Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing

Introduction The Ambitious development of hard-to-recover reserves from low permeability fractured reservoirs, such as the Bazhenov horizons, has been started relatively recently in the Russian Federation, and, to date, it is in a stage of experimental commercial development. The outcomes of the experimental commercial developments suggest that the estimated well …

Effective well stimulation with hydraulic fracturing requires indepth engineering and technological research. This paper shows various ways of optimizing multistage fracturing operations in reservoirs with weak barriers with low stress contrasts. One of the solutions is to optimize the existing guar fluid systems to control the fracture height. The following …