This week we wanted to highlight and share a paper we think everyone in tight unconventionals should read, namely URTeC 2118, “Rate Transient Analysis of Fracture Swarm Fractal Networks” by Jorge Acuna. The paper is a few years old now, exemplifies how RTA can be formed on wells with complex fracture networks. Fractal techniques are […]
We wanted to highlight and share a paper we think everyone in tight unconventionals should read, namely URTeC 2670034, “Sampling a Stimulated Rock Volume: An Eagle Ford Example” by Kevin Raterman and Helen Farrell et al. The paper is a few years old now, but has fundamentally changed the mental model for how unconventional rocks […]
We wanted to highlight and share a paper we think everyone in tight unconventionals should read, namely SPE-191407-PA, “A New Technique for Quantifying Pressure Interference in Fractured Horizontal Shale Wells” by Weichun Chu, Kyle Scott, Ray Flumerfelt, Michael Zuber and Chih-Cheng Chen. The paper is a few years old now, but has become the “go-to” […]
We wanted to highlight and share a paper we think everyone in tight unconventionals should read, namely URTeC 3719890, “Closing the Gap in Quantifying the Extension of Depletion: A Practical Workflow to Convert Analytical Fracture Half-Length to Actual Non-Uniform SRV” by Vivek Muralidharan and Soodabeh Esmaili. The paper addresses an important challenge in leveraging RTA […]
Accurate and reliable flowing bottomhole pressure (BHP) data is crucial for various engineering applications, such as reservoir simulation, production diagnostics, nodal analysis, RTA/PTA, and material balance. It allows engineers to make informed decisions about well production, reservoir management, and optimization strategies. However, manually gathering and calculating BHP data can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. […]
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We’re happy to share the latest release of whitson+, fresh out of the coding oven. There is a lot of new functionality in this release, and we’ve highlighted the main ones in this video https://youtu.be/pdO1zpu8Ek0 whitson+ – comprehensive software updates list Save Cases Functionality to add a new analysis for a given well Version control of previously […]
We’re happy to share the latest release of whitson+, fresh out of the coding oven. There is a lot of new functionality in this release, and we’ve highlighted the main ones in this short video: https://youtu.be/sS5-6oOdsFo whitson+ – comprehensive software updates list Numerical Model: Multi-layer model – be able to assign different petrophysical properties and PVT in the […]
PS! Video can be found here: https://youtu.be/9jHoEFFWRYI This award is dedicated to the many and important technological achievements made by Mike Fetkovich in the field of petroleum engineering. Its intention is to honor new technology that would have been recognized by Mike as improving the accuracy and certainty of resource determination and production forecasting. 2022 […]
An inherent assumption in most industry RTA is equally spaced fractures. However, as shown in several field studies (Raterman 2017, Gale 2018), the distance between individual fractures tends to be unevenly spaced along the wellbore (e.g., “fracture swarms”). Fractional RTA extends industry standard RTA workflows to account for uneven fracture spacing. Flow Regimes 1.01 To […]