Our cloud-based FlowFX simulation software enables Drill2Frac experts to model the impacts of manipulating various completion-design parameters – according to actual near-wellbore rock properties along the lateral.
Before you begin to execute in the field, this information gives you the unique ability to compare how different combinations of design changes will affect fluid distribution and treatment pressures among perforation clusters.
Stage by stage, you’ll be better equipped to answer critical questions that can affect your completion success:
- Is there sufficient or excessive perforation friction?
- Are clusters competing because they’re placed too close together?
- Can you add more clusters to increase stage lengths and reduce costs?
- What is the impact of changing perf guns (charge types or phasing)?
- What is the impact of an optimized completion?
Here’s what you get from the FlowFX near-wellbore simulator.
Guided by FlowFX modeling results, you can create optimized completion designs tailored to each well’s unique characteristics. (Simulation software is not downloadable and is accessible only to Drill2Frac analysts.)
Our innovative simulation process:
- Dynamically models each perforation cluster along the wellbore
- Uses actual mechanical properties, based on our proprietary RockMSE® calculations
- Calculates dynamic erosion from proppant flow over time
- Estimates dynamic changes in breakdown pressure at each cluster
- Calculates impact of stress shadow – in both current and previous stages
- Varies individual hole sizes based on perforation phasing
- Enables modeling various combinations of completion parameters
- Accounts for the impact of localized depletion around existing fractures
- Can be calibrated with additional diagnostic data, including geomechanical stress profiles, downhole camera images, and fiber-optic data
FlowFX Stage Summary (powered by Corva): Visualize important completion parameters, row by row, to compare how cumulative adjustments will affect well performance.
Here’s how FlowFX near-wellbore simulation works.
After characterizing near-wellbore rock properties based on detailed RockMSE calculations, we use FlowFX software to model the effects of adjusting many different completion parameters, including:
- Stage length
- Number of clusters per stage
- Cluster placement
- Number of perforations per cluster
- Perforation phasing
- Perforation diameters
- Pump rates
Output data includes well uniformity index and cluster efficiency.
FlowFX illustration showing the impact of perf diameters.