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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
James B. Crews, Willis, TX (US);
Robert Samuel Hurt, Tomball, TX (US);
Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Improving the flow of hydrocarbons from shale lateral wellbores in unconventional wellbores may be accomplished with various configurations of assisting lateral wellbores and/or kick-off wellbores from primary lateral wellbores and/or secondary or assisting lateral wellbores. By extending fracture networks from adjacent lateral wellbores and/or adjacent kick-off wellbores so that the fracture networks from different wellbores are in fluid communication with one another, the flow of various fluids between the adjacent wellbores provides another dimension of control over the wellbores and fracture networks used to recover hydrocarbons from the shale intervals of interest.