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Production and Completions
Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing
Aimed at practitioners who already fracture wells, this course examines the assumptions behind common fracturing concepts in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. It compares design approaches, covers rock and fluid mechanics in depth and shows how injection test and real-time data refine fracture parameters. Team exercises work through stimulation of a vertical well and the completion and stimulation choice for an unconventional horizontal well.
- Discipline
- Production and Completions
- Level
- Specialist
- Duration
- 5 days
- Formats
- Classroom, In-house
Every course can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation.
Who should attend
Production, operations and completions engineers with hands-on fracturing experience who want a deeper grasp of theory and application.
What participants will be able to do
- Apply rock mechanics principles to fracture design
- Analyse fracturing fluid behaviour and proppant transport
- Interpret pre-frac injection tests and real-time treatment data
- Evaluate factors that control post-frac conductivity and cleanup
- Judge the strengths and limits of current fracture models
Topics covered
- Rock mechanics for fracturing
- Fracturing fluid mechanics
- Proppant transport
- Injection test analysis
- Real-time treatment data
- Fracture conductivity and cleanup
- Unconventional horizontal completions