AN APPROACH TO IDENTIFYING THE OPTIMAL TIME TO INITIATE STIMULATION OPERATIONS.

📄 Project Abstract

Well stimulation is being utilized throughout the world in an attempt to increase oil and gas production rates by maximizing reservoir energy, increasing the effective wellbore radius, increasing permeability and conductivity around the near wellbore, and recently in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes. It is one aspect of well construction operations that has attracted a lot of research and publications over the years because of its scope and the fact that the operation increases the production of petroleum from the reservoir. This increase in production is achieved by removing the damage around the wellbore or by superimposing a highly conductive structure onto the formation. Several well stimulation techniques have been used; the commonly used processes include hydraulic fracturing, recompletion, matrix acidizing and fracture acidizing. As with many engineering processes, stimulation must culminate in the design, selection of the specific treatment and, of course, selection of can...