An Engineered Approach to Hydraulically Fracture the Vaca Muerta Shale

Buijs, Hernán; Ponce, Jorge

doi:10.2118/189866-ms

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“…They outlined a comprehensive strategy for model characterization, constraint, and validation, incorporating pre-fracture diagnostic injections, core sample data, and post-fracture production metrics. Their work emphasized the role of diagnostic fracture injection tests (DFITs) in data collection, concluding that an in-depth grasp of pore pressure, permeability, and stress conditions is vital for hydraulic fracturing optimization in this formation [76].…”

Section: Integrated Development In Vaca Muertamentioning

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An Overview of Recent Developments and Understandings of Unconventionals in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

Lu,

Li,

Han

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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In this article, we comprehensively reviewed Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation, which encompasses a geological overview, advances in extraction technologies, the potential environmental impact, and economic analysis. Detailed geological analysis is discussed, emphasizing the stratigraphy, lithology, and depositional environments of the formation, which is crucial for understanding the distribution and quality of hydrocarbon resources. The latest advancements in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling are explored, which have significantly improved efficiency and increased recoverable resources. The environmental implications of these extraction methods are critically examined. This includes a discussion of the necessity of sustainable practices in hydrocarbon extraction, highlighting the balance between resource development and environmental stewardship. The economic viability of the Vaca Muerta formation is analyzed, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, market trends, and investment patterns. This section assesses the formation’s potential as a profitable venture and its impact on the global energy market. Finally, the review anticipates future technological and policy developments. The strategic importance of the Vaca Muerta formation in the global energy sector is underscored, and its potential role in shaping future hydrocarbon exploration and production strategies is examined. In short, this essay not only presents data and findings, but also contextualizes them within the broader scope of energy production, environmental sustainability, and economic viability. This comprehensive approach provides a multi-faceted understanding of the Vaca Muerta formation’s significance in the global energy landscape.

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Section: Integrated Development In Vaca Muertamentioning

confidence: 99%

An Overview of Recent Developments and Understandings of Unconventionals in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

Lu,

Li,

Han

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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“…The permeability of the DFIT diagnostic test is one order of magnitude greater than that obtained by the core test. The black line in Figure 17 indicates the original monitoring pressure, the red line indicates pressure curves fitted with core permeability and low pore pressure, and the green line indicates pressure curves fitted with DFIT permeability and low pore pressure, the blue line represents pressure curves fitted with DFIT permeability and DFIT pore pressure Figure 17 [21].…”

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Insights to Unconventional Reservoir Fracturing: A Transdisciplinary Methodological Approach

2022

MCET

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A better understanding of hydraulic fracturing behavior is even more crucial in unconventional plays as more new-well or infill-well are drilled and completed nowadays. Having integrated different sources of information/data such as the general trend of hydraulic fracturing practices during the last 20 years, DFIT and fracturing simulation, core analysis data, outcrops, the Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site (HFTS), and fracturing monitoring in the wells or between wells such as pressure, tracers, DAS, DTS, DSS and so on. After synthesizing all kinds of data and information and applying multidisciplinary fusion ideas to the analysis, we proposed an innovative conceptual model of hydraulic fracturing coming along with some associated concepts; The transdisciplinary integration approach we used in this research follows all fundamental physics law and meticulously logical reasoning and analogy with crossing validation, the first principle thinking epistemologically because of the physics of unconventional fracturing is much more complicated than any single discipline can explain. More often than not, the solution coming from any discipline or data source is not a unique one. The cognition of the morphology or the called fracture pattern of hydraulic fracturing is critical, which is virtually the conceptual model of fracturing. The conceptual model can directly impact the fracturing design and the way to evaluate actual fracturing.Using the proposed conceptual model, Fracturing Impact Volume (FIV), one can better explain what fracturing has done for unconventional plays and why it worked. With the proposed conceptual model and tossing aside the fracture network as the fracturing goal, many current fracturing practices can be improved significantly, and the way of production can be revised. This is a significant concept shifting in the unconventional fracturing arena. It is certainly not an easy task, but this paper makes a compelling case. With the FIV model in mind, the perception of "the greater the pumping rate, the higher net frac pressure, the better the fracturing to be" becomes unnecessary or makes little sense. This paper will decode the shale oil/gas flow mechanisms and demonstrate a better way to fracture and produce unconventional resources like shale oil/gas.

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Unconventional Reservoirs Require Unconventional Thinking: Using Fracturing Model as an Example

Wang¹,

Zhang

2019

Proceedings of the International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology Conference 2019

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An Engineered Approach to Hydraulically Fracture the Vaca Muerta Shale

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

An Overview of Recent Developments and Understandings of Unconventionals in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

An Overview of Recent Developments and Understandings of Unconventionals in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

Insights to Unconventional Reservoir Fracturing: A Transdisciplinary Methodological Approach

Unconventional Reservoirs Require Unconventional Thinking: Using Fracturing Model as an Example

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