Overview

.AHF, or Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing

About the Course

 This advanced course is intended for those who have a working knowledge of hydraulic fracturing applications and wish to further their education. The course gives specifics on and discusses fracturing principles that are typically accepted or presumptive in fracturing applications. Additionally highlighted are the benefits and drawbacks of various fracture treatment design strategies. After working on real fracturing cases design and analysis throughout the course, participants should complete the advanced course with a greater grasp of the hydraulic fracturing process and how it relates to post-frac well performance.

Target Audience

Production, activities, and accomplishments engineers that are currently involved in hydraulic fracturing applications and are interested in learning more about the theoretical and practical uses of the process. Engineers with some fracturing experience or those who have taken the PetroSkills Intermediate level Hydraulic Fracturing Applications course are intended for this course.

 Course Objectives

 Participants will pick up skills in:

•  Improve your knowledge of rock mechanics and characteristics as they pertain to applications for fracturing. better comprehend the mechanics of fracturing fluids and proppant transport
• Improved knowledge of the variables affecting hydraulic fracturing applications will allow for more efficiently designing fracturing treatments.
• To define fracture parameters and enhance frac treatment design, use pre-frac injection test data and real-time fracturing treatment data in fracturing applications.
• Think about the variables affecting well cleanout and post-frac fracture conductivity
• Recognize the benefits and drawbacks of the current fracture models and hydraulic fracturing technologies. To accommodate a larger range of reservoir types and conditions, broaden the uses of fracturing.

Course Outlines

•  Rock characteristics and process-related fracture mechanics Mechanical fluid fractures
• Proppant movement
• Analysis of the pre-frac injection test Fracture repair
• Monitoring and quantifying fractures liquid leakage
• Considerations for refracturing
• Analyses of current fracture modeling programs Performance assessment of post-frac wells