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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2007
Jim B. Surjaatmadja, Duncan, OK (US);
Matt T. Howell, Duncan, OK (US);
Leonard Case, Duncan, OK (US);
Lonnie R. Robinson, Duncan, OK (US);
Jim B. Surjaatmadja, Duncan, OK (US);
Matt T. Howell, Duncan, OK (US);
Leonard Case, Duncan, OK (US);
Lonnie R. Robinson, Duncan, OK (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Duncan, OK (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for orchestrating multiple fractures at multiple well locations in a region by flowing well treatment fluid from a centralized well treatment fluid center includes the steps of configuring a well treatment fluid center for fracturing multiple wells, inducing a fracture at a first well location, measuring effects of stress fields from the first fracture, determining a time delay based in part upon the measured stress effects, inducing a second fracture after the time delay at a second location based upon the measured effects, and measuring the stress effects of stress fields from the second fracture. Sensors disposed about the region are adapted to output effects of the stress fields. Location and orientation of subsequent fractures is based on the combined stress effects of the stress fields as a result of the prior fractures which provides for optimal region development.