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oa Connecting the Worlds of Hydraulic Fracturing and Production Evaluation
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, AAPG/EAGE Workshop on Tight Reservoirs in the Middle East, Oct 2013, cp-366-00014
- ISBN: 978-90-73834-62-0
Abstract
Hydraulic fracturing is the most successful method of production enhancement developed by the petroleum industry. Unfortunately, people involved in hydraulic fracturing often tend to focus on getting the proppant in the ground, an accomplishment by itself in many places, and forget the final target of production enhancement. To make matters worse, many companies leave the evaluation of the resulting performance to other people than the people who evaluated the fracture treatment.