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Calibrated Fracture-Growth Models Optimize Fracture Staging in Wells with Large Pay Intervals
The Jonah field in Wyoming is a giant gas field producing from the low-permeability (0.024 md) Lance formation, a 2,800+ ft stacked sequence of 20 to 50 lenticular fluvial channel sands interbedded wi
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Precise Fracture Placement Increases Production and Optimizes Reservoir Drainage
Without proper isolation methods, fracturing uncased horizontal wells is impractical. The SurgiFracÆ service provides fast and precise placement of fractures in deviated and horizontal wellbores witho
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High-Temperature, Low-Permeability Wells Require Low Gel Frac Fluids to Protect from Formation Damage
A customizable, salt-compatible, low-polymer, organometallic crosslinked-gel (CMHPG) fracturing fluid (The SiroccoSM system) is designed for use in high-temperature wells.
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High-Temperature Zonal Isolation During Horizontal-Well Stimulation Yields Three-Fold Increase in Production Rate vs. Vertical Well
A customer in south Texas faced the challenge of completing a deep, non-cemented, horizontal well for the purpose of increasing production in tight sand formations. The job called for isolation of mul
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Dual-Well Monitoring Enhances Microseismic Imaging of Hydraulic-Fracture Stimulation
In long laterals, a single monitoring well may not detect microseisms over the entire well. The use of two monitoring wells improves detection over the entire length of the lateral well. To achieve op
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Fluid System Enables Effective Stimulation in Deep, Hot Reservoirs
A new high-temperature, high-density fracturing fluid system, designed by Halliburton’s Saudi Arabia Production Enhancement team, in conjunction with experts in Duncan, Oklahoma, and Houston, recently
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Use of Flow Through Bridge Plugs Result in 18% Increase Production
The Lance formation in the Jonah field, Green River Basin, in Southwest Wyoming, consists of several hundred feet of stacked thin (5 to 50 ft) lenticular overpressured very-tight gas sands. Reservoir
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Completion System Allows Interventionless Stimulation Treatments in Horizontal Wells
While neither of the examples below are tight gas, these technologies are often used in tight gas low permeability wells. Operators often encounter problems in wells with multiple pay zones when attem
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Accurately Predict the Outcome of Production Enhancement Efforts
Integration of reservoir description (petrophysics), reservoir performance and simulations are used to predict the outcome of production-enhancement efforts on reservoir performance and optimize the f
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Treating Tight-Gas Pay Intervals Individually
Tight-gas operators in Southern Alberta, Canada, are challenged with recovering trapped gas in underpressured low temperature sandstone reservoirs from shallow gas wells on tight spacing on very envir
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Cumulative Production Gain Exceeding 50% Using Chemically Treating Proppant
Production rates from four offset wells were compared. The completions were similar with the exception of one that had the proppant treated with a conductivity enhancement chemical. Compared to the av
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Microseismic Utilized in the Wilcox Sand, Burgos Basin, Northern Mexico
Pemex is actively developing the Wilcox tight-gas sands in the Arcabu-Culebra Field in the Burgos Basin, Northern Mexico.
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Multistage Pinpoint Fracturing in Low-Permeability Formations Lost Hills Field, California
The pinpoint fracturing (PPF) method creates perforations by pumping abrasive slurry down coiled tubing through a jetting nozzle while the main treatment is pumped down the annulus casing/coiled-tubin
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Accurate Fracture Placement in Horizontal Wellbore Completions With Minimal or No Intervention Required
A new completion service offers a simple and reliable options for completing horizontal wellbores using either a mechanical-shift procedure or a ball-drop procedure to allow accurate fracture placemen
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Engineered WaterFrac Service for Ultra-Low-Permeability Formations
New technologies are increasing the effectiveness of water-frac treatments resuting in longer-term production increases. Water-frac treatments normally use friction-reduced water as the fracturing flu
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Reduce Nonproductive Completion Time and Increase Production Using Flow-Through Composite Frac Plugs (FTCFPs)
Flow-through composite frac plugs (FTCFPs) can serve as an effective alternative to traditional isolation methods or to induced stress diversion. FTCFPs allow all zones to produce during the completio
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Microseismic Provides Drainage and Fracturing Optimization Data
The Cotton Valley tight-gas sands in the Oakhill and Carthage fields, east Texas, found between 8,000 ft and 11,000 ft, have permeabilities ranging from 0.005–0.01 md. Successive infill drilling progr
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Geo-Pilot® Dirigo System Delivers Record High Dogleg Solution
In this mature field, the operator faced the challenge of drilling through a formation where the overlying soft shale section had made it extremely difficult to achieve good build rates in the past, a
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Mar 2013
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Shell and Halliburton performed first rigless abandonment of offshore wells in North Sea
Rigless plug and abandonment on unmanned installations in North Sea
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Oct 2012
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Halliburton developed a more efficient way to recomplete heavy oil wells in Canada
Canadian Natural Resources increased production
with novel Halliburton re-perforation method
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Jul 2012
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