Flowback and Deliverability Analysis in the Montney for Optimal Well Design
In September 2021, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) through a new pressure and deliverability testing directive issued new guidance for inline testing to align with the current practice for conducting these tests. Best practices of these techniques are presented for calculations for industry-submitted inline testing
for flowback analysis and industry-submitted Absolute Open Flow deliverability analysis. Results are compared to previously published best practices in the Canadian Unconventional Montney.
The new approach is based on obtaining dynamic fracture dimensions such as fracture half-length and height, conductivity, associated matrix permeability, and well productivity index estimates. This information is supporting evaluation on reserves and near wellbore communication. Analytical and numerical method descriptions are provided that has proven to have significant implications for treatment stage design and reservoir characterization.
80 field case studies are presented for multi-stage hydraulic fractured horizontal wells in the Canadian Unconventional Montney. Comparisons are also provided for Inline testing and deliverability- derived productivity index.
This workflow lends itself to other resource plays.
Registration closes on Friday, October 11 at 8AM.
Date/Time
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Registration: 11:45 AM MT
Start Time: 12:00 PM MT
End Time: 1:00 PM MT
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, Alberta Energy Regulator
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, and 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 recently received the Canadian SPE Regional Management and Service Awards. He has authored and/or coauthored more than 50 papers in the last 10 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.
**Please Note
Lunch will be served. Please be sure to include your dietary restrictions during the online registration process so we can do our best to accommodate.
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