The Effect of Viscous Fluid Properties on Excess Friction Pressures Measured During Hydraulic Fracture Treatments

Holditch, Stephen A.; Robinson, Brad M.; Ely, John; Rahim, Zillur

doi:10.2118/18208-pa

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“…The deliberate use of TSO fracturing was independently recognized as having considerable potential for stimulating higher-permeability reservoirs, the objective being to maximize fracture conductivities rather than to combat embedment. Some have argued 3,4 that the pressure responses ascribed to TSO's may simply be the result of increased slurry viscosity as proppant concentrations are increased in the fracture. Recent laboratory data and the field evidence presented in this paper challenge this view (see Appendix A).…”

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Tip Screenout Fracturing Applied to the Ravenspurn South Gas Field Development

Martins¹,

Leung

Jackson

et al. 1992

SPE Production Engineering

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Tip screenout (TSO) fracturing is a means of creating greater propped fracture widths and hence fracture conductivities than can be achieved by conventional fracture treatments. This allows more cost-effective stimulations of higher-permeability reservoirs, especially where non-Darcy pressure losses are significant. This paper presents a procedure to design TSO schedules and reviews field results from the Ravenspurn South gas field, which was developed between 1988 and 1989. Evidence is provided to support the view that TSO pressure responses are-indeed the result of processes occurring close to the fracture tip, rather than slurry-enhanced viscosity effects along the fracture length.

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confidence: 99%