Hydraulic Fracture Treatment Design and Implementation: The Benefits of Applying New Technology. (A Seminar Summary)

摘要

A survey of the natural gas industry has been conducted to determine how practicing petroleum engineers design and implement hydraulic fracture treatments. An important goal of the survey was to ascertain if there was a general awareness of new fracture treatment technologies that have been developed and, if so, were these technologies being applied in industry. The authors have also investigated the demographics of who responded to the survey, and the geographical location and type of formations that are being fracture treated. The survey was limited to wells within the United States.