Fracturing/pressure pumping
This paper summarizes the design processes, selection criteria, challenges, and lessons learned during design and execution phases for fracturing in a tight, low-permeability carbonate reservoir with thin layers.
This paper presents recent results from a rigorous pilot-scale demonstration of natural-gas foam over a range of operating scenarios relevant to surface and bottomhole conditions with a variety of base-fluid mixtures.
The paper presents a case study of fracture interaction mitigation in a multistage horizontal stimulation of an offshore Black Sea well.
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The authors have investigated the effect of perforation hole size, geometry, and shape on the coefficient-of-discharge value at ambient conditions and with backpressure, before and after sand erosion. -
A lot has been learned about shale, but those working to eke out oil from that ultratight rock still extract more value from data than physics.
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Shale producers have learned in recent years that their fracture plugs may not be holding up as well as they thought. One of the first operators to realize the true scope of the issue is now sharing the pathway it took to solving it.
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The supermajor would be the second to conduct a hydraulic fracturing pilot project in the country.
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Ease of use and crowd-pleasing economics are driving US shale producers toward wet-sand completions. Chesapeake Energy is among the latest converts and explains why it wants to use wet sand on every new well.
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Offset well-pressure measurements in the Permian Basin are analyzed to evaluate if a fracturing job is overstimulated.
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The authors use machine-learning methods combined with geomechanical, wellbore-trajectory, and completion data sets to develop models that predict which stages will experience difficulties during completion.
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ExxonMobil submitted a proposal to Colombian authorities to develop a hydraulic fracturing pilot project in the Magdalena Basin. Colombia wants to drastically raise its declining reserves-to-production ratio by tapping into shale.
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New Testing Facility Built To Prove Whether Natural-Gas Foam Is Shale Sector's Next Fracturing FluidA 6-year R&D project concludes with the completion of a technology kit designed to study how combining highly pressurized natural gas and water could be a holistic alternative to traditional hydraulic fracturing.
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A pressure-monitoring technique using an offset sealed wellbore as a monitoring source has led to advancements in quantifying cluster efficiencies of hydraulic stimulations in real time.
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