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Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventor:

Neil Joseph Modeland, Rosenberg, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/14 (2006.01); E21B 43/28 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01); E21B 43/117 (2006.01); E21B 43/116 (2006.01); E21B 33/12 (2006.01); E21B 43/04 (2006.01); E21B 43/267 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/14 (2013.01); E21B 33/12 (2013.01); E21B 43/116 (2013.01); E21B 43/117 (2013.01); E21B 43/26 (2013.01); E21B 43/28 (2013.01); E21B 43/04 (2013.01); E21B 43/267 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for well completion employs a combined plugging and perforating operation for creating multiple spaced-apart clusters of perforations and optional stimulation treatments in stages. For each stage to be completed, a frac plug, carried, for example, along a wireline bottom hole assembly with perforating guns, is set in the wellbore distal (toward the toe end of the well) of the most proximal perforation cluster of the previous stage, thereby maintaining open hole conditions that provide adequate flow past the most distal perforation clusters in the current stage and minimizing proppant accumulation in the wellbore from stimulation operations. The method further allows subsequent pump down of tools and equipment even with the plug set in the wellbore.


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