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If '''TSO Design''' option is '''OFF''' and during conventional design critical dry-to-wet width ratio, '''δ''', was reached we stop addition of proppant at this place and show the warning message: | If '''TSO Design''' option is '''OFF''' and during conventional design critical dry-to-wet width ratio, '''δ''', was reached we stop addition of proppant at this place and show the warning message: | ||
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Also if concentration of injected slurry became larger then defined by user maximum concentration we stop addition of proppant and show the warning message: | Also if concentration of injected slurry became larger then defined by user maximum concentration we stop addition of proppant and show the warning message: | ||
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==Comparison study== | ==Comparison study== |
Revision as of 09:45, 12 October 2018
Contents
Brief
fracDesign is a tool for designing a hydraulic fracture treatment in pengtools.
For the given set of reservoir, fluid and proppant properties fracDesign calculates the pumping schedule which will create the optimal fracture geometry to achieve maximum well’s productivity.
fracDesign algorithm is based on widely used fracture PKN and KGD models (see [1]. Pumping schedule realizes the optimal fracture geometry and assures uniform placement of the proppant (see [2]). If the optimum placement cannot be realized by traditional means, a TSO design option is available. Like any other model fracDesign inevitably uses a number of mathematical idealizations.
fracDesignis available online at www.pengtools.com.
Typical applications
- Design mode: Calculating the pumping schedule required to achive optimal fracture geometry
- Providing initial guess pumping schedule for more complex fracture simulators
- Optimization of hydraulic fracture design with Unified Fracture Design[2]
- Simulation mode: Simulation of the fracture geometry based on the given pumping schedule with PKN and KGD models
- TSO design
- Sensitivity studies: By modifying various input parameters, an intuitive feel for their relative importance in treatment design and final fractured well performance can be rapidly acquired
Math & Physics
- - hydraulic maximum fracture width PKN (ref[1] eq 9.53)
- - hydraulic maximum fracture width KGD (ref[1] eq 9.55)
- - plain strain modulus
- - hydraulic average fracture width
- - shape factor PKN (ref[1] eq 9.10)
- - shape factor KGD (ref[1] eq 9.24)
- - propped fracture width
- - mass balance equation (ref[1] eq 8.1)
- - injected volume into one fracture wing
- - the area of one face of one wing for rectangular fracture shape
- - the area of one face of one wing for elliptic fracture shape
- - volume of fluid contained in one fracture wing
- - volume of fluid leak-off to formation through the two created fracture surfaces of one wing
- - mass balance equation (ref[2] eq 4.6)
- - fluid efficiency
Opening time distribution factor KL
Nolte opening time distribution factor KL
- - (ref[1] eq 8.36)
Carter opening time distribution factor KL
- (ref [2] eq 4.8)
where:
- (ref [2] eq 4.9)
and:
- (ref [2] eq 4.9)
Nolte G-function for opening time distribution factor KL
- (ref [2] eq 4.12)
where:
Pumping schedule
According to Nolte[3] the schedule is derived from the following assumptions:
- the whole length created should be propped
- at the end of pumping, the proppant distribution in the fracture should be uniform
- the proppant schedule should be of the form of a delayed power law with the Nolte's exponent and the fraction of pad being equal
- - Nolte exponent
- - pad pumping time
- - proppant concentration at the end of pumping
- - slurry concentration vs time
- - ramping stage duration
- - ramping stage slurry concentration
- - conversion form slurry concentration (proppant mass per unit of injected slurry) to clean concentration (proppant mass per unit of injected clean/base/"neat" fluid)
Flow Diagram
Design mode
Simulation mode
Workflow
Design mode
- Input the fracture height, hf
- Run optiFrac to get optimum xf and wf, prop
- Calculate maximum and average hydraulic fracture widths : wf,hydr,max and wf,hydr,avg
- Calculate opening time distribution factor, KL
- Solve mass balance equation for total pumping time, te
- Calculate fluid efficiency, η
- Calculate Nolte's exponent, ε
- Calculate pad time, tpad
- Calculate proppant concentration at the end of pumping, ce
- Calculate slurry concentration vs time curve, c vs t
- Set the number of stages, Nstage
- Calculate slurry concentration at each stage, cstage
Simulation mode
- Input the fracture height, hf
- Input the pumping schedule, dt, cstage for each Nstage
- For each stage duration, dt
- Set the xf
- Calculate maximum and average hydraulic fracture widths : wf,hydr,max and wf,hydr,avg
- Calculate opening time distribution factor, KL
- Solve mass balance equation for total pumping time, tstage
- Iterate until tstage=dt
- Move to the next stage
Note that: Distribution of the proppant in the fracture is not modelled in the simulation mode. Only geometry evolution and byproducts are simulated under assumption that proppant is uniformly distributed in fracture.
TSO Design
TSO effect is supported by the fracDesign using the TSO Design option.
TSO occurs when dry-to-wet fracture width ratio, δ, is becoming larger than some critical value set by the user.
Dry-to-wet fracture width ratio, δ, is specified by user in the Fracture tuning input section. The value near 0.7 is recommended in Economides, Oligney, Valko (2002).
If TSO Design option is ON and during conventional design critical dry-to-wet width ratio, δ, was reached fracture length stop to grow and width became a function of injected proppant. Then we add additional step with injected concentration equivalent to critical dry-to-wet width ratio. Duration of this step is calculated in order to place all the proppant.
If TSO Design option is OFF and during conventional design critical dry-to-wet width ratio, δ, was reached we stop addition of proppant at this place and show the warning message:
” Tip screen-out occurs. Not all the proppant is placed. Try TSO design.”
Also if concentration of injected slurry became larger then defined by user maximum concentration we stop addition of proppant and show the warning message:
” Maximum concentration reached. Not all the proppant is placed. Try TSO design”
Comparison study
Main features
- PKN and KGD fracture geometry models
- optiFrac workflow on fracture geometry optimization
- Slurry concentration versus time pumping schedule as plot and table
- Fracture length and width profiles vs time plots
- Net pressure profiles vs time as plot and table
- Practical pumping constrains and Fracture tuning options
- Detailed output table with calculated fracture design parameters
- Sensitivity option with benchmark to potential
- Simulation mode: calculating the fracture geometry from the given pumping schedule
- "New model" button resets input values to the default values.
- Switch between Metric and Field units.
- Save/load models to the files and to the user’s cloud.
- Export pdf report containing input parameters, calculated values and the chart.
- Share models to the public cloud or by using model’s link.
- Continue your work from where you stopped: last saved model will be automatically opened.
- Download the chart as an image or data and print (upper-right corner chart’s button).
Nomenclature
- = surface area, m2
- = clean concentration (proppant mass per unit of injected clean/base/"neat" fluid), kg/m3
- = leak-off coefficient, m/s0.5
- = slurry concentration (proppant mass per unit of injected slurry), kg/m3
- = time step, sec
- = plain strain modulus, Pa
- = Young's Modulus, Pa
- = height, m
- = opening time distribution factor, dimensionless
- = rheology consistency index, Pa*sn
- = mass, kg
- = rheology flow behavior index, dimensionless
- = slurry injection rate for one wing, m3/sec
- = spurt loss coefficient, m
- = pumping time, sec
- = volume, m3
- = width, m
- = fracture half-length, m
Greek symbols
- = dry to wet width ratio at the end of pumping, usually 0.5-0.7
- = Nolte exponent, dimensionless
- = fluid efficiency, fraction
- = geometric factor in vertical direction, dimensionless
- = Poisson's ratio, dimensionless
- = porosity, fraction
- = 3.1415
- = density, kg/m3
Subscripts
- avg = average
- e = end of pumping
- f = fracture
- gross = gross
- hydr = hydraulic
- i = injected
- KGD = Khristianovic-Geertsma-de Klerk geometry
- L = leak-off
- max = maximum
- net = net
- pad = pad
- PKN = Perkins-Kern-Nordgren geometry
- prop = propped or proppant
- r = reservoir
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Valko, Peter; Economides, Michael J. (1995). Hydraulic fracture mechanics. Texas A & M University: John Wiley and Sons.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Economides, Michael J.; Oligney, Ronald; Valko, Peter (2002). Unified Fracture Design: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice. Alvin, Texas: Orsa Press.
- ↑ Nolte, K.G. (1986). "Determination of Proppant and Fluid Schedules From Fracturing-Pressure Decline" (SPE-13278-PA). Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Pages in category "FracDesign"
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