Hydraulic Fracturing
Getting better value from fracturing treatments is exceptionally urgent under today's high cost of fracturing operations. Better fracturing results require use of latest technology. Can we really afford making fracturing decisions based on out-dated theories?
Our consultation services include all aspects of hydraulic fracturing, from candidate selection to treatment design, post-job evaluation and trouble shooting, and, production history matching.
Specialized software: We use several specialized proprietary software systems for our fracturing consultations.
Based mainly on actual field data, we have cracked the paradigms surrounding mechanisms of fracture initiation, growth (width, length and height), proppant transport, screen-out, and fracture closure. We offer new techniques for qualitative determination of fracture conductivity. Our technical recommendations are based on the following new technologies;
- 1.How real hydraulic fractures propagate within the formation
- 2.Impact of completion design on fracture propagation and production increase
- 3.Impact of shear fractures on fracture propagation, proppant transport and production increase
- 4.How to make qualitative assessment of fracture conductivity from analysis of fracturing pressure data
- 5.How to design effective mini-fracs
- 6.How to match fracture design with formation properties for better production
- 7.What causes the limited frac heights observed in many industrial treatments
- 8.Cause and effect analysis of screen-out
- 9.How to interpret fracturing pressure data and use it to make better on-site decisions
Our fracturing experiences include over 40 years in both Technology and Operations of hydraulic fracturing in US and outside, design, and execution of numerous fracturing treatments all over the world and over 30 technical publications.
We teach hydraulic fracturing in several universities in US and outside and have made numerous technical presentations on the subject to a worldwide audience. Our various workshops on hydraulic fracturing and production enhancement techniques are well-known for their high technical content and have been presented in many countries all over the world.