Reservoir Evaluation and Development ›› 2018, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (5): 42-47.

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Experimental study on influence factors of proppant placement in main fracture of channel fracturing process

Liu Pingli1,Li Zhenming1,Song Yuchun1,Zhao Liqiang1,Guo Yujie2,Li Jun1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Oil & Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China;
    2. No.5 Gas Production Plant of Changqing Oilfield Company, PetrolChina, Ordos, Inner Mongolia 017300, China
  • Received:2017-09-14 Online:2018-12-05 Published:2018-10-26

Abstract:

The polymer is easily trapped in the gap between the proppant particles, so the conventional hydraulic fracturing technology of the uniform sand production has limitation for the transformation of the low permeability, ultra-low permeability and shale gas reservoirs. The channel hydraulic fracturing technology can effectively increase the oil and gas production by forming a high diversion channel by non-uniform sand deposition. The effects of channel fracturing technique are mainly determined by the channel size of the formed sand embankment. By the similarity criterion, we established the experimental method of visual simulation system of channel fracturing to systematically analyzed the influence of the fracturing fluid viscosity, proppant concentration, fiber addition, pore arrangement, pulse time and construction displacement on the proppant placement pattern and channel ratio. Then we used the methods of the partial least squares regression and the importance of variable projection to analyze the influence degree of various factors on the channel rate. Under the experimental conditions, it is indicated that when the injecting volume is 4 ~ 6 m 3/min and the viscosity of fracturing fluid is 150 ~ 250 mPa·s, the concentration of proppant is lower, the concentration of fiber is higher, the pulse time is shorter, the perforation methods is more, and the higher viscosity is better. By means of partial least squares regression, importance analysis of variable projection, and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, the influence degree of each channel rate is in a descending order as: viscosity of fracturing fluid > perforation methods > pulse time > concentration of fracturing proppant > concentration of fiber > injecting volume.

Key words: channel fracturing, channel ratio, visualization, partial least squares regression, variable projection

CLC Number: 

  • TE377