A large technological gap exists between the end of the fracturing process and the accumulation of long-term production data for the purpose of performing a meaningful analysis. Flowback analysis (FBA) has emerged as a successful technology to address this challenge without incurring incremental field costs and directly ties geomechanical properties of the rock to completion and well production. In the complete paper, a hybrid hydraulic fracture optimization and field development workflow is demonstrated that uses several recently introduced applications of FBA along with other commonly applied multidisciplinary analysis methods.
Theory and Methods
The authors propose a workflow designed to work alongside existing development processes. This novel approach seeks to rectify the shortcomings of static mapping and the data limitations of advanced numerical simulations and is developed to complement these workflows to form a comprehensive hybrid workflow for asset development.
