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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Enhanced Production, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Sidney J. Green, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Enhanced Production, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
Well completion technology is disclosed for accounting for fracture surface roughness. A frack fluid is pumped into the wellbore to form a fracture in a formation surrounding a wellbore. In one example, a method for completing a wellbore comprises determining a fracture surface roughness for a given formation rock, and for a give fracture fluid or pumping schedule or both, prior to hydraulic fracturing. A fracture fluid and/or a pumping schedule is selected based on the determined fracture surface roughness and formation characteristics. The selected fracture fluid is pumped into the wellbore, with the selected pumping schedule, to create a desired fracture network in the formation.