Completion Optimization in the Williston Basin Through Integrated Data Sets

With the surge in activity in the Williston basin, the ability to optimize completions has mainly been an expensive trial-and-error system.

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Map view of all microseismic events located in both rounds, colored by stage.

With the surge in activity in the Williston basin, the ability to optimize completions has mainly been an expensive trial-and-error system. With the advent of sliding-sleeve technology, operational efficiency could potentially be increased, but the effectiveness of the completion remained unclear. This paper presents a work flow to analyze data sets to optimize completion efficiency.

Introduction

The operator gathered a number of data sets from the Williston basin (the geology is discussed in the complete paper) and integrated the results to arrive at an optimized completion design at a fraction of the cost. This step was conducted with Phase 1; Phase 2 was then implemented to test the recommended design.

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