SPE Mid-Continent Section Luncheon - Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Luncheon cost is $20.00 for Professionals, Retired, Unemployed, Graduate Students, and free for Undergraduate Students. Buy or reserve your tickets here. Payment by credit card is for advanced registrations ONLY, no credit cards will be accepted at the meeting, only check or cash accepted at the door with a reservation. Registration ends Tuesday, March 25th at 10:00 a.m.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 — 11:20 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Location: Tulsa Country Club, 701 North Union Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74127

Speaker: Kevin Wutherich, Chief Technology Officer at Drill2Frac

Topic: "Enhancing Predictive Understanding of Parent-Child Fracture Dynamics: A Holistic Approach"

DESCRIPTION: This talk presents a novel approach to understanding fracture interactions between infill wells and producing offsets during hydraulic fracturing, integrating wellbore pressure responses with geospatial data and completion results in a four-dimensional environment. Unlike traditional methods that focus narrowly on pressure changes, this approach incorporates crucial factors such as well locations, existing fractures, geological properties, and fracture sequencing. Through real-world case studies, advanced tools were used to analyze offset well pressure responses alongside data on rock strength, depletion, and wellbore heterogeneity. By combining these data, the method accurately identifies fracture interaction locations and mechanisms, enabling predictive modeling of fluid pathways. In the study of 100 stages, depleted fractures were found to strongly correlate with significant pressure increases in parent wells and direct fracture hits, with the method successfully predicting 90% of these interactions. This proactive, real-time integration of geological, geospatial, and completion data offers a groundbreaking framework for predicting and mitigating fracture interactions in a dynamic, four-dimensional context.

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