Conductivity

Miskimins, Jennifer; Alotaibi, Mohammed B.

doi:10.15530/ap-urtec-2019-198208

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“…The results indicated that power-law models are appropriate for explaining such inter-dependence and bounced that pore compressibility as the key factor in describing the behavior of porosity and permeability of the rocks under external pressure. Alfataierge et al (2018), Miskimins (2019), Miskimins & Alotaibi (2019), Weijermars et al (2020) conducted several studies about hydraulic fracturing design optimization and proppant transport in pressure-sensitive reservoirs. Some analytical and numerical models were developed, and, in some cases, the non-Darcyan flow was also modeled.…”

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Integro-Differential Solutions for Formation Mechanical Damage Control During Oil Flow in Permeability-Pressure-Sensitive Reservoirs

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UFRJ) with a master's in mechanical engineering with an area of concentration in thermosciences by Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Fernandes was a young apprentice of Pride International and worked as a field specialist at Halliburton. Nowadays, Fernandes works in the well engineering department at Petrobras. He is an SPE paper contest jury member, session chair, and technical reviewer from Offshore Technology Conference (OTC Houston and OTC Brazil), scientific reviewer, and technical program leader for American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) and Brazillian Petroleum and Biofuels Institute (IBP). Moreover, he is a scientific reviewer from the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering from Elsevier ®.

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Integro-Differential Solutions for Formation Mechanical Damage Control During Oil Flow in Permeability-Pressure-Sensitive Reservoirs

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Asymptotic-Poroelastic Model for Reservoir Compaction Damage Management in Fractured Oil Wells with Stress-Dependent Permeability

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Fracture Hits in Unconventional Reservoirs: A Critical Review

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Summary “Fracture hit” was initially coined to refer to the phenomenon of an infill-well fracture interacting with an adjacent well during the hydraulic-fracturing process. However, over time, its use has been extended to any type of well interference or interaction in unconventional reservoirs. In this study, an exhaustive literature survey was performed on fracture hits to identify key factors affecting the fracture hits and suggest different strategies to manage fracture hits. The impact of fracture hits is dictated by a complex interplay of petrophysical properties (high-permeability streaks, mineralogy, matrix permeability, natural fractures), geomechanical properties (near-field and far-field stresses, tensile strength, Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio), completion parameters (stage length, cluster spacing, pumping rate, fluid and proppant amount), and development decisions (well spacing, well scheduling, fracture sequencing). It is difficult to predict the impact of fracture hits, and they affect both parent and child wells. The impact on the child wells is predominantly negative, whereas the effect on parent wells can be either positive or negative. The “child wells” in this context refer to the wells drilled with pre-existing active/inactive well(s) around. The “parent well” refers to any well drilled without any pre-existing well around. Overall, fracture hits tend to negatively affect both the production and economics of lease development. The optimal approach rests in identifying the reservoir properties and accordingly making field-development decisions that minimize the negative impact of fracture hits. The different strategies proposed to minimize the negative impact of fracture hits are simultaneous lease development, thus avoiding parent/child wells (i.e., rolling-, tank-, and cube-development methods); repressuring or refracturing parent wells; using far-field diverters and high-permeability plugging agents in the child-well fracturing fluid; and optimizing stage and cluster spacing through modeling studies and field tests. Finally, the study concludes with a recommended approach to manage fracture hits. There is no silver bullet, and the problem of fracture hits in each shale play is unique, but by using the available data and published knowledge to understand how fractures propagate downhole, measures can be taken to minimize or even completely avoid fracture hits.

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The Impacts of Proppant Sorting and Dune Shape on Slickwater Hydraulic Fracturing Conductivity

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Integro-Differential Solutions for Formation Mechanical Damage Control During Oil Flow in Permeability-Pressure-Sensitive Reservoirs

Integro-Differential Solutions for Formation Mechanical Damage Control During Oil Flow in Permeability-Pressure-Sensitive Reservoirs

Asymptotic-Poroelastic Model for Reservoir Compaction Damage Management in Fractured Oil Wells with Stress-Dependent Permeability

Fracture Hits in Unconventional Reservoirs: A Critical Review

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