... on the concept that combining N 2 -based foam fracturing and volume fracturing which is a super high foam quality fluid system to stimulate S1 and H8 horizontal wells and can ultimately reduce injected water volume and helps to reduce fracture face damage and proppant pack damage. It is the first trial...

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... reduction could be achieved through proppant fracturing fluid optimization. Another aspect of the study focused on modeling and accurately predicting friction losses during proppant fracturing operations, enabling better on-the-fly decisions, minimizing early flush cases, and improving fracturing geometry...

... in this paper, is Channel Fracturing (CF). CF utilizes proppant mixed with fibers in combination with a surface pulse pumping methodology, alternating short bursts of proppant slurry with clean fluid. CF aims to create proppant pillars to hold the fracture open. The pulsing results in infinite conductive...

... for friction reduction, regain fracture conductivity tests to assess proppant pack damage, spontaneous imbibition tests in an Amott cell to determine oil recovery from actual core field samples, and emulsion test to examine the final selected FR compatibility with oil and water formation fluids. Due...

..., these reservoirs are characterized by high temperatures (up to 180°C) and high closure stresses (up to 80 MPa), leading to short acid-etched fractures and low conductivity. Hybrid acid stimulation with proppant is a possible technique for building the conductivity of the fracture networks. Nevertheless...

.... Slick water frac fluid was used to hydraulically stimulate Stage-1 in Miqrat and crosslinked fluid was used to hydraulically stimulate Al-Bashair and Barik. The paper will discuss several new design elements and optimization implemented in fracture fluid design and proppant selection. The frac design...

... is to enhance fluid flow, proppant transport, and operational sustainability, contributing to more efficient and environmentally friendly fracturing practices. Two locally produced pyridinium-based Gemini surfactants, featuring mono-phenyl and di-phenyl spacers, were synthesized and tested with carboxylate...

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... treatments were applied to stimulate most of the net pay thickness of the reservoirs and enhance production performance. Both acid and proppant fracturing were considered for each reservoir type. Many challenges were faced during the planning and the execution of the fracturing treatments. This paper...

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... for an accurate total friction component. The proposed methodology aims to improve BHP estimates by reducing uncertainties associated with variability in friction pressures caused by three key factors: pipe-fluid friction, effect of proppant concentration, and perforation entry pressure. Fluid friction relies...

.... The porosity of the oil zone is between 10.0% and 15.6%, with an average of 12.57%. The permeability of the oil zone ranges from 0.44 mD to 160 mD, with an average of 6.18 mD, classified as a low-porosity, ultra-low permeability reservoir. Proppant Migration Mathematical Model The numerical simulation...

... multiple brine/sand slurry pulse stages pumped with brine as the carrier fluid along with a low-proppant concentration (0.5 to 1 lbm/gal), followed by intermediate brine pulse stages to remove any bridges that might form in the casing/screen annulus because of high-permeability contrast and uncontrolled...

... approach involves the use of automated engineered breakdown technique to reduce pumping pressures thus giving more room for increasing proppant concentration hence improving overall surface efficiency even in tight gas formations where formation breakdown and rate establishment become more formidable...

... to 2013 yielded less-than-ideal outcomes. Inadequate material selection and frac design resulted in initial gas rates averaging 10-20 MMcf/d, with alarming decline rates of 80% per year. The root causes were traced back to crushed proppant and proppant flowback to the wellbore after several months...

... inconsistency in fluid and proppant distribution. Understanding the distribution is crucial to completion designs aiming for a more even cluster contribution. In our study, we developed a new approach for evaluating the distribution of fracturing materials using multi-arm caliper data. Most perforations...

... proppant shale gas breaker society friction reducer biocide dosage viscosity ba geri Introduction The success of hydraulic fracturing operations depends mainly on the compatibility of fracturing fluids and chemical additives to achieve the designed proppant transport, friction reduction...

...-20m 3 /min, freezing gel for creating main fractures, slickwater for creating complex fracture networks, small particle-size proppants in quartz sand, and high-strength proppants, which effectively supported main fractures and various level discontinuity fractures. Field trials have demonstrated...

... of which 22 were generated randomly with practical minimum-maximum ranges and 49 were generated using empirical and analytical correlations. The inputs included reservoir rock and fluid properties, fracturing fluid, proppant and treatment parameters, and fracture conductivity results. The dataset was built...