Abu Roash-D (AR-D) is a common carbonate reservoir in Abu Gharadig (AG) field, Western Desert of Egypt. It is characterized as a limestone reservoir which has good lateral continuity, contains natural fractures with poor connectivity in addition to formation tightness. The heterogeneity and tightness of AR-D reservoir are the main challenges to maintain economical well productivity. Initially, Several vertical wells had been drilled in AR-D reservoir and stimulated via matrix acidizing, but could not achieve or sustain the economical target production rates. Recently, two vertical wells were acid fractured as a trial to produce conductive fracture with sufficient length to allow more effective drainage around the wellbore, but test results showed higher flash production of 3,000 BOPD then rapid decline and low recovery occurred. This awesome results encourage embarking on field development and additional production data gathering for development optimization. The large interest in developing such low permeability reservoirs has been a direct result of the favorable economics achieved by the advancements in horizontal well drilling and stimulation technologies hold great promise to increase production by dramatically increasing the contact area with the producing interval, maximizing the drainage volume around a well and link those natural fractures network. So, In order to economically develop AR-D reservoir resources a comprehensive parametric study was conducted on low permeability AR-D reservoir of western desert (through gathering of additional data during the development a major reservoir, the review of the core and test permeability data across the reservoir as well an evaluation of the uncertainties and associated development risks) has documented some critical results, showing the productivity index ratio between stimulated vertical and horizontal wells illustrates the improvement to be obtained from higher reservoir contact. This paper takes a multidisciplinary approach to better understand how to enhance the productivity of low permeability AR-D reservoir in Western desert of Egypt through a detailed analysis of well performances and exploitation approaches after the successful Implementation of horizontal wells to maximize drainage volume around the well to revive low producing wells due to reservoir tightness and discuss the actual performance of the horizontal wells and compares them with the offset conventional vertical wells and highlights the productivity gain.

Abu Roash-D is characterized as a carbonate reservoir in Abu Gharadig field, Western Desert of Egypt. It has a good lateral continuity, contains natural fractures with poor connectivity in addition to formation tightness. To further increase the production from the field, a full development plan for Abu Roash-D carbonate reservoir was initiated with drilling of horizontal wells. The main objectives of drilling such horizontal wells was to develop the tight unconventional reservoirs and increase production by dramatically increasing the contact area with the producing interval, maximizing drainage volume around a well and link the natural fractures network thus, achieving an economically production targets. The effective placement of sufficient acid volume along the open-hole section of such horizontal wells provides significant challenges in acid diversion due to the high permeability streaks that requires a very effective diversion technique for optimal acid distribution a long the open hole lateral for a successful acid stimulation treatment. A fiber optic enabled coiled tubing attempts to tackle some of these limitations. This new approach deploys downhole sensors with fiber optic telemetry inside the coiled tubing string provides a real time temperature, pressure and correlated depth measurments. The fiber optic telemetry allows distributed temperature surveys recording for obtaining temperature profiles across the entire wellbore. Monitoring the distributed temperature sensing (DTS) profiles accompined with downhole pressure data interpretation enables real time diagnostic of downhole events between the stimulation stages providing an important aid to further optimize and improve the performance of stimulation treatments. This paper presents case histories of the first time implementation of horizontal wells in Abu Roash-D tight carbonate reservoir in Egypt's western desert in which fiber optic enabled coiled tubing was utilized to optimize stimulation treatment. The real time monitoring of downhole distributed temperature sensing profiles allowed the identification of both high permeability zones as well as tight zones across the entire openhole lateral. This enabled the operator to take pro-active decision on where to spot diverter or acid, select the best diversion technique and allow for treatment optimization.

Upper Baharyia formation is a common reservoir in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is characterized as a heterogeneous reservoir with low sand quality and shale interbeds that make hydraulic fracturing a mandatory technique to economically develop these marginal fields. The continuous economic field development requires an efficient application of hydraulic fracturing, which, in turn, requires understanding fracture propagation paths and the area of pay affected by the fracture treatment to optimize well spacing and placement and determining the best injection pattern for optimizing sweep efficiency. To optimize the fracture design, a microseismic monitoring technique was implemented for the first time in Khalda concession, Western Desert of Egypt to diagnose the hydraulic fracture and improve field development strategies. Two hydraulically fractured wells were monitored in an attempt to assess the fracture propagation and perform fracture model calibration to develop a predictive tool for hydraulic fracture design and to indicate the fracture growth as the fractures are being created by rock failure. The objectives of this fracture mapping were to (1) measure fracture geometry (height, length and azimuth) and (2) provide immediate information that could be used on offset spacing and azimuth strategy associated with future wells. The results of microseismic fracture mapping are being integrated with the planned stimulation model, mini-frac data, stress profile and geological information shall be combined to calibrate the fracturing model for future fracturing campaigns in Upper Baharyia formation.

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