SPIDRlive® captures and streams high-quality wellhead pressure data

Overview

During a fracturing campaign of four wells on a pad in Howard County, Texas, an operator used the SmartFleet® fracture monitoring system to measure, visualize and act on frac behavior. Because there were 10 offset wells in proximity, the operator opted to install a SPIDRlive® self-powered data retriever on each well to enhance this observation initiative. SPIDRlive service live-streamed data to the SmartFleet system frac van, providing live visualization of offset well fracturing interactions during target well operations.

Challenge

The operator sought detailed subsurface fracture behavior information from 10 offset wells without the costs and risks of running downhole pressure gauges.

Solution

The SPIDRlive system provided the means to capture and stream high-quality wellhead pressure data that enabled additional identification and modeling of frac interaction events happening around the fracked target well(s).

Using the SPIDRlive system for fracture-driven interaction (FDI) monitoring is a highly cost-effective means for monitoring offset wells in proximity to target wells being fractured, even those owned by different operators on different leases. The high resolution and accuracy of the quartz sensor along with a one-second sample rate provided ample data for determining offset wells for FDI. This data was live streamed to the SmartFleet system dashboard, helping avoid the expenditure and potential dangers of running downhole pressure gauges.

Result

The SPIDRlive data retrievers were easily installed on each offset and target well, thereby “blanketing” potential areas of FDI. This allowed the operator to identify these interactions while monitoring the SmartFleet system dashboard.