Pinedale unit MHF experiments. Final report
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:7333431
Three MHF experiments have been performed in a tight reservoir in the Northern Green River Basin at depths between 8,000 and 12,000 feet. A total of 894,190 gallons of fluid and 2,715,000 pounds of sand were pumped in three stages in two wells with the limited entry technique. Fluid viscosities were designed to give propped lengths of 1,000 to 1,500 feet and proppant sand beds having heights greater than 50 percent of the thickness of each sandstone fractured. The experiments included laboratory research to design limited entry with perforations through one and two strings of casing. Field data analysis to determine fracture gradients and extent of perforation erosion has been complicated by a dependence of friction pressure in tubular goods upon sand concentration and by an apparent large variation in minimum principal in-situ stress between sandstones simultaneously fractured with the limited entry technique. A high proppant concentration was used to assure that production would be limited to reservoir characteristics, rather than fracture conductivity. Comparison was made with results of prior hydraulic fractures propped with a partial monolayer. Resulting production capacity to date has been only about one-fifth that projected in the National Gas Survey report. Evaluation of the resulting production capability and the cost of the hydraulic fracture treatmnet indicates that the stimulation technique employed is not commercially feasible at this time for the reservoir conditions tested. 10 fig, 6 tables.
- Research Organization:
- El Paso Natural Gas Co., Tex. (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EY-76-C-02-0033
- OSTI ID:
- 7333431
- Report Number(s):
- BERC-0033-7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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