Call for Papers

By submitting your paper for the SPE Symposium, you get the opportunity to share your ideas and your company experience in the field of hydraulic fracturing with your colleagues and experts from leading industry companies.

Submission Guidelines

If you are interested in speaking at the workshop, please send your presentation abstract (350-400 words with the description of nature and scope of work, possible applications, and summary of results or technical contributions) to Antonina Kozmina before 1 June 2020.

Abstract Requirements

Title in Russian and English languages
Session name
Name of the author and co-author, and their company names
Contact details, including a phone number, address, e-mail address

The abstract should consist of 350 – 400 words, including the short description of:

Paper’s aim
Novelty
Possible ways of application
Technologies
Results and conclusions

Your abstract will be reviewed by the programme committee to consider its acceptance for the Workshop Program.

Commercialism

In keeping with the Symposium objectives and SPE’s mission, excessive commercialism in posters or presentations will not be permitted. Company logo must be limited to the first slide and used only to indicate the affiliation of the presenter and others involved in the work.

Topics for Submission

Software and mathematical simulation
Experimental research of physical processes (fluid model, proppant sedimentation models etc.)
Laboratory tests of materials and chemical agents, recent developments (ultra-lightweight proppants, new chemicals and fluids)
Surface acting agents, low-viscosity gels, aerated fluids – theoretical fundamentals and laboratory tests
Laboratory tests of proppant pack conductivity, proppants and chemical agent quality tests

Hydraulic Fracturing Pilot Projects: Increasing Complexity – Innovation and Engineering Development Incentive

Hydraulic fracturing pilots: surfactants, liquids, proppants, engineering methodologies – experience, analysis and implementation
Hard-to-recover reserves, anomalously high formation pressure, hydraulic fracturing of gas and gas condensate and/or high stress formations: approaches and efficiency
Hydraulic fracturing for high and low formation temperatures
Acid and acid-proppant hydraulic fracturing operations

Integrated projects: Hydraulic Fracturing and Well Testing

From well testing to diagnostic fracture injection test
Mini hydraulic fracturing analysis methods
Additional research – the when and the where are needed?
Reducing the number of test injections – optimisation methods with no loss in analysis quality
Multi-frac design specifics

Integrated projects: Geological model, Geomechanics and Hydraulic Fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing and Geomechanics: From core to correlations and 1D-models-…and so on, to 3D models
Hydraulic fracturing and well-logging: Geometric and filtration properties of fractures – case studies, conclusions
Synchronisation and transfer of data from geological and geo-mechanical models to simulators of hydraulic fracturing. Upscaling
Building and adjustment of hydraulic fracturing 1D-pads for synthetic and diversified data – case-studies
Case studies: Fractures of a complicated shape, discrete fracture network, hydraulic fracturing in fractured reservoirs
Hydraulic fracturing “long wells” of ERD wells

Integrated Projects: Hydraulic Fracturing and Field Development = Jointly Solved Task

Hydrodynamic modelling for hydraulic fracturing design and analysis
Field development by grid of horizontal and directional wells with Multistage fracturing
Design: Frac direction, number of stages – theoretical justification and case studies
Transfer of frac parameters to hydrodynamic models honoring frac geometry
Development drilling planning and downhole drilling system: strategy, opportunities, technical parameters and field development approaches optimisation
Who is the champion: Number of stages, the mass of proppant, and complexity of well construction? Are records worth the cost?
How to estimate the effect — by well or by stages? Efficiency of multistage HF: technologies, methods and results

Re-Fracturing:

Selection of candidate well: criteria, risk assessment, risk/ uncertainty mitigation
Efficient pre-treatment and re-frac technology selection for multistage hydraulic fracturing
Completion for future efficient re-frac
Efficient Multiport re-fracturing: equipment, methodology, case studies and limits

Hydraulic Fracturing in Extreme Environments:

Mini hydraulic fracturing and hydraulic fracturing: operational solutions of technical and technological issues, approaches and methods
Hydraulic fracturing fluids sources: approaches, solutions
Problems of borehole and middle zones of reservoir: methods and technologies
Solution of technological problems of hydraulic fracturing in fractured reservoirs
Hydraulic fracturing in aggressive, corrosive environments
Hydraulic fracturing in slim hole wells, wells of reduced diameter and mono-bore wells
Hydraulic Fracturing in open hole wells
Hydraulic fracturing in multilateral wells - technological solutions

Fracturing fleets, laboratories, completion equipment. Frac equipment - complete solutions of global manufacturers and localisation in Russia
Integrated solutions for the supply and implementation of hydraulic fracturing equipment
Localisation of fracturing equipment in the Russian Federation
Current trends in the equipment and manufacturability of hydraulic fracturing equipment
Modernisation of hydraulic fracturing equipment in Russia, market size and needs
New technologies of multistage HF or time proved decisions
Laboratory equipment for well stimulation: global manufacturers and import phase-out
Liquid testing – equipment, methodology

Economics

Hydraulic fracturing operational efficiency optimisation: "Pumps should work, not stand idle”
Cost optimisation of fracturing operations, technical solutions, proppants and chemicals
Cost optimisation of drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing completion elements