Open AccessStimulation Technologies for Deep Well Completions
Publication year - 2003
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/903187
Subject(s) - well stimulation , geology , petroleum engineering , table (database) , natural gas field , fracture (geology) , work (physics) , mining engineering , engineering , computer science , geotechnical engineering , reservoir engineering , paleontology , natural gas , mechanical engineering , petroleum , data mining , waste management
The Department of Energy (DOE) is sponsoring the Deep Trek Program targeted at improving the economics of drilling and completing deep gas wells. Under the DOE program, Pinnacle Technologies is conducting a study to evaluate the stimulation of deep wells. The objective of the project is to assess U.S. deep well drilling & stimulation activity, review rock mechanics & fracture growth in deep, high pressure/temperature wells and evaluate stimulation technology in several key deep plays. An assessment of historical deep gas well drilling activity and forecast of future trends was completed during the first six months of the project; this segment of the project was covered in Technical Project Report No. 1. The second progress report covers the next six months of the project during which efforts were primarily split between summarizing rock mechanics and fracture growth in deep reservoirs and contacting operators about case studies of deep gas well stimulation