October 24-28

• The latest in hydraulic fracturing techniques
• Fundamentals in rock mechanics and fracture design
• Methods of identifying fracturing candidates
• Predicting after-frac well performance
• Selection of fracturing fluids, proppants, breakers & additives
• Hands-on quality control testing of fluid systems

You should have an engineering or scientific background. The class is an introduction to hydraulic fracturing. It is ideal for reservoir, production and operations engineers serving on multidisciplinary asset teams.

Location

This TAMU Frac School will be held October 24-28th, 2005 in the Richardson Building on the Texas A&M University campus. MAP

Richardson Petroleum Engr Building
3116 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3116
Tel: (979) 693-7500
Fax: (979) 260-1931

Accommodations for the event will be provided by the Quality Suites Hotel in College Station (979) 695-9500.
A block of rooms will be reserved until October 10th at a special rate of $76 a night under the name 'Frac School.'

Quality Suites
(979) 695-9500
(979) 695-9501 (fax)
1010 University Dr E
College Station, TX 77840

Principal Instructors

John Ely

Dr. Jerry Jensen

Dr. John Lee

Dr. Jim Russell

Dr. Stuart L. Scott

Dr. Peter Valko

Course Outline

Overview of Hydraulic Fracturing (Scott)
(pumping process, motivation, single planar fracture model, Young's Modulus and Poisson's Ratio, proppants, fracturing fluids, fracture creation and proppant transport, discussion of new techniques and common design and execution problems)
Fractured Well Performance and Candidate Selection (Scott)
(production systems, types of flow, skin concepts, well deliverability, material balance and future IPR, fracture conductivity, forecasting flow performance, tubing and production systems considerations)
Fracture Well Evaluation (Lee)
(well test analysis for fractured wells, determination of fracture length and conductivity, testing procedure, rate-time analysis for tight wells)
Rock Mechanics for Hydraulic Fracturing (Russell)
(rock mechanical properties, core testing methods, leak off and stress testing, in-situ stresses and determining fracture orientation, perforating and well deviation effects)
Log Analysis for Hydraulic Fracturing (Jensen)
(determination of rock properties from log data, sonic logs, stress profiles, cement evaluation, tracer and fracture identification logs)
Fracture Design (Valko)
(treatment procedures, pre-treatment data gathering, perforation strategy, tortuosity, mini-frac analysis, leak-off principles, selection of target fracture length and conductivity, pump rates, flowback procedures)
Calculation of Fracture Dimensions (Valko)
(commercially available 2-D and 3-D fracture models, limitations, common problems)
Post Job Analysis of Fracture Treatments (Valko)
(data gathering, fracturing pressure analysis, design improvement)
Proppants (Ely)
(proppant types, resin coated proppants, quality control of proppants)
Fracturing Fluids (Ely)
(optimum fluid selection, breaker loading, new enzyme bre aker systems, sand control additives)
Quality Control Fundamentals (Ely)
(on-site fluid testing, monitoring fracture execution, intense QC)
Job Rigup, Execution, Decision Making, Flow Back Philosophy (Ely)
(inventory, QC of proppant and crosslinked gel systems, breaker loading tests, decision making, post job inventory)
Recent Developments (Ely)
(design procedure, fluid loss control, fracture growth in "soft rocks," recent FracPack results, water frac, tortuosity, mini-frac interpretation based on efficiency)
Hands on Laboratory Sessions
(QC of proppant and crosslinked gel systems, breaker loading tests, Fann 35 viscometers, foam testing)