Infill Well Optimization

Petro-Hunt uncovers opportunities for drilling risk mitigation and well design innovation. View

Recently developed conveyance and acquisition system greatly reduces costs and risks. View

Comprehensive assessment and clear recommendations for challenging partially depleted stacked pay interval. View

Case studies from the Bakken, carefully considering all the physics, rock, and fluid interaction in the subsurface strata. View

PowerDrive Orbit vorteX RSS sets a lateral footage record for Mountrail County. View

High-pressure injector technology and large-particle diverter pills reduce job time. View

Fracturing service stimulates uncemented 1,822-ft section, treats 17% of lateral length, Williston Basin. View

Optimized stimulation services boost parent well production by 150% and infill well average by 66% over the parent, North Dakota. View

New sequenced fracturing technique further increases reservoir contact, Williston Basin. View

Completion techniques in the Middle Bakken formation have evolved over the years, with cemented Plug & Perf becoming the most common technique in recent years. It relies on stimulation of multiple clusters of perforations, normally 3-5, at one time. View

Fracture geometry control reduced frac hits as confirmed by high-frequency pressure monitoring. View

Increase proppant placement around infill wells and prevents fracture interference. View

Design methodology, execution details, and production results from Williston Basin. View

The increasing trend of drilling infill wells (more than 60% of new wells in 2017) comes with the significant risk of well interference. View

Engineered REDA Maximus ESP system manages steep production decline to achieve 82% drawdown in the Bakken Shale, North Dakota. View

Customer experiences continuous production down to 200 bbl/d using one ESP system. View

Customer increases production while avoiding ESP replacement and related costs. View

Workflow combines high-resolution sonic and resistivity imaging for optimizing completion design and hydraulic fracturing. View

Overcome casing size limitations and determine ideal targets based on geomechanical properties. View

Mangrove stimulation design uses log measurements to intelligently place perforation clusters in optimal intervals of high-pressure shale play. View

MDT tester, fracture injection tests, and sonic logs confirm minimum horizontal stress. View

TOC from Litho Scanner spectroscopy service and NMR pore-size distribution identify the sweet spot for optimal horizontal landing. point, Bone Spring Sand. View

The impact of different well spacing configurations on well interference and production performance. View

How changes in well spacing and proppant volume will impact new infill well performance. View

Successful application of seismic data and DFN for modeling hydraulic fractures in unconventional reservoirs. View

Secondary porosity features and natural fractures obtained across dynamic resistivity range. View

No rig required for obtaining a complete dataset in a horizontal well by tractor conveyance of Pulsar spectroscopy service and ThruBit Dipole acoustic service. View

Combining modeling, rock-fluid compatibility testing, and efficient OneStim services reduces stimulation costs, Permian Basin. View

Applying a multidisciplinary integrated workflow to a horizontal well to model complex hydraulic fractures and production. View

Cement-conveyed frac performance technology efficiently mitigates hole-cleaning challenges by altering mud mobility—without special equipment or cement designs. View

Minimizing interstage communication during hydraulic fracturing treatment results in higher normalized 3-month cumulative production. View

Fulcrum technology changes rheology in cement mud channels to prevent fluid movement. View

Preliminary results of field testing of new cement system that improves zonal isolation. View

Composite fracturing fluid maximizes wellbore contact in highly laminated and pressured unconventional reservoir in Permian basin, southern USA. View

Better proppant transport and increased vertical conductivity make better wells in the Wolfcamp Shale, Permian basin. View

During the industry downturn, operators tend to fine-tune efficiencies to drive down costs. View

CoilShift Precision CT frac sleeves enable completion of 37 frac stages in just 55 hours and provide subsequent zonal management flexibility View

Proactive approach of designing, monitoring, and responding to shale wells. View

AvantGuard services guides poststimulation operations, Permian Basin. View

The best way to manage solids production is by optimizing the initial completion. View

Real-time surveillance service monitors downhole pump performance and enables improved production and pump uptime in two unconventional fields. View

Surveillance and optimization avert 1,800 bbl of deferred oil production and 800 hours of field service in just 3 months. View

Established operators in the Permian Basin have been producing from legacy mature fields and formations for many years with vertical wells, but the focus has shifted to aggressive growth in new unconventional resource plays. With this shift, a majority of the players have transitioned their programs to horizontal wellbores with multistage completions. View

FMI microimager, Sonic Scanner platform Stoneley data, and CMR-Plus magnetic resonance in one trip. View

Open- and cased hole logging used to optimize positioning of fracture stages and perforation clusters for more efficient production from horizontal wells. View

One of industry’s greatest challenges in unconventional plays–especially at today’s oil prices–lies in designing completions that increase production significantly while simultaneously controlling costs. View

Combining ThruBit services, Kinetix software, and BroadBand Sequence service increases production for Lonestar Resources in the Eagle Ford Shale. View

Operator reduces completion costs by 11% with integrated stimulation design and modeling. View

Integrated workflow helps optimize infill drilling in drill-to-hold leases by minimizing the occurrence of fracture hits and well interference. View

Value of acquiring petrophysical data in the lateral section and its application to completion optimization. View

Results of the study can change the way unconventional resources are developed. View

Completion design for unconventional shale plays in North America is a topic of high current interest. Although the practice of stimulating shale horizontal wells with large slickwater treatments is slowly changing to the use of Hybrid/Crosslink treatments in certain plays, little has changed with the method of completion design itself. View

In multistage fracturing of unconventional formations, such as the Eagle Ford shale, wells are traditionally stimulated by fracturing several perforation clusters at once. While the technique is operationally efficient, there is evidence from production logs, microseismic monitoring and other measurements that several of the clusters produce below expectations or do not produce at all. View

As the oil & gas industry enters into next phase of unconventional reservoir development, many new in-fill wells will be drilled in various shale oil and gas plays in North America. A detailed evaluation to devise an engineered approach for stimulating and completing these wells is critical to maximizing productivity. View

This paper reviews the concept of optimized plug and perf completions as compared to the more frequently used approach of geometrically spacing stages and perforations. Reservoir quality and completion quality variables were used to design engineered completions in a multi-well study of Eagle Ford Shale wells. View

Fracturing service significantly increases stimulation effectiveness compared with conventional plug-and-perf technique. View

Schlumberger restimulates well, accesses new rock, increases reserves, and increases flowing pressure by 4,750 psi. View

Advanced sequenced fracturing service doubles oil and gas production rates while quadrupling flowing pressure, Eagle Ford Shale. View

Fracturing service significantly enhances operational efficiency and reduces the number of bridge plugs required by 68%. View

Aggressive engineered stimulation design maximizes infill production and avoids detrimental well-to-well communication, Eagle Ford Shale. View

Evaluation of near-wellbore communication and isolation of cemented BroadBand Precision service sleeves enhance well stimulation. View

As the oil & gas industry enters into next phase of unconventional reservoir development, many new in-fill wells will be drilled in various shale oil and gas plays in North America. A detailed evaluation to devise an engineered approach for stimulating and completing these wells is critical to maximizing productivity. View

Extend interval length and increase effectively stimulated rock volume. View

Intelligent engineering design, including a far-field diversion pill, corrects fracture growth geometry. View

In today's low oil price environment, the majority of operators are focusing on the development of their best acreage to maximize economic returns. These sweet spots are increasingly scarce, and hence the number of infill wells that will be drilled will increase. View

One of the main objectives of a refracturing operation is to increase oil and gas production while avoiding the costs associated with completing a new well. View

Real-time monitoring with Vx Spectra surface multiphase flowmeter enables better preservation of fracture integrity, Eagle Ford Shale. View

Similar geochemical fingerprints during flowback of all three wells indicate fractures contacted sections with the same bounding units and only minor scaling potential. View

Schlumberger and Magnum Hunter Resources establish innovative ESP approach in new environment. View

Real-time data has been instrumental for ESP operation, as well as enabling engineers to analyse the reservoir and assess well completion techniques and the influence of fractures from nearby wells. View

Workflow to generate an appropriately scoped, high-quality dataset to facilitate interpretation of subsurface phenomena. View

The objective of this study is to evaluate and maximize the effect of diversion in multi-cluster horizontal well hydraulic fracturing applications using water hammer profile analysis, step down test and microseismic monitoring. View