Leak-Off Coefficient Analysis in Stimulation Treatment Design

Abstract:

Hydraulic fracturing was first used in the late 1940s and has become a common technique to enhance the production of low-permeability formations.Hydraulic fracturing treatments were pumped into permeable formations with permeable fluids. This means that as the fracturing fluid was being pumped into the formation, a certain proportion of this fluid will being lost into formation as fluid leak-off. Therefore, leak-off coefficient is the most leading parameters of fracturing fluids. The accurate understanding of leak-off coefficient of fracturing fluid is an important guidance to hydraulic fracturing industry design. In this paper, a new field method of leak-off coefficient real time analysis model was presented based on instantaneous shut-in pressure (ISIP). More than 100 wells were fractured using this method in oil field. The results show that average liquid rates of post-fracturing was 22m³/d which double improvement compared with the past treatment wells. It had an important role for hydraulic fracturing stimulation treatment design in low permeability reservoirs and was proven that the new model for hydraulic fracturing treatment is greatly improved.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 933)
• Pages: 202-205
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.933.202
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Bo Cai*, Yun Hong Ding, Yong Jun Lu, Chun Ming He, Gui Fu Duan
• Keywords: Effective Porosity, Fluid, Hydraulic Fracturing, Leak-Off Coefficient, Low-Permeability Formations, Parameter

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