Tight Gas

Stimulation This unconventional energy source is a fast-growing market; however, effective development of low-permeability tight gas reser

FiberFRAC Proppant Distribution

Proppant settling can reduce the deliverability of the fracture, causing a significant negative impact on productivity. FiberFRAC proppant distribution technology

• decouples proppant transport from fluid viscosity to reduce settling
• creates a fiber-based network within the fracturing fluid, providing a mechanical means to transport, suspend, and place the proppant
• can be tailored to reservoir conditions to optimize fracture geometry
• maintains good proppant transport, even at high temperatures, using a low-viscosity fluid.

In addition to fracture height containment, the retained proppant pack permeability can be significantly increased because of the lower polymer loading required. When less polymer is used, more of the propped fracture contributes to production, yielding a longer effective fracture half-length.

ThermaFOAM High Temperature CO₂ Fracturing Fluid

The future of high-temperature brownfield CO2 fracturing

The ThermaFOAM CO₂ foam system for high-temperature wells is a unique chemical system specifically designed for fracture applications in wells with bottomhole static temperatures (BHSTs) between 200 and 300 degF [93 and 149 degC]. The ThermaFOAM system is a CO₂-compatible product that uses the CO₂-polymer interaction to create stable and robust foam systems that allow polymer-loading reductions of up to 50%.

The reduction in polymer loading, combined with improved well performance and the elimination of the need for a crosslinking gel, has resulted in a fluid system that maximizes cleanup of the proppant pack within the fracture.

Significant reductions in time to sales can typically be expected for wells fractured using the ThermaFOAM CO₂ foam system compared with wells stimulated using conventional fracturing technology.

Fracturing and Completion Services
More choices. More reservoir contact.

Contact fracturing and completion services maximize reservoir contact by offering the most efficient and effective reservoir stimulation service for each well. This portfolio of services offers a wide variety of proven reservoir stimulation technologies; each choice can be enhanced with real-time measurement options.
Conventional

Wells completed conventionally require separate trips into the well to fracture stimulate and isolate each stage. Conventional solutions can be divided into two techniques: cased hole completions and openhole completions.
Intervention

Wells completed through the intervention Contact category fracture stimulate and isolate multiple stages per intervention. The following services are used.
Abrasive Perforating & Fracturing | Fracturing through Coiled Tubing | Wireline-enabled Perforating & Fracturing
Permanent

Wells completed through the permanent Contact category fracture stimulate and isolate multiple stages in one pumping operation using components installed as a part of the permanent completion. Services include the following.
Multistage Stimulation | Multistage Fracturing
Dynamic

The dynamic Contact category offers fluid-enabled tool-free reservoir of multiple stages in one continuous operation.
Shale Gas Dynamic Fluid Diversion

Microseismic Hydraulic Fracture Monitoring

StimMAP services for hydraulic fracturing monitoring record microseismic activity in real time during the fracturing process. A full range of software provides modeling, survey design, microseismic detection and location, uncertainty analysis, data integration, and visualization for interpretation, wherever and whenever decisions must be made. Computer imagery is used to monitor the activity in 3D space relative to the location of the fracturing treatment. Then the monitored activities are animated to show progressive fracture growth and the subsurface response to pumping variations.

The StimMAP service uses Petrel seismic-to-simulation software to provide accurate characterization of the locations, geometry, and dimensions of a hydraulic fracture system. Advanced processing techniques provide fracture characterization that enhances fracture models and reservoir characterization for production simulation.

Microseismic monitoring, which delivers information about the changing stress of a reservoir can be used to enhance reservoir development in tight gas completions, fault mapping, reservoir imaging, waterflood monitoring, drilling waste disposal, and thermal recovery.