US 12,078,059 B2
Dynamically modeling a hydraulic fracture
Erica Wilhelmina Catharina Coenen, Spring, TX (US); Sean Andrew Spicer, Houston, TX (US); and Sudhendu Kashikar, Katy, TX (US)
Assigned to Reveal Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Reveal Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/095,253.
Application 17/095,253 is a division of application No. 16/723,756, filed on Dec. 20, 2019, abandoned.
Application 16/723,756 is a continuation of application No. 16/044,160, filed on Jul. 24, 2018, granted, now 10,513,923, issued on Dec. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/536,210, filed on Jul. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0062646 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. E21B 49/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01); E21B 43/267 (2006.01); E21B 47/06 (2012.01); G01V 20/00 (2024.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01)
CPC E21B 49/00 (2013.01) [E21B 43/2607 (2020.05); E21B 43/267 (2013.01); E21B 47/06 (2013.01); G01V 20/00 (2024.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G01V 2210/646 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for determining a proppant-area of a hydraulic fracture, comprising:
identifying a fracture fluid leak-off curve that comprises a plurality of time-dependent pressure signal values of a fluid in a first wellbore formed in a subsurface formation, each of the plurality of time-dependent pressure signal values comprising a pressure change in the fluid in the first wellbore that is induced by formation of a hydraulic fracture from a second wellbore in the subsurface formation by a hydraulic fracturing fluid that comprises proppant;
determining a time value corresponding to one of the plurality of time-dependent pressure signal values, the time value associated with proppant landing time in the hydraulic fracture;
determining a plurality of extrapolated time-dependent pressure signal values based on, and prior to, the determined time value;
generating at least one curve that comprises the plurality of extrapolated time-dependent pressure signal values;
determining an intersection of the fracture fluid leak-off curve and the generated at least one curve;
determining a particular time-dependent pressure signal value at the intersection;
based on the determined particular time-dependent pressure signal value, determining a proppant-area dimension of the hydraulic fracture formed from the second wellbore; and
determining the proppant-area of the hydraulic fracture based on the determined proppant-area dimension of the hydraulic fracture; and
generating one or more graphical representations of the determined proppant-area of the second hydraulic fracture for output to a graphical user interface (GUI).