Westside In-Person: Can We Finally Control Fracture Height?
Please note - the in-person luncheon has been cancelled due to weather. If you would like to attend the webinar, please register here.
For as long as we have been hydraulic fracturing, the intent has been to stay out of undesirable horizons containing water and/or gas. An absolute control of created fracture height has eluded the industry for more than 70 years. Fundamentally, we have tried to delay, influence, or subvert the underlying equations of net-pressure and stress variation, condemning ourselves to limited success or more often outright failure. More recently, there has been a reassessment of the relative importance of this goal along with changes that may help us achieve it.
Unconventionals have delivered the rapid deployment and acceleration of a range of completion technologies that were unavailable to us just a few years ago. This presentation will show that these technologies potentially offer the capability to actually control fracture height-growth. Previously, applied height-growth approaches were often largely attempts to fool or fudge height growth mechanisms. It will be demonstrated that with technologies and approaches available today, height-growth control is finally within reach. Data will be presented from a multi-well pilot program involving the deployment and execution of these techniques.
In summary, this presentation will offer an overview of the myriad height-growth approaches that have been utilized over the last 70 years, while describing their limitations. It will then be demonstrated how completion advances over the last 10-15 years have finally made this approach a reality, and that field implementation is within reach.
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Location:
Norris Westchase Center
9990 Richmond Ave., Suite 102
Houston
,
TX 77042