Reveal Energy Services, Inc.

Westerngeco L.l.p.

Sudhendu Kashikar

Sean Andrew Spicer

Erica Coenen

Erica Whilhelmina Catharina Coenen

Cengiz Esmersoy

Raj Banerjee

Maurice Nessim

Peter Gerhard Tilke

Jeffrey Spath

Erica Wilhelmina Catharina Coenen

Nader Dutta

R K Michael Thambynayagam

Gregory P Grove

Annabelle Kania

Christopher Hopkins

Techniques for determining a hydraulic fracture dimension include identifying pressure signal values of a first fracturing fluid in a monitor wellbore that represent a pressure change in the first fracturing fluid that is induced by formation of a second hydraulic fracture from a treatment wellbore; determining a particular pressure signal value of the plurality of pressure signal values; based on the determined particular pressure signal value, determining a particular dimension of the second hydraulic fracture formed from the treatment wellbore; and determining, based at least in part on (i) the determined particular dimension, and (ii) a first pressure signal value of the plurality of pressure signal values that is less than the determined particular pressure signal value, a first intermediate dimension of the second hydraulic fracture that is less than the determined particular dimension of the second hydraulic fracture.

Dynamically modeling a hydraulic fracture

A wellbore system includes a first fracture formed from a wellbore at a first location; a second fracture formed from the wellbore at a second location; a wellbore seal positioned in the wellbore between the first and second locations and configured to fluidly seal a first portion from a second portion of the wellbore; a pressure gauge positioned in the first portion; a pressure gauge positioned in or uphole of the second portion; and a control system configured to communicably couple to the pressure gauges. The control system performs operations including identifying a set of first pressure values recorded by the pressure gauge in the first portion during a hydraulic fracturing operation; identifying at least one second pressure value recorded by the pressure gauge positioned in the second portion during the hydraulic fracturing operation; based on the set of first pressure values and the second pressure value, determining fracture geometries of the second hydraulic fracture; and generating a graphical representation of the fracture geometries.

Determining geometries of hydraulic fractures

Techniques for determining a proppant-area of a hydraulic fracture include identifying a fracture fluid leak-off curve that includes time-dependent pressure signal values of a first fracturing fluid in a monitor wellbore that is in fluid communication with a first hydraulic fracture formed from the monitor wellbore. Each of the time-dependent pressure signal values is a pressure change in the first fracturing fluid induced by a second hydraulic fracture from a treatment wellbore formed by a second fracturing fluid that includes proppant. The techniques further include determining a time value corresponding to a time-dependent pressure signal value associated with proppant landing time in the second hydraulic fracture; generating a pre-closure curve that includes extrapolated time-dependent pressure signal values; determining an intersection of the fracture fluid leak-off curve and the generated at least one pre-closure curve; determining a time-dependent pressure signal value that occurs at the intersection; and determining a proppant-area dimension of the second hydraulic fracture.

Dynamically modeling a proppant area of a hydraulic fracture

A system and method for performing an adaptive drilling operation is provided. The method involves obtaining data prior to drilling, constructing a base model with a base model unit from data obtained prior to drilling, constructing an overburden posterior model with an overburden model unit using the base model and data obtained from overburden drilling, constructing a reservoir posterior model with a reservoir model unit using the overburden posterior model and the data obtained from reservoir drilling and updating drilling operation based on the models.

System and method for performing an adaptive drilling operation

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