A Delaware Basin case study demonstrates various techniques to minimize parent and child well interactions. The oil boom in the Permian Basin has been made possible in part by an increase in pad and infill drilling. This drilling practice also has resulted in fracture hits. Fracture hits occur when a child well is completed near a parent well. Production from the parent well and associated depletion results in a pressure sink around the parent well, which causes the hydraulic treatment from the child well to communicate with the parent well.
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