A little over 2 years ago, amid the flat farmlands of central
Oklahoma, Devon Energy sent a suite of measurement technologies downhole
to study how hydraulic fractures move between wells during the
stimulation treatment. The operation in the STACK tight-oil play was
what the industry calls a “science project.”
Once the field work was done, and as engineers got to work on the
data, they expected to uncover some new learnings. What they did not
expect was to find themselves on course to invent a new way to measure
the size of fractures, the speed of their growth, and the energy that it
took to form them. Knowing these parameters invites the use of the
scientific method to control fracture growth for optimal productivity.
https://pubs.spe.org/en/jpt/jpt-article-detail/?art=6764
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