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A New Technique for Estimating Stress from Fracture Injection Tests Using Continuous Wavelet Transform

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  • Mohamed Adel Gabry

    (Department of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Houston, Houston, TX 77023, USA)

  • Ibrahim Eltaleb

    (Department of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Houston, Houston, TX 77023, USA)

  • Mohamed Y. Soliman

    (Department of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Houston, Houston, TX 77023, USA)

  • Syed M. Farouq-Ali

    (Department of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Houston, Houston, TX 77023, USA)

Abstract

The diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) is widely used to obtain the fracture closure pressure, reservoir permeability, and reservoir pressure. Conventional methods for analyzing DFIT are based on the assumption that a vertical well is drilled in ultra-low permeability reservoirs with potential multiple closures but fails to consider horizontal wells. There is still significant debate about the rigorousness and validity of these techniques due to the complexity of the hydraulic fracture opening and closure process and assumptions of conventional fracture detection methods. The paper introduces a new method for detecting fracture closure pressure using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT). The new method aims to decompose the pressure fall-off signal into multiple levels with different frequencies using the CWT. This “short wavy” function is stretched or compressed and placed at many positions along the signal to be analyzed. The wavelet then convoluted the signal yielding a wavelet coefficient value. The signal energy is observed during the fracture closure process (pressure fall-off) and the fracture closure event is identified when the signal energy stabilizes to a minimum level. A predefined simple commercial fracture simulation case with known fracture closure, flow regime modeling, and actual field cases was used to validate the new methodology.

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  • Mohamed Adel Gabry & Ibrahim Eltaleb & Mohamed Y. Soliman & Syed M. Farouq-Ali, 2023. "A New Technique for Estimating Stress from Fracture Injection Tests Using Continuous Wavelet Transform," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-29, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:16:y:2023:i:2:p:764-:d:1029930
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    1. Mohamed Adel Gabry & Ibrahim Eltaleb & Mohamed Y. Soliman & S. M. Farouq-Ali, 2023. "Validation of Estimating Stress from Fracture Injection Tests Using Continuous Wavelet Transform with Experimental Data," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-21, March.

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