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Record W2944762262 · doi:10.11575/prism/36506

Improved Design and Analysis of Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests

2019· dissertation· en· W2944762262 on OpenAlex
Behnam Zanganeh

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Bibliographic record

VenueOpen MIND · 2019
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFracture (geology)EngineeringGeotechnical engineering

Abstract

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Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests (DFITs) have become commonplace in low-permeability (unconventional) reservoirs to obtain parameters used in hydraulic fracture stimulation design and reservoir characterization including minimum in-situ stress, initial reservoir pressure and reservoir permeability. The current understanding of the parameters that impact successful DFIT design and analysis is limited. A DFIT exhibits very complex physical behavior, with various mechanisms active at the same time, including those related to wellbore, fracture, leakoff and reservoir flow. Therefore, the observed trends in field data are not often predicted using existing analytical methods, and some common signatures cannot be interpreted. This underscores the need for a systematic simulation study of DFIT responses where all the active mechanisms are captured simultaneously. Furthermore, the required shut-in time to acquire reliable DFIT data for estimation of minimum in-situ stress and reservoir pressure may be excessive, ranging from days to weeks or months. In this study, a fit-for-purpose coupled reservoir-geomechanics model is used to simulate DFITs and generate synthetic pressure responses under various conditions. The validity of the simulation model is confirmed by comparison to field data. Progressive fracture closure is presented as an alternative closure mechanism, and the primary pressure derivative (PPD) is identified as a powerful tool to estimate fracture closure. The effect of wellbore storage, leakoff rate and dynamic fracture geometry on pressure response is investigated, and their signatures are identified. These findings are used to explain and analyze field data in major unconventional plays in western Canada. In order to accelerate the test and reduce shut-in time, a new DFIT procedure which combines the injection period with an ultra-low rate flowback is presented. Two successful field trials of this modified procedure are reported in this work. Finally, a conceptual method is presented for estimation of reservoir pressure in pump-in/flowback tests. This method utilizes rate transient analysis techniques to account for variations in pressure and flowback rate. This method is validated with numerical simulation and a field trial.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.043
Threshold uncertainty score0.804

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it