CA2195966A1 - Method of fracturing and propping a formation - Google Patents

Method of fracturing and propping a formation

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CA2195966A1
CA2195966A1 CA2195966A CA2195966A CA2195966A1 CA 2195966 A1 CA2195966 A1 CA 2195966A1 CA 2195966 A CA2195966 A CA 2195966A CA 2195966 A CA2195966 A CA 2195966A CA 2195966 A1 CA2195966 A1 CA 2195966A1
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fracture interval
fracturing fluid
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Lloyd G. Jones
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/25—Methods for stimulating production
    • E21B43/26—Methods for stimulating production by forming crevices or fractures
    • E21B43/267—Methods for stimulating production by forming crevices or fractures reinforcing fractures by propping
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/14—Obtaining from a multiple-zone well
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/25—Methods for stimulating production
    • E21B43/26—Methods for stimulating production by forming crevices or fractures
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/25—Methods for stimulating production
    • E21B43/26—Methods for stimulating production by forming crevices or fractures
    • E21B43/261—Separate steps of (1) cementing, plugging or consolidating and (2) fracturing or attacking the formation

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Geochemistry & Mineralogy (AREA)
  • Consolidation Of Soil By Introduction Of Solidifying Substances Into Soil (AREA)
  • Devices And Processes Conducted In The Presence Of Fluids And Solid Particles (AREA)
  • Preparing Plates And Mask In Photomechanical Process (AREA)
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Abstract

A method for fracturing and propping a thick and/or non-homogeneous fracture interval (12) of a subterranean formation which is traversed by a wellbore(11). A
workstring (20) is lowered into the wellbore and a fracturing fluid (30) is flowed into one end of the fracture interval annulus (33a) (i,e., that portion of the well annulus (33) which lies adjacent the fracture interval) to initiate a fracture. The flow of fracturing fluid is ceased and a slurry (31) containing proppants is flowed into said one end of the fracture interval annulus. During flow of fracturing fluid and slurry into said one end of the annulus, both are delivered through alternate flowpaths (24) to different levels within said fracture interval.
Alternate slugs of fracturing fluid and slurry is continued through the same end of the annulus until all of the levels or zones within the fracture interval have been fractured and propped and in some instances, also gravel-packed.
CA002195966A 1994-08-05 1995-06-23 Method of fracturing and propping a formation Expired - Lifetime CA2195966C (en)

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US08/286,367 US5435391A (en) 1994-08-05 1994-08-05 Method for fracturing and propping a formation
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