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COSL is equipped with company-level expert teams for geological reservoirs, fracturing technology, liquid and tools in terms of the low-permeability fracturing service, and provides professional technical support on site through geological research of reservoir, experiments and study on process technology.
Also, COSL has cold-temperature fresh-water based, high-temperature fresh-water based, seawater based fracturing fluid system, clean fracturing fluid system, and multi-effect variable viscosity fracturing fluid system, can complete the integrated operation of staged fracturing for horizontal wells, for vertical wells and directional wells as well as fracture testing according to geological reservoirs and the needs of customers.
The long well section of horizontal well is made with a number of hydraulic fractures by staged fracturing, then discharge the fluid rapidly after fracturing, and transform the reservoir by staged fracturing of horizontal well efficiently with low damages, thus improving the production of a single well as well as achieving the target of improving the yield. The technical difficulty of fracturing lies in the selection of staged fracturing technology. The most commonly used technology includes the staged fracturing by openhole packers and by hydraulic jet, etc.
Technology Type | Staged fracturing by openhole packers | Staged fracturing by hydraulic jet |
Technical Indicators |
1. Resistance to pressure of 70MPa, temperature resistance of 170℃; 2. Maximum number of transformed sections of 20 (vary according to the size of string). |
1. Operating pressure differential ≤ 60MPa; 2. Pressure drop of nozzle ≤ 40MPa. |
The staged fracturing of horizontal well by openhole packers is applicable to the stimulation and reconstruction of a wide range of oil-gas wells, and this technology is simple, low in costs and time-saving. Currently, this technology has been widely used on land oilfields and offshore oilfields, with significant stimulation efficiency.
The staged fracturing technology by hydraulic jet is applicable to open-hole completion, screen pipe completion and cased hole completion, and its applicable well depth is less than 5,000 m. This process does not require lifting or running the string frequently, simplifies the process, saves the construction time; the down-hole tool string is simply, with high security, and the entire process does not require the mechanical packing device, and could reduce the operational risks and costs.
·Supporting Tools: Ball activated fracturing sleeve, differential pressure sliding sleeve, ball seat, packer, spray gun, etc. Accompany Software: Tubular column stress analysis software
·Accompany Software: Tubular column stress analysis software
The horizontal well of tight sand gas has tested for 7 well-times by adopting the staged fracturing by openhole packers, with the fracturing stimulation 10 times better more than that of vertical well and the directional well in terms of the open flow capacity after the fracturing, with obvious stimulation effect.
Well Name | Date | Open Flow Capacity,104m3/d |
A-1H | 2016.9 | 2.85 |
A-4H | 2016.11 | 4.8 |
A-5H | 2016.11 | 18.3 |
B-3H | 2016.8 | 4.71 |
A-3H | 2016.06 | 7.6 |
B-1H | 2016.11 | 2.43 |
C1-H | 2015.11 | 9.2 |
If multiple layers within the same wellbore need fracturing at the same time, while the fracture pressure of the target layer varies greatly, it is required to run a string and adopt multi-stage packer setting to separate the target layers, and then complete multiple fracturing tasks at one time. This technology is targeted, effective with high reliability, and could control the injection rate of each stage and each layer accurately, which is applicable to the layered operations with a certain distance between perforated layer/section. At present, the technology has been widely used in land oilfields, with an obvious stimulation effect after fracturing.
Number of fractured layers ≤ 12;
Construction displacement: 2.5~4.5m³/min;
Volume of added sand in each layer ≤ 50m³.
In terms of the low-permeability oilfields recovered by multi-layered system, the reservoir profile and plane are seriously heterogeneous, with great differences between layers, the combined fracturing would result in uneven reservoir reconstruction and sand plugging after fracturing, while the layered fracturing string of packer could be separated manually, which could avoid contacting the edge and bottom water, coal bed and fault while improving the construction efficiency and success rate significantly so as to reconstruct the reservoir thoroughly.
The fracturing technology of separate layers by packers is applicable to the vertical wells and directional wells, with well temperature of ≤100℃, and construction pressure of ≤70MPa.
·Auxiliary Tools: Packers, sliding sleeve, hydraulic anchor, safety joint, bottom valve of fracturing string, etc.
The tight sand gas site has utilized the layered fracturing technology for vertical and directional wells to test on site for 2 well-times since 2013, which fractures 4 layers continuously without moving the string successfully. The combined recovery capacity is up to 16,000 m3/day after fracturing, with an obvious stimulation effect, and the time efficiency of single well is increased by 75%.
The fracturing testing integration technology is a technique that completes the perforation, routine testing and fracturing construction at one-off string in the fracturing development of oil-gas oilfields. Such string is utilized to reduce the secondary pollution to the formation by killing fluid, and could compare the fracturing results before and after the transformation.
The fracturing testing integration technology is applicable to the fracturing transformation of exploration wells requiring routine tests, which can be used to compare the results obtained before and after such transformation; also applicable to low-permeability gas well in particular, which is demanding for down-hole operation technology, with large difficulty in implementation and higher construction costs.
Currently, this technology has been applied successfully on the sea for 20 well-times, which lowered the cost of fracturing operations, and achieved better economic benefits as well.
The low-temperature fresh water based fracturing fluid is a water-base gel fracturing fluid based on low-concentration guar gum, and the densifier refers to the low concentration hydroxypropyl guar gum, with low residue contents. According to the low porosity, low permeability, low pressure and lower temperature feature of the low-permeability reservoir and tight sand gas reservoir, this fracturing fluid system solves the problems of high residue contents in regular fracturing fluid, unthorough gel breaking at low temperature, low efficiency in flow-back and serious damages to water lock.
The low-temperature fresh water based fracturing fluid system is featured with: powerful solid-carrying capacity, thorough gel breaking under low temperature condition, high anti-swelling rate, ultra-low surface tension, high flow-back efficiency and outstanding reservoir protection performance.
NO. | Items | Industry Standard | System Index | |
1 | Apparent viscosity of base fluid, mPa • s | 10~40 | 18~45 | |
2 | Crosslinking time, s | 15~60 | 30~60 | |
3 | Capacity of resistance to high temperature and shearing | Apparent viscosity, mPa • s | ≥50 | 160 |
4 | Surface tension, mN/m | ≤28.0 | 18.6 | |
5 | Matrix permeability damage ratio, % | ≤30 | 16~22 |
·Applicable range of reservoir temperature: ≤90℃;
·Applicable to low-permeability and tight sandstone oil-gas reservoirs.
From 2013 to 2016, about 600 layers of low-temperature fresh water based fracturing fluid system were successfully applied in tight gas field fracturing.
A total of 40.0 m3 of sand are added for the fracturing of this well, and the open flow capacity of the tested producing gas is more than 150,000 m3/day after the fracturing.
The high-temperature fresh water based fracturing fluid system consists of the guar gum, the high-temperature cross-linking agent, the temperature stabilizer and other additives, which is featured with better resistance to temperature and shearing, better stability, powerful solid-carrying capacity, high temperature resistance, controllable delay time of crosslinking; controllable gel breaking time, thorough gel breaking, low residue and outstanding reservoir protection performance. This system is applicable to the fracturing of high-temperature (120~180℃) deep oil-gas wells.
NO. | Items | Industry Standard | System Index | |
1 | Apparent viscosity of base fluid, mPa • s | 69~108 | 94 | |
2 | Crosslinking time, s | 60~300 | 120 | |
3 | Capacity of resistance to high temperature and shearing | Apparent viscosity, mPa • s | ≥50 | 66(180℃) |
4 | Matrix permeability damage ratio, % | ≤30 | 22 |
·Applicable to the temperature range of reservoir: 120℃<T<180℃; applicable to deep hydrocarbon reservoir.
The high-temperature fresh water based fracturing fluid system has been implemented successfully for 17 well-times in the fracturing of offshore tight gas fields since 2010 to 2021.
The sea water based fracturing fluid system consists of salt-tolerance thickener, high-temperature salt-resistance cross-linking agent, gel protestant and other additives, which is prepared directly by filtered sea water, characterized by powerful capacity in salt resistance, resistance to high temperature, better solid-carrying capacity, outstanding performance in reservoir protection, continuous mixing, etc.
NO. | Items | Industry Standard | System Index | |
1 | Apparent viscosity of base fluid, mPa • s | 60℃<T<120℃ | 27~63 | 35 |
120℃<T<180℃ | 63~111 | 100 | ||
2 | Crosslinking time, s | 60℃<T<120℃ | 30~120 | 90 |
120℃<T<180℃ | 60~300 | 120 | ||
3 | Capacity of resistance to high temperature and shearing | Apparent viscosity, mPa • s | ≥50 | 57(170℃) |
4 | Matrix permeability damage ratio, % | ≤30 | 24 |
The sea water based fracturing fluid system is applicable to the temperature range of reservoir: 60℃<T<170℃; and also applicable to the fracturing of offshore oil-gas well and fracturing-packing operations.
The sea water based fracturing fluid system is used to test 28 wells on site, with better application performance obtained. This well is added with 40.0 m3 of sand for fracturing, working fluid of 565.0 m3, and the fracturing task is completed successfully, and fluid performance could meet the requirements for the fracturing of high-temperature deep wells.
The high-temperature clean fracturing fluid is characterized by low residue, low damages, resistance to high temperature and low friction, with outstanding reservoir protection performance.
NO. | Items | Industry Standard | System Index | |
1 | Thickening time, s | 20℃<T<60℃ | 15~60 | 50 |
20℃<T<60℃ | 30~120 | 90 | ||
120℃≤T<180℃ | 60~300 | 120 | ||
60℃<T<120℃ | 30~120 | 70 | ||
120℃<T<180℃ | 60~300 | 120 | ||
2 | Capacity of resistance to high temperature and shearing | Apparent viscosity, mPa·s | ≥50 | 58(140℃) |
3 | Visco-elasticity | Storage modulus, Pa | ≥2.0 | 3.5 |
4 | loss modulus,Pa | ≥0.3 | 1.5 | |
5 | Matrix permeability damage ratio, % | ≤20 | 15.71 |
It is applicable to the temperature range of reservoir: 20℃<T<140℃; applicable to the fracturing of oil-water well and fracturing-packing operations. The high-temperature clean fracturing fluid is characterized by better resistance to high temperature and outstanding reservoir protection performance, with broad application prospects.
By changing the concentration of lotion thickener, the online configuration of slick water, linear glue and cross-linked fluid with different viscosities is realized, which completely changes the mode of fluid preparation in advance for fracturing. While meeting the requirements of fracturing technology, the equipment, personnel and site are reduced, the operation and construction process are simplified, and the operation cost is reduced. It is applicable to fracturing of oil and gas reservoirs at 60 ℃~160 ℃.
NO. | Items | Industry Standard | System Index | |
1 | Apparent viscosity of base fluid, mPa • s | 120℃≤T<180℃ | 180 | 150 |
2 | Crosslinking time, s | 120℃≤T<180℃ | 60~300 | 100 |
3 | Capacity of resistance to high temperature and shearing | Apparent viscosity, mPa•s | ≥50 | 67(160℃) |
4 | Matrix permeability damage ratio, % | ≤30 | 18 |
It can meet the requirements for the preparation of fresh water and sea water, and is applicable to conventional fracturing, volume fracturing and pressure drive processes on land and offshore.
Multi effect variable viscosity fracturing fluid technology has been implemented in 4 wells. The field application effect is good.
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