With the surge in activity in the Williston basin, the ability to optimize completions has mainly been an expensive trial-and-error system. With the advent of sliding-sleeve technology, operational efficiency could potentially be increased, but the effectiveness of the completion remained unclear. This paper presents a work flow to analyze data sets to optimize completion efficiency.
Introduction
The operator gathered a number of data sets from the Williston basin (the geology is discussed in the complete paper) and integrated the results to arrive at an optimized completion design at a fraction of the cost. This step was conducted with Phase 1; Phase 2 was then implemented to test the recommended design.
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