FRACTURING PROCESS BOOSTS DEVONIAN PRODUCTIVITY
The main purpose in the treatment of the Devonian formation is to successfully place the proppant strategically to produce as little non-hydrocarbon fluid as possible. In the Roepke Field in West Texas (Crane County), an operator was entering his first newly drilled well in the area. Difficulties in the completion for an offset operator included high treating pressures resulting in shortened pump schedules and low fracture conductivity. Issues for this operator included proper log analysis, perforating schemes, well-bore mechanics, and the main stimulation treatment design. After discussions with the service company, an alternative method of fracture treatment was successfully tried and adopted to solve these problems. This method included designing the treatment with calculated rock properties in a 3-D fracturing model pumping a high permeability regain fracturing fluid via tubing, which doubled as a temporary production string. This paper will detail how this problem was successfully addressed.