Fracturing of horizontal wells is responsible for increasing rates and reserves from many reservoirs. Determining the optimum number of treatments, spacing, and eventual completion efficiency is critical to the success of a horizontal well development. This paper details the production analysis techniques required to evaluate the completion efficiency of multiply-fractured horizontal wells. Analytically modeled responses will be compared with actual horizontal well data to verify the technique.

Keywords:
drilling operation, flow in porous media, Upstream Oil & Gas, Directional Drilling, fracture half length, interior fracture, lateral, flow capacity, Completion Efficiency, half length
Subjects:
Drilling Operations, Hydraulic Fracturing, Reservoir Fluid Dynamics, Directional drilling, Flow in porous media
Copyright 2009, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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