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... Abstract This work aims to evaluate the fracture geometry and production scenarios comparing several fracturing fluids, such as slickwater and carbon-based fracturing fluids (CBFF), including two binary mixtures as approximations to anthropogenic CO 2 resulting from carbon capture (oxyfuel...

... a proppant pack is sandwiched between two rock platens with similar reservoir formations. The fracture cell can be configured horizontally or vertically to mimic different fracture orientations. To simulate flowback process, slickwater is injected from the inlet boundary and produced through perforations...

... Table 1 Fracturing fluid volume and proppant size used for various fluid recipes. Fracturing Fluid Liquid Volume, bbl Liquid Volume, m 3 Proppant Size Slickwater 36,985 5,880 100 mesh High viscosity slickwater 30,381 4,830 40/70 Linear gel 30,381 4,830 40/70...

... that is otherwise unpropped and thus, non-contributive with conventional sand/slickwater hydraulic fracturing processes. Production simulations illustrate that treatment designs incorporating neutrally buoyant ULW proppant treatment designs tailored for contemporary unconventional well stimulations deliver...

.... The paper also illustrates how tunable FRs provide greater versatility at the wellhead by replacing multiple fracturing fluid systems such as conventional friction reducer and linear gel with a single additive. When conventional FRs prove inadequate in slickwater designs, subsequent HVFR and linear gel...

... Low viscosity fluids are preferred due to tendencies to generate more fracture complexity, created fracture length, and created area in unconventional reservoirs. However, successful fracture stimulation is predicated upon overcoming the limited proppant transport capabilities of slickwater...

... Abstract The development of unconventional fields has experienced major efficiency gains. One main breakthrough in efficiency is the introduction of viscous slickwater fracturing fluids. Viscous slickwater enables placement of higher proppant concentration than conventional slickwater...

... with slickwater in the shale reservoirs due to its cost benefit, it is also thought that slickwater has limited solids carrying capacity. Overflushing may compromise productivity by creating near-wellbore pinchouts. The study presented here aims to test some of these conventions through the use a new high...

... seawater, is being generated every year from oilfield operations. Operating cost could be lowered if produced water is used in place of fresh water in fracturing activities, due to the reduced fresh water consumption and produced water disposal cost. Formulating slickwater or linear fracturing fluids...

... Abstract The hundreds of Duvernay wells near Fox Creek, Alberta, Canada are usually fracture stimulated with either slickwater or hybrid slickwater-crosslinked water treatments with a large acid spearhead. There is a 14.6% higher 3-year average cumulative production total for slickwater treated...

... by conventional gel or slickwater fluid systems. Pumping time is reduced because of the higher capacity to carry proppant compared with slickwater. Fewer fluid additives are required because less fluid volume is needed. In addition to better proppant transport, this technology reduces proppant pack and formation...

... to such fundamental differences. Whilst the globalisation of such technology is of course to be encouraged, any misapplication will only result in disappointment and cause delays to any such global development. slickwater hydraulic fracturing Upstream Oil & Gas overdisplacement fracture conductivity...

... of the previously designated Pembina field boundaries ("the halo") was made possible. The methodology and stimulation technique within the Cardium was then reevaluated. As a result, the traditionally considered fluid system evolved to a slickwater based application as an unconventional completion technique...

... The DFN model comparisons show the new fluid creates approximately 50% of the amount of Stimulated Reservoir Volume generated by the slickwater, but that the new system serves to prop the fractures more efficiently. In comparison to the conventional crosslinked system, the new system was observed...

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... in terms of the lateral transport away from the wellbore (length) and/or in vertically covering the productive interval (height). Many low permeability reservoirs are now experiencing a renaissance in the application of high rate slickwater fracs. The slickwater treatments are typically designed for long...

... treated utilizing some of these innovations have led to the consideration that perhaps the experts were a bit too hasty. Slickwater fracturing has enjoyed a recent renaissance, in large part, due to the favorable treatment cost economics for the well stimulation benefit achieved using such non-damaging...