Tight Reservoirs
–Journal of Petroleum Technology
The low-oil-price environment continues to challenge and pressure our industry to reduce costs and optimize production. While cost reductions and efficiency improvements are always the primary focus during downturns such as we are now experiencing, history tells us that many technology and application breakthroughs have been developed in such periods. This is also a time for conducting or supporting technical studies that can provide insight on how operators can optimize production--especially from unconventional-resource developments. In the meantime, major operators are increasingly stepping out, supporting development of alternative, unconventional energy sources, such as natural gas production from gas hydrates, as the industry looks to the future. With reduced new unconventional well activity, practices such as frac-hit mitigation--pressurization of parent wells during child-well fracture stimulation--have become increasingly important to reduce parent-well proppant cleanouts as well as to maximize production from both parent and child wells.
Journal of Petroleum Technology
January, 2021
- Country:
- North America > Canada (0.18)
- Geology:
- Geology > Geological Subdiscipline > Geomechanics (0.34)
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