Abstract:
A method of performing a stimulation operation for an unconventional wellsite having natural fractures and hydraulic fractures. The method involves providing at least one treatment parameter with a corresponding objective function value and performing a fracture operation based on the treatment parameter. The fracture operation involves defining a treatment schedule, conducting a hydraulic fracture operation, and estimating production. The objective function value is based on an objective function. The method also involves modifying the treatment parameter and performing the fracture operation based on the modified treatment parameter. The modified treatment parameter has a corresponding modified objective function value based on the objective function. The method continues with optimizing the treatment operation by comparing the objective function value with the modified objective function value, and repeating the modifying and optimizing for new modified treatment parameters until convergence about a desired outcome whereby an optimized parameter is defined at convergence.
Abstract:
Methods for shortening the waiting-on-cement (WOC) time during primary and remedial cementing operations are disclosed. A fluid pill is injected into the wellbore that comprises reactants. The reaction is acclerating hydration and shortening the time necessary for the slurry to set and harden.
Abstract:
Methods for shortening the waiting-on-cement (WOC) time during primary and remedial cementing operations are disclosed. A fluid pill is injected into the wellbore that comprises reactants. The reaction is acclerating hydration and shortening the time necessary for the slurry to set and harden.
Abstract:
A storable composition for oilfield application including a slurry of a carrier fluid and a particulate blend made of proppant; the particulate blend comprising at least a first amount of particulates having a first average particle size between about 100 and 5000 μm and at least a second amount of particulates having a second average particle size between about three and twenty times smaller than the first average particle size; such that a packed volume fraction of the particulate blend exceeds 0.74 and the particulate blend volume is sufficient to substantially avoid settling of the particulate in the carrier fluid.
Abstract:
Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating subterranean formations, in particular, oilfield stimulation compositions and methods using polymer viscosified fluid crosslinked with metal complexes with amino and/or phosphonic acids to provide an increased crosslinking temperature and a low pH sensitivity. The metal complexes can be used with borate crosslinkers to provide continuous viscosification as the temperature is increased.
Abstract:
An apparatus usable with a well includes an explosive pellet that is adapted to be communicated into the well via a fluid and includes an explosive material that is adapted to be detonated downhole in the well. The apparatus further includes an encapsulant to encapsulate the explosive pellet to inhibit unintended detonation of the explosive material. The encapsulant is adapted to be at least partially removed from the explosive pellet in response to the explosive pellet being communicated into the well.
Abstract:
A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore, the method including the introduction a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous fluid composition comprising an aldehyde releasing compound.
Abstract:
A system and method for determining the asphaltene content of a downhole oil sample are provided. In one example, the method includes obtaining a hydrocarbon sample from a hydrocarbon formation of a reservoir at a given depth using a downhole tool. A liquid phase of the hydrocarbon sample is isolated within the downhole tool and the liquid phase is subjected to downhole analysis within the downhole tool to create a chromatography sample. The downhole analysis is based at least partially on size exclusion chromatography. A first property of the chromatography sample is measured to obtain a measured value, and a second property of the chromatography sample is estimated based on the measured value and known calibration curves.
Abstract:
The application discloses a storable composition for oilfield application including a slurry of a carrier fluid and a particulate blend made of proppant; the particulate blend comprising at least a first amount of particulates having a first average particle size between about 100 and 5000 μm and at least a second amount of particulates having a second average particle size between about three and twenty times smaller than the first average particle size; such that a packed volume fraction of the particulate blend exceeds 0.74 and the particulate blend volume is sufficient to substantially avoid settling of the particulate in the carrier fluid.
Abstract:
A method for evaluating a multiphase oilfield fluid includes blending a first sample of the fluid with a viscosity modifying agent to transform the sample into a paste; making a first XRF measurement of the paste to estimate an elemental composition of the fluid; making a calcimetry measurement of a second sample of the fluid to estimate a total carbonate concentration of the fluid and to obtain an acidified second sample; separating the acidified second sample to obtain an acidified brine; making a second XRF measurement of the acidified brine to estimate an elemental composition of the acidified brine; and determining an elemental composition of a solid phase of the multiphase oilfield fluid from the elemental composition of the acidified brine and the elemental composition of the multiphase oilfield fluid.