Abstract

In this study, oil production in tight oil reservoir was declined due to high heterogeneity, complicated and complexity of reservoir of the low permeability reservoir ranges from 0.1 md to 5 md and reservoir porosity ranges from 10 to 18% lead to low fracture conductivity among the fractures. The challenge deal with this problem is to stimulate the reservoir of hydraulic fracturing for maximum oil production is necessary for the study. The application of the central composite design and response surface are the best tool in order to optimize the operating parameters based on the maximum net present value and through the series calculation, the optimal operating parameters of hydraulic fracturing have been determined of 46 bpm of injection rate, 88.5 min of the injection time and 0.002 ft/min0.5 of the leak-off coefficient and the maximum net present value of 46.5 $mm. Finally, the integrated model development of hydraulic fracturing includes of the normal faulting stress regime, fracturing fluid selection and fluid model, proppant selection, fracture geometry, pressure model, material balance, fracture conductivity and simulation production of fractured well and unstimulated well that have been presented in this study. With the using two dimensional Perkins-Kern-Nordgren fracture geometry models coupled with carter leak-off as the 2D PKN-C has been used to account for leak-off coefficient, spurt loss in term of power law parameters to propagate the fracture half-length, fracture width. The result of the fracture conductivity of fractured well at the fracture half-length of 1,940 ft and average fracture width of 0.32 in by series calculated propped fracture concentration of 1.63 lb/ft2 and fracture closure pressure of 4,842.59 psi to fracture conductivity of 6,200 md-ft, which value is measured by the laboratory experiment. The post-fracture production has been shown the fold of increase oil of 18.7 and the oil production rate of fractured well demonstrated much rising compared to oil production rate of unstimulated case.

Keywords:

2D Fracture geometry, design of experiment, integrated model development, optimization of operating parameters, response surface methodology,

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