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Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2016
Applicant:

Eog Resources, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Michael James, San Antonio, TX (US);

Oscar A. Bustos, San Antonio, TX (US);

Evan Daniel Gilmore, Forth Worth, TX (US);

Eric Robert Matus, Midland, TX (US);

Assignee:

EOG RESOURCES, INC., Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/26 (2006.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/26 (2013.01); E21B 49/008 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for determining a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir quality prior to a hydraulic fracture treatment based on completions index is disclosed. The method comprises a step performing a test determining a hydraulic pressure at which a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir will begin to fracture by pumping a fluid in a wellbore, wherein the wellbore extends from a surface to the reservoir and the wellbore has one or more perforations in communication with reservoir; a step generating a pressure transient in the wellbore, the pressure transient travels from the surface to the reservoir through the perforations and reflects back the surface after contacting the reservoir; a step measuring response of the pressure transient at sufficiently high sampling frequency; a step determining fracture hydraulic parameters of the perforations and the reservoir using the measured response; and optimizing a stimulation treatment to the reservoir based on the determined fracture hydraulic parameters.


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