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MOC 2018, 2018
The technology of hydraulic fracturing for reservoir stimulation and enhanced hydrocarbon recover... more The technology of hydraulic fracturing for reservoir stimulation and enhanced hydrocarbon recovery is common and not new, but it is different in its success ratio. The success of this application is related to more integrated work between reservoir engineering and geology and the controlling of success ratio is related to reservoir facies and geological characteristics. This approach gave good results in Arta and East Arta oil fields Arta and East Arta oil fields are located in the western onshore area of the central Gulf of Suez sub-province about 33 Km to the north west of Ras Gharib city. These fields mainly producing from Oligo-Miocene reservoirs (Nukhul & Red Bed) and only three wells are producing from Eocene Thebes limestone reservoir. About 100 well were drilled in these fields; most of them are producing from Nukhul tight reservoir with hydraulic fracturing with success ratio 100%. The Lower Miocene Nukhul Formation is mainly consists of conglomeritic sandstone and gravel at basal part which consider the main Nukhul reservoir overlaid by sandy and argillaceous limestone covering the upper part. The Oligocene Red Bed reservoir consists of sandstone and gravel mostly conglomeritic but it is less tightness than Nukhul facies. Due to tightness of these reservoirs with large volume of oil entrapments, they were selected to be subject for hydraulic fracturing. Although these reservoirs characterized by high heterogeneity, it gave a good results compared with another different reservoirs in the Gulf of Suez province. The success of this approach is attributed to the understanding of the depositional facies of Nukhul Formation and Red Bed and their diagenesis represented in the minor fractures which help in performing hydraulic fracturing designs. As a result of hydraulic fracturing, the daily production from these fields was increased up to 400%. In addition, the recovery factor was raised up to 10% to convert about 2.6 MMSTB from unrecoverable to recoverable ultimate oil reserve. Also, the technique applied in the neighbor NWG new field on Red Bed reservoir with similar success results. So, it is recommended to apply this technology to the similar reservoirs to increase oil production and optimize reserve from other fields throughout Egypt.
MOC 2018, 2018
The technology of hydraulic fracturing for reservoir stimulation and enhanced hydrocarbon recover... more The technology of hydraulic fracturing for reservoir stimulation and enhanced hydrocarbon recovery is common and not new, but it is different in its success ratio. The success of this application is related to more integrated work between reservoir engineering and geology and the controlling of success ratio is related to reservoir facies and geological characteristics. This approach gave good results in Arta and East Arta oil fields Arta and East Arta oil fields are located in the western onshore area of the central Gulf of Suez sub-province about 33 Km to the north west of Ras Gharib city. These fields mainly producing from Oligo-Miocene reservoirs (Nukhul & Red Bed) and only three wells are producing from Eocene Thebes limestone reservoir. About 100 well were drilled in these fields; most of them are producing from Nukhul tight reservoir with hydraulic fracturing with success ratio 100%. The Lower Miocene Nukhul Formation is mainly consists of conglomeritic sandstone and gravel at basal part which consider the main Nukhul reservoir overlaid by sandy and argillaceous limestone covering the upper part. The Oligocene Red Bed reservoir consists of sandstone and gravel mostly conglomeritic but it is less tightness than Nukhul facies. Due to tightness of these reservoirs with large volume of oil entrapments, they were selected to be subject for hydraulic fracturing. Although these reservoirs characterized by high heterogeneity, it gave a good results compared with another different reservoirs in the Gulf of Suez province. The success of this approach is attributed to the understanding of the depositional facies of Nukhul Formation and Red Bed and their diagenesis represented in the minor fractures which help in performing hydraulic fracturing designs. As a result of hydraulic fracturing, the daily production from these fields was increased up to 400%. In addition, the recovery factor was raised up to 10% to convert about 2.6 MMSTB from unrecoverable to recoverable ultimate oil reserve. Also, the technique applied in the neighbor NWG new field on Red Bed reservoir with similar success results. So, it is recommended to apply this technology to the similar reservoirs to increase oil production and optimize reserve from other fields throughout Egypt.