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The objective of optimizing a fracture design is to spend the least amount of money and get the most productivity out of the reservoir by stimulating and contacting as much reservoir rock as possible. This paper presents a unique work flow that addresses in real time the challenges of perforation and fracture-treatment design while accounting for the lithologic and stress variability along the wellbore and its surroundings.
Surface Drilling Data in Fracturing Design and Analysis
Existing fracturing-design tools often make simplistic assumptions because of a lack of input data. These designs still use layer-cake models and sometimes rely on the data of a nearby well rather than data measured at the considered well. As cost-cutting efforts accelerate in unconventional wells, expecting a log at every well will not be feasible.
