Analysis of Generated and Reflected Pressure Waves during Fracturing Reveals Fracture Behavior
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Abstract
Abstract Fracture behavior is an important aspect in fracturing technology. Many techniques are available for prestimulation simulations and post-stimulation analysis of fracture behavior. However, very few techniques address fracture behavior during the stimulation process itself. Various fracture behaviors, such as fracture extension, ballooning, and tip screenout are often not known to the operator until after it is too late or even after the job is completed. Therefore, it is important to create and evaluate different real-time analysis techniques that can be used to capture the critical information available from data gathered during jobs. During the stimulation process, many types of information are available to the engineer. Pressure, flow, and temperature are basic information evaluated by many in the past. However, surface-pressure measurements are heavily influenced by friction, densities, proppant concentrations, and flow fluctuations, which makes conventional analyses difficult, if not impossible. In spite of this, analysis of dynamic pressure fluctuations has not been actively pursued. Certain changes in the downhole configuration, such as fracture extension, may send different pressure frequency spectra and wave intensities to the surface. The signature of these pressure waves is believed to carry such information to the surface. It is also believed that signal degradation due to friction may not influence the outcome of this type of analysis. Capturing and evaluating generated and reflected pressure waves during fracturing may be a new approach to monitor what happens downhole during fracturing. This paper discusses different real-time analysis approaches, such as frequency analysis and wavelet technologies, and evaluates their results and compares them to real job data. These analysis results and the successful stimulation results are presented in this paper.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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