The hydraulic fracturing process for recovery of oil/gas in unconventional environments presents many challenges to achieve suitable stimulated reservoir volumes. Some of the main challenges are associated with the fracture growth and proppant placement which can be influenced by many environmental and operational aspects.
Elfen tgr hydraulic fracturing accounts for the full physics of the complex coupled geomechanical and hydraulic system in 2D and 3D. The simulations allow the inclusion of in-situ material and stress heterogeneity, natural fracture networks, non-linear fracture mechanics, incremental fracture propagation, stress shadowing, fracture curvature, dynamic fluid injection and proppant transport.
The integrated Elfen tgr software allows the user to import in-situ conditions, define the completion design and injection schedule and realise the most detailed physics-based fracture propagation in terms of fracture height growth and influence of stress shadowing. By understanding the likely fracture propagation and proppant placement, completion designs may be optimised and appropriate landing heights selected.
When using Elfen tgr hydraulic fracturing completion designs may be optimised and appropriate landing heights selected.
Features and Benefits
- Integrated software for model construction, simulations and assessment
- Incorporation of 1D, 2D or 3D variations in material and stress conditions
- Fracture height growth assessment and impact to cap rock and out-of-zone areas
- Incorporated interactions between fractures during growth allowing tightly spacing cluster configurations to be assessed
- Fracture curvature allow assessment in complex stress regimes and wells non-aligned with in-situ stresses
Our Software
Elfen’s flexibility and modelling power has allowed it to be successfully utilised in a wide range of industries. We have developed specialist software modules to cater towards your specific industry.
Elfen TGR Hydraulic Fracturing
The first commercial ‘all in one’ and advanced application package to answer challenging fracture design problems at multiple scales. The integrated Elfen tgr software allows the user to import in-situ conditions, define the completion design and injection schedule and realise the most detailed physics-based fracture propagation
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