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When:  Jan 19, 2023 from 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM (CT)
Where:   Petroleum Club, 777 Main Street, Fort Worth, TX, 76102, US
Community:   Fort Worth Section

When & Where



Petroleum Club
777 Main Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
US

Jan 19, 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM (CT)


Description

In January SPE Fort Worth will offer a unique opportunity to hear from Distinguished Lecturer Michael F. Rainbolt in a presentation of his paper "What You Need to Know About Fracture Driven Interactions" at our monthly luncheon. Please note that we will be moving back to the Petroleum Club Fort Worth in 2023!

We will start at 11:30am with lunch and Mike's presentation will begin at noon.

Abstract
Fracture driven interactions are well to well communication events that operators of horizontal shale play wells frequently encounter. Properly monitored and diagnosed, their impact on offsetting wells can be minimized with innovation and sound engineering practices.

Fluid migration events between horizontal wells during fracture stimulation operations is a problem for many operators. Exacerbating factors such as decreased well spacing, greater proppant intensity and tighter cluster spacing are amplifying the problem. Formerly referred to as “frac hits”, these communication events are now called “fracture driven interactions” (FDIs). There are several aspects to FDIs such as timing, magnitude, slope intensity, duration, and fracture orientation. All of these will be covered in the presentation. The industry is trying to cope with the detrimental effects that FDIs can cause such as loss of production in existing wells and sub-economic initial rates of the new wells. Operators have begun to utilize techniques such as extreme limited entry perforating and various water loading strategies, up to and including refracturing existing wells to mitigate FDIs. The root causes of fracture driven interactions will be presented along with a rigorous description of FDI characteristics. case studies from various shale plays will be shown and discussed. One of the studies is a mitigation trial exploring the effectiveness of preloading versus continuous injection. FDI data collection best practices and using FDI data in the moment to make changes on-the-fly will be shown. FDI myths such as creating barriers by leaving wells shut-in after fracture stimulating will exposed and debunked. Illustrations and examples gathered from actual completion operations will be shown and explained in detail. The audience will come away with a good understanding of what fracture driven interactions are and how to what can be done to respond to them.

Biography:

MFRainboltMike is a registered professional engineer and recently, senior technical advisor with Abra Controls Corporation in Houston, Tx. Mike earned a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1978. Mike has worked as a Production Engineer, a Drilling Engineer and for the past 24 years as a Completions Engineer. Mike has international drilling and completions experience. Rainbolt has co-authored multiple SPE papers with the last four of them dealing specifically with Fracture Driven Interactions. Mike’s latest writing, “Monitoring Primary and Existing Wells During Infill Well Fracturing”, was published in the April 2019 special Issue of the Hydraulic Fracturing Journal. Mike was featured in an SPE Podcast on fracture driven interactions in February of 2020.

Pricing

registration type
regular
    All Registrants
$35.00

Contact Information

Gladys Leal-Mata

(817) 336-2461

glm@cgaus.com

This month's lunch is sponsored by