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Pinedale unit MHF experiments. Final report. [Northern Green River Basin in Wyoming]

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Three MHF experiments have been performed in a tight reservoir in the Northern Green River Basin at a depth interval between 8,000 feet and 12,000 feet. A total of 894,190 gallons of fluid and 2,715,000 pounds of sand were pumped in three stages in two wells with the limited entry technique. Fluid viscosities were designed to give propped lengths of 1,000 to 1,500 feet and proppant sand beds having heights greater than 50 percent of the thickness of each sandstone fractured. The experiments included laboratory research to design limited entry with perforations through one and two strings of casing. Field data analysis to determine fracture gradients and extent of perforation erosion has been complicated by a dependence of friction pressure in tubular goods upon sand concentration and by an apparent large variation in minimum principal in-situ stress between sandstones simultaneously fractured with the limited entry technique. A high proppant concentration was used to assure that production would be limited to reservoir characteristics, rather than fracture conductivity. A comparison was made with results of prior hydraulic fractures propped with partial monolayer. Resulting production capacity to date has been only about one-fifth that projected in the National Gas Survey report. Evaluation of the resulting production capability and the cost of the hydraulic fracture treatment indicates that the stimulation technique employed is not commercially feasible at this time for the reservoir conditions tested..

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Last Updated September 29, 2016, 16:41 (LMT)
Created September 29, 2016, 16:41 (LMT)
Citation Randolph, P.L. ---- Roy Long, Pinedale unit MHF experiments. Final report. [Northern Green River Basin in Wyoming], 2016-09-29, https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/pinedale-unit-mhf-experiments-final-report-northern-green-river-basin-in-wyoming
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Poc Email Roy.long@netl.doe.gov
Point Of Contact Roy Long
Program Or Project KMD
Publication Date 1976-12-1