Getting It Done: Best Practices In Horizontal Well Fracturing
Course Schedule:
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Registration includes continental breakfast and light lunch.
Registrants must attend the full-day Workshop to qualify for CEU credit.
Course Description:
Fracturing horizontal wells has proven to be different than vertical wells in several respects. The symptoms of these differences are:
1. Large variations between different treatments in the same well
2. Inability to place large and sometimes even small volumes of proppant in the fracture
3. Higher than expected initial injection pressures followed by more reasonable values in the middle and end of the treatment
4. Continuously increasing pressure during the treatment
5. Much higher injection pressures than depth-based expectations
6. Large pressure drops at shut-in even for very low permeability formations
7. Insensitivity of injection pressure to variations in rate
One or more of these symptoms are often observed to occur during fracturing many horizontal wells. With heavy use of actual field data this workshop will investigate the above and other important symptoms of horizontal well fracturing and their root causes, and offer completion and treatment steps for their prevention or remediation.
This workshop is targeted for those who are actually engaged in completing and fracturing horizontal wells and trying to optimize their treatments.
Registrant must attend all-day Workshop to receive CEU credit.
About the Instructor:
Dr. Ali Daneshy, president of Daneshy Consultants Int'l and professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Houston ... Click here for additional information.
