Challenging Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test Compliance Method in the Montney
Current practice for conducting minifrac or diagnostic fracture injection tests has been changing with time. The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has a pressure and deliverability testing directive that has guidance on those tests. This guidance was updated in late 2021. Many operators from the Canadian Montney shale play submit minifracs to AER, 80 of these minifracs were summarized statistically in this presentation. Closure, reservoir pressure, and permeability were the main analyzed parameters in the presentation scope.
Requirements for pressure and deliverability tests are set out by this newly updated directive. Industry uses minifrac in horizontal wells with multistage fracture treatments when developing unconventional reservoirs. Closure, initial reservoir pressure is commonly being determined with the common well test. Closure pressure by Compliance method is challenged in this presentation.
In-person registration closes on May 20 at 8am MST.
Date/Time
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Registration: 11:45 AM MST
Start Time: 12:00 PM MST
End Time: 1:00 PM MST
Location
Calgary Petroleum Club | 319 5 Ave SW, Calgary, AB, T2P 0L5
*This event will be hosted in-person only, and will not be recorded.
Speaker Bio
Claudio Virues
Senior Reservoir Engineer, AER
Claudio Virues is a senior reservoir engineer at Alberta Energy Regulator. Prior to that, he was a senior reservoir engineer at Nexen Energy ULC a wholly owned subsidiary of CNOOC. Previously, he worked for Encana Corporation as reservoir, production, reserves engineer. His research interests include flowback and interference analysis, hydraulic fracturing modeling and geomechanics, value integration of geophysics and engineering, rate and pressure transient analysis, production forecast and reserves estimation. Virues served SPE as a chair and member of numerous committees. He has authored and/or coauthored more than 50 papers in the last 4 years. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Naval Engineering and Marine Architecture from Buenos Aires Technological University, a M.Sc. degree in Reservoir Engineering from Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (B.A.I.T.) in Argentina, an M.Eng. Degree in Chemical and Petroleum engineering with honors from University of Calgary, Alberta and an Executive MBA from Haskayne Business School from University of Calgary.
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