Reservoir

This year’s Acidizing feature presents three SPE conference papers that discuss an important battlefront of enhanced production—carbonate reservoirs, those plays whose heterogeneity, reactivity, and flow behavior pose challenges that remain comparatively little-understood, despite the industry’s intensified efforts to maximize their output.

This work proposes a method to interpret far-field strain-change and pressure data to quantify fracture connectivity and properties at the cluster level.

This paper extends an integrated two-scale continuum model that contemplates mass, momentum, and energy changes to study the acid-stimulation process in complex carbonate acid-stimulation systems with the development of fracture and vug networks.

The authors of this paper write that autonomous outflow-control devices can positively affect matrix acidizing by providing the best possible conformance.

Best practices are not static; they evolve alongside advancements that redefine what is achievable.

Data mining techniques are unlocking new insights from the performance of thousands of Bakken wells. This article explores how those insights are helping refine completion optimization.

The three papers selected for this feature highlight some creative solutions that aim to increase project value by either increasing recovery or optimizing injectant cost, or both.

Three case studies consider the gas-related reasons electrical submersible pumps fail in unconventional shale environments.

The Texas Railroad Commission has tightened its guidelines on the permitting of disposal wells in the Permian Basin.

The company’s new Retina imaging system creates high-resolution borehole images at the drill bit.