Fluid Flow and Rock Mechanics Aspects of Hydraulically Fractured Wells
Disciplines: Reservoir
Course Description
Topics include:
- Intro to World Gas Production, Natural Gas Production
- Fluid Flow/Testing of Hydraulically Fractured Wells
- Finite and infinite conductivity
- Testing of tight formation
- Fracturing
- In situ stress
- Rock mechanics
- Fracture mechanics
- Effect of perforations
- Hydraulic Fracture Design, Proppants, Fluids
- Real Time Analysis
- Fracturing High Permeability Formations
- Frac pack
- Real time analysis
- Fracture Diagnostic Testing
- Original techniques
- G-function analysis
- Before closure analysis
- After closure analysis
- Fluid Flow in Horizontal Wells
- Flow regimes
- Effect of skin factor
- Comparison to vertical wells and fractured vertical wells
- Fractured Horizontal Wells
- Rock mechanics
- Fluid flow
- Transverse versus longitudinal fractures
- Impact of various parameters
- Unconventional Reservoirs
- Tight gas
- CBM
- Shale
- Decline Curve Analysis/Rate Analysis
- Conventional decline curves
- Decline curves for shale
Learning Level
Advanced
Course Length
5 Days
Why Attend
Course participants will be able to:
- Design dimensions of hydraulic fracture from reservoir engineering point of view.
- Able to analyze test for hydraulically fractured wells.
- Analyze diagnostic tests.
- Use decline curve to analyze production data.
- Analyze real time data.
Who Attends
Production, stimulation and reservoir engineers.
Special Requirements
Participants should have educational background in basic fluid flow through porous media. Prior understanding of testing techniques is important. Some experience or exposure to the topic would be helpful. Students must bring their own laptops.
CEUs
4.0 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this 5-day course.
Cancellation Policy
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Instructor
M. Y. Soliman is the Chairman of the Bob L. Herd Petroleum Engineering department at Texas Tech University. He is also the George P. Livermore Professor of Petroleum Engineering. Prior to joining Texas Tech University, Professor Soliman worked for Halliburton Energy for more than 30 years in several technical and managerial positions. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Houston teaching production engineering. He is a distinguished member of SPE and a licensed professional engineer by the State of Texas. He has authored and co-authored more than 160 technical papers and holds 17 US patents. He was an invited speaker at numerous forums, ATWs and conferences.
Professor Soliman wrote chapters on testing, fluid flow and fracturing in several published books. M. Soliman received a BS in Petroleum Engineering with top honors from Cairo University in 1971. He earned MS and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1975 and 1978 respectively. His areas of interest include well test analysis, diagnostic testing, fracturing and numerical simulation.