Oct. 19, 2017


Description

Understanding the ‘Frac-Hits’ Impact on a Midland Basin Tight-oil Well Production

 

The presentation will feature a mechanistic study for understanding the impact of ‘frac-hits’ on the tight oil ultimate recovery. ‘Frac-hits’ are defined as the invasion of fracturing fluids into an existing producer while a neighboring well is being fractured. Data suggest that substantial amount of fracturing fluids from offset wells may invade the existing producers, indicating high degree of connectivity. Even if the existing producer is shutin during the fracturing period, oil rates after re-start were lower than that prior to shut-in, and the oil production trend line deviates (usually lower) from the original type curve prediction.
 
The presenters used a mechanistic model to assess the impact of ‘frac-hits’ on oil production. The results indicate that the impact of ‘frac-hits’ on oil production can be significantly different depending on producing pressure of the impacted wells. Given this, oil production may be optimized by coordinating the fracturing sequence and spacing to avoid ‘frac-hits’ below the bubble point and avoid re-fracturing in the region below the bubble point.
 

 

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Featured Speakers

Speaker Dengen Zhou and Hao Sun

 
Dengen, a senior gas EOR advisor of Chevron Corporate, holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Technical University of Denmark with over 30 years of research and industry experience. His major research interests are gas EOR and tight rock and unconventional resources development He has extensive asset development experiences from …

 


Dengen, a senior gas EOR advisor of Chevron Corporate, holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Technical University of Denmark with over 30 years of research and industry experience. His major research interests are gas EOR and tight rock and unconventional resources development He has extensive asset development experiences from greenfield development to brown field optimization/redevelopment and gas EOR pilots.  


Hao Sun is a petroleum engineer in the Reservoir and Production Engineering department of Chevron Energy Technology Company. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University. He has 6 years of experience with Chevron working in tight rock unconventional reservoir engineering (Midland/Delaware Basin Shale, Utica Shale, Haynesville Shale) and gas EOR pilot design/ simulation (Midland Basin Shale/Tengiz).


 


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Organizer

Swathika Jayakumar

Contact Info: swathika.jayakumar@corelab.com 


 


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Date and Time

Thu, Oct. 19, 2017

11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(GMT-0600) US/Central

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Location

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse (River Oaks)

2405 W Alabama St
Houston, Texas 77098

 


 



Group(s): Reservoir