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SpecialReport: Completion Technology
New Solution Injects Tracers
Into Perforating Clusters
Prior To Fracturing
By Christopher Squires, Brad Leonard, Shaun Geerts and Matthew Clay
HOUSTON-The benefits of pumping water- and oil-soluble tracers
during fracturing to analyze stimulation treatments have been proven in
every major shale basin. By metering liquid tracers into the flow stream
during fracturing operations and analyzing water and oil flowback samples
post-fracturing using gas chromatography mass spectronomy, tracer diagnostics
reveals critical insights to determine, for example, which intervals are
producing the highest or lowest returns of oil or water, and assess the degree
of communication between wells.
Rather than injecting tracers at the surface with the frac fluid-proppant
slurry during treatment, an alternative tracer injection method has been
developed that uses perforating guns with energetic propellant to force
unique tracers in solid form into a perforation cluster prior to initiating
fracturing operations.
In addition to creating a conductive pathway between the casing and the
targeted formation, directly injecting solid tracers through the perforating
gun offers several advantages compared with standard frac slurry tracer
injection, including the fact that the energetic propellent assists in perforation
cluster breakdown.
From a diagnostics perspective, perforation gun tracer (PGT) injected into
specific clusters can provide diagnostic data at individual cluster levels of resolution,
and oil and water returns that can be correlated to a known depth in
the wellbore. This is very important to operators interested in cluster
contributions from a specific stage or interval. Moreover, it is extremely
useful in refracture diagnostics to determine if newly fired clusters were able
to be stimulated and then produce along with broken-down, propped and
eroded perforations from the initial completion.
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