Fully Integrating a Hydraulic Fracturing Reservoir and Wellbore Simulator into a Practical Engineering Tool markresfraccom An Altira Group Portfolio Company We help operators maximize return on investment by optimizing frac design and field development with an emphasis in shale ID: 1022469
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1. SINGLE SIMULATIONSimulate the entire life cycle of an unconventional well in a Fully Integrating a Hydraulic Fracturing, Reservoir, and Wellbore Simulator into a Practical Engineering Toolmark@resfrac.comAn Altira Group Portfolio Company
2. We help operators maximize return on investment by optimizing frac design and field development, with an emphasis in shale.Our purposeCluster spacing, well spacing (lateral and vertical), limited-entry, proppant and fluid volume, parent/child mitigation, EOR, EGS, DFITs
3. Integrating a ‘true’ hydraulic fracturing simulator with reservoir simulation and poro/thermoelastic stressesAperture (in)Pressure (psi)Poroelastic Stress Change (psi)+Fracture Propagation3D Fracture Initiation & PropagationProppant Transport in Fracture & DistributionGeomechanicsPoroelastic StressThermoelastic StressReservoir FlowFull Compositional & Fluid Characterization+Robust Numerical Solution, Maximizes Accuracy for Field Applications
4. Example parent/child simulation
5. ResFrac capabilitiesFully 3D, fully numerical, general purposeFracture propagation, multiphase reservoir/fracture flow, wellbore friction, geomechanicsPoro- and thermoelastic stressesNon-Darcy rate-dependent pressure dropImplicitly applied well controls1D submesh method to adaptively refine mesh around fracturesGas adsorptionBlack oil, modified black oil, composition fluid modelsNon-Newtonian fluidsProppant settling (fractures and wellbore)Fracture closure and transition from propped to unpropped fracturesPerforation erosionScreenout at perforations and in fracturesSingle or dual porosity or DFNStress reorientation and fracture turningFracture collisions, coalescence, re-dilation Proppant remobilizationMultiple proppant typesDiverterSRV and permeability multipliers
6. ResFrac technical writeupDescribes every equation and parameter used in the codePublicly available on a permanent archival site https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1804/1804.02092.pdfNothing is black boxLiterature references Description of validation problems (SPE simulation studies, etc.)84+ page technical document
7. General InquiresInfo@resfrac.comThank youAn Altira Group Portfolio Company