Sizing gelant treatments in hydraulically fractured production wells Academic Article

abstract

• Often, when production wells are stimulated by hydraulic fracturing, the fracture unintentionally breaks into water zones causing substantially increased water production. To correct this problem, we developed an engineering basis for designing and sizing gelant treatments in hydraulically fractured production wells. In these treatments, gelant penetrates a short distance from the fracture face into the porous rock associated with both water and hydrocarbon zones. Success for a given treatment requires that the gel reduce permeability to water much more than that to hydrocarbon. We present a simple 11-step procedure for sizing these gelant treatments. This procedure was incorporated in user-friendly graphicaluser-interface software that can be downloaded from our web site at http://baervan.nmt.edu/ResSweepEffic/reservoir.htm.

authors

• Liang, Jenn-Tai

published proceedings

• SPE Production and Facilities

author list (cited authors)

• Seright, R. S., Liang, J., & Seldal, M.

complete list of authors

• Seright, RS||Liang, J||Seldal, M

publication date

• November 1998

published in

• SPE Production and Operations  Journal

start page

• 223

end page

• 229

volume

• 13

issue

• 4