July-01-2022 - Friday Daily Update - Mohammad Elkady

Daily Update - Mohammad Elkady - (July-01-2022)

1.  What did I do today?

Today, I gather some literature about Hydraulic fracturing in Permian Basin. And I read URTeC 2021 5039.

2.  What did I find interesting/Work on?

·      URTeC 2021-5039

o   The integrated data revealed interesting fracture propagation features including layering, vertical propagation affected by pore pressure gradient, and different microseismic activities due to difference in-situ conditions.

o   The rest of this paper is irrelevant to our concerns

·      URTeC 2020-3309

o   Simulations were run for each pair of stacked reservoirs in the study using elastic properties, pore pressure, and confining stresses from the geologic models.

o   Using a top down (Bone Spring then Wolfcamp A) fracing strategy resulted in total gross fracture heights of both fractures of 576 feet--slightly lower than a bottom-up strategy which resulted in a combined total gross height of 547 feet

o   The rest of the paper is not of importance to our work

·      Most of the literature talks about stress analysis of the Hydraulic fracturing not the design itself.

·      I contacted CMG support to see if they have experience that can be shared regarding Well completion and dipping angle in the Permian Basin.

3.  What will I do next? 

I will continue to read more literature about well completion and formation inclination in the Permian Basin, until the IT figure out the issue with CMG software on my office computer.