AbrasiFRAC technology allows perforating and fracturing operations in a single field operation to reduce cycle time.
“Lowering the completion costs and reducing water production, the AbrasiFRAC technology is the perfect solution for the challenges encountered in this field.”
Charly Miklaski
Production Engineer
EOG Resources
AbrasiFRAC service efficiently stimulates highly laminated sands for EOG Resources
Challenge
Efficiently stimulate highly laminated sands while avoiding fracture growth into the waterbearing zones
Solution
AbrasiFRAC stimulation service for accurate placement of fracturing treatments
Results
Completion of up to 9 stages in a single AbrasiFRAC treatment, cutting water production by 85% and more than doubling gas production
Thin gas sands
The Hosston sands in Sligo field, northern Louisiana, are highly laminated. They contain many thin, gas-bearing sands alternating with water-bearing sands, with varying levels of depletion.
Conventional completion designs of these wells typically call for multistage stimulation treatments with energized fracturing fluids and use of bridge plugs for isolation between the stages. To improve both cost and time efficiencies, EOG Resources field-tested an alternative completion method.
Stimulation of individual sands
The AbrasiFRAC stimulation service, which stimulates multiple intervals in a well in a single field operation, proved to be the most efficient for multistage fracturing for this application. The AbrasiFRAC technology allowed EOG Resources to more effectively and efficiently stimulate the individual sands, with the treatment varying from four to nine stages using CO2-energized fracturing fluids.
Increased production
The AbrasiFRAC technology allowed more accurate treatment placement and avoided fracture growth into water-bearing sands, reducing water production in one particular case by 85% while increasing gas production to almost 3 MMcf/d from 1.2 MMcf/d. Additionally, the use of AbrasiFRAC technology resulted in a major completion-cost reduction from the conventional techniques.
About the Contact family
AbrasiFRAC technology is part of the intervention category of the Contact four-category portfolio of staged fracturing and completion services. These technologies maximize reservoir contact by offering the most efficient and effective services for each well. The Contact intervention category enables multiple stages to be perforated/jetted, fractured, and isolated in one intervention. Contact services can be enhanced with real-time measurement options.
