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00:05 | Okay, So here's some examples um Argentina from the Balcombe murdered a |
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00:11 | struck. And this is cool because can see how laterally extensive some of |
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00:17 | could be going all the way all the way here along the |
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00:20 | Another one here very extensive so they extend laterally for quite large distances. |
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00:29 | . And this is just a zoomed picture on this part of the betting |
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00:34 | fracture. And you can see how thick these guys are there. Quite |
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00:40 | thick if you have a vertical. , sorry. Go ahead. I |
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00:47 | gonna ask if you if you had vertical fracture propagating and it hit one |
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00:51 | these, uh, bed parallel Did they typically travel along the bed |
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00:56 | or did they typically propagate a particular through them? That's that's a good |
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01:07 | . I I think they typically propagate them on bond. Part of that |
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01:14 | is that these had to have formed the source rock was in the maturation |
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01:22 | and thes vertical ones that we see formed later they post state hydrocarbon generation |
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01:31 | during the early stages of a And so I'll expect these to propagate |
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01:39 | the betting parallel fractures and a Z through. We'll have to look and |
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01:45 | if we see examples of that or . So why the calcite? Good |
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01:56 | . I don't have a good answer that. Um, we see these |
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02:00 | with calcite, silica, gypsum. , any hydro thermally low temperature mineral |
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02:10 | highly soluble. In another example here Marcellus core variable thickness, centimeters so |
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02:23 | here. Down to a couple of here in these guys. Okay, |
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02:33 | . We're gonna shift now and talk geo mechanics and fracture mechanics. The |
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02:37 | of fractures to the imposed stresses, ? Some way talking about this. |
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02:48 | block diagram before, um, where have of signal one maximum compressive stress |
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02:56 | three, the minimum compressive stress. then on the fall, thes two |
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03:02 | are resolved into a in a shear that acts parallel to the fault. |
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03:12 | these air what we used to go the the more Coolum analyses there |
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03:21 | And so what I have here the part of this picture is discriminating. |
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03:27 | pool, um, stress diagram where is the normal stress. So this |
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03:34 | this stress acting perpendicular to a shear in this. Why is, |
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03:45 | normal stress? But I should issue It's the normal stress acting on the |
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03:49 | . And then the shear stress is component of stress acting parallel to the |
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03:57 | . And what I'm showing here is core plug that's been subjected to a |
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04:01 | actual deformation experiment where it started out a core plug hole core plug and |
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04:09 | , um, subjected thio increasing maximum stress until a fracture formed until it |
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04:17 | . By sheer failure to get these Coolum envelopes or we generate, we |
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04:25 | a Siris of experiments like this, in each case, off calculate and |
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04:31 | the normal stress and the shear stress the fall. And we do it |
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04:36 | increasing Sigma wanna and increasing Sigma So we get a Siris of stress |
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04:43 | here, here in red, here in black, and the tangent to |
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04:51 | circles is defined as the more common envelope. Hm. So any time |
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04:59 | have a combination of normal stress and stress that lies on that envelope, |
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05:07 | you've achieved the conditions for cheer Okay, now that's that's good for |
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05:21 | fault and sheer fractures. Well, want to know what the stress conditions |
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05:26 | for tensile fractures for these joints, this example from the Marcellus. So |
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05:32 | tensile joints, by definition, have shear stress. They have no sheer |
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05:38 | along them. They're just opening mode fractures. And so these have to |
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05:46 | where the shear stresses is basically So they're gonna form, uh, |
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05:54 | this in this portion of the the envelope with negative with zero low shear |
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06:04 | in and requiring an actual negative sigma to get over into this quadrant. |
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06:16 | , and I've added here now a circle that represents tensile failure. So |
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06:22 | get this, um, we have have, uh, we have to |
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06:30 | the signal three into the negative which requires high fluid pressure. So |
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06:41 | requirements for these joints for tensile failure low total stress. This circle has |
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06:47 | be a really small diameter circle to able to fit underneath here. So |
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06:53 | ah, low total stress, low stress. The diameter of this circle |
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06:58 | to be small to fit in and we have to have a high |
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07:02 | pressure to move that stress circle from the right out here into that on |
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07:11 | quadrant of shear. Stress of One of normal stress. John. |
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07:17 | that happens, and the the Mode fractures are vertical, we get |
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07:24 | When they're horizontal, we get Um, and they ge mechanically the |
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07:32 | . They just formed from different orientations signal one from vertical to horizontal. |
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07:38 | , the other important point to make is that essentially, the trend of |
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07:43 | , that strike of these is parallel signal one that's a that's a critical |
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07:49 | will come back to you, So this explains the role of fluid |
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07:58 | . There's, um there's my more failure envelope Where it's read. Here |
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08:03 | where I get sheer failure all along . So any combination of high stress |
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08:10 | potentially generate cheer failure to get the one tensile fractures here, where the |
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08:18 | stressed is negative, have to have , high fluid pressure to shift that |
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08:24 | circle to the left, decreasing the normal stress where it moves into the |
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08:30 | values in here. Excuse me, , can you let Joe back |
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08:34 | I believe he was. Oops. correct. Um, Maria Can you |
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08:42 | let him in? Yeah. Okay, I see we're up to |
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09:15 | . Are we good to go? back. Mhm. Mhm. |
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09:45 | Joe, are you there? Did did you hear the slide when I |
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09:48 | talking about four pressure? Uh, , no. But you have to |
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09:55 | back. Don't worry. Well, just talk about this one. |
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10:00 | Um, To get the tensile joints here where you have no sheer |
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10:04 | you have to have a high fluid to move that stress circle from the |
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10:08 | to the left to where your normal stress become zero. All |
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10:19 | so I have a series of slides to talk about How that how that |
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10:24 | . Um, the the black circle represents my my vertical stress. My |
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10:32 | one, my main normal stress. this is with no overburden. If |
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10:38 | increase the fluid pressure, the fluid basically starts toe carry some of the |
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10:44 | . It starts to float. Some the rock weight basically and moves this |
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10:50 | stress for the left by an amount determined by the, uh, by |
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10:56 | fluid pressure on. So this is the vertical stress with no fluid |
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11:03 | This is the vertical stress with low pressure. And if I raise the |
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11:07 | pressure higher, I can migrate this V all the way over here to |
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11:13 | I have an effective stress with high . All right, so now if |
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11:22 | is if it failure conditions If this my are Sigma V it failure, |
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11:31 | could construct a circle that intersects the envelope here and gives me a minimum |
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11:37 | effective stress here, allow at both these Have low overpressure. If I |
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11:44 | the same thing, it high over here you can see I'm going to |
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11:48 | a much smaller stress circle in Who would this tie overpressure my effective |
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11:57 | stress. Here, the minimum stress failure lies here. This circle intersects |
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12:04 | failure envelope and is much smaller diameter this original circle that I started with |
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12:11 | low overpressure or with no overpressure. so if I continue to increase this |
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12:21 | pressure toe where it's essentially equal to main effective stretch, my main effective |
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12:30 | , I can migrate that stress circle the way over to the left, |
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12:33 | the negative, and then the negative Stress region and generate joints and tensile |
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12:43 | . And if if my main stresses , thes fractures will be joints if |
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12:51 | main stresses horizontal thes structures will be parallel fractures or beef. Uh |
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13:02 | Okay, So talking now about the of this of the gym mechanics for |
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13:06 | stress orientations. So for joints, important point is that the strike of |
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13:17 | joints is parallel to the strike of one in stigma. Three strived perpendicular |
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13:24 | the joints. So here's a cartoon my joint. My mode one pencil |
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13:29 | . There's no shear offset. it's it's opening, as shown in |
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13:34 | direction by the zeros. So these represent my signal. Three in the |
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13:39 | of the fracture represents my signal. if I flip this thing on the |
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13:47 | . So my signal one is still . But now my sigma three is |
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13:52 | . I get betting parallel fractures or again. No sheer offset along the |
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13:58 | . Just your opening mode. signatories. Vertical signal. One is |
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14:04 | in the Uh huh. The fluid to do this has to be about |
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14:13 | , toothy overburden stress. So are pressure to get these Has to be |
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14:18 | life aesthetic. Okay. Um so this is Ah, discussion. |
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14:35 | don't we, uh let's let's take quick break here. Maybe 10 |
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14:41 | See, I have about it about of two. Let's come back at |
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14:46 | 2, and then we'll talk about the questions on this slide. |
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17:30 | We've got almost everybody, so we'll ahead. Um, you feel free |
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17:35 | turn your video off again if you . Um, So let's let's discuss |
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17:40 | question. We have J one J two here. J one strikes |
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17:47 | . J two is perpendicular to that . What were the orientations of signal |
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17:53 | and Sigma three during J one. during J one, what was what |
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17:58 | Sigma one? Anybody? Anybody take guess. Was it a normal, |
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18:05 | force? Be max. Signal one normal. You know what was |
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18:15 | let me let me rephrase that. , what was the maximum Horace? |
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18:21 | of the maximum horizontal stress on Some stress is like is like the |
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18:27 | position as the arrow, but like but finding the swift. Yeah. |
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18:35 | for J one, the maximum horizontal parallel to the strike of the |
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18:42 | What does that mean for the minimum stress Follow. Ridiculous. Yeah. |
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18:50 | this orientation so that the joints air against the minimum horizontal stress in this |
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18:59 | . Okay. During J when J formed what was the orientation of the |
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19:03 | horizontal stress? I feel like it's to J one. Or just a |
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19:13 | TJ do. Yeah, pretty stay to J two. Um, either |
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19:19 | is correct here, but the more correct answer is parallel to J |
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19:24 | So the strike of these joints is us the strike of the maximum horizontal |
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19:30 | and the minimum horizontal stress is gonna perpendicular to that. What does that |
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19:38 | or imply in terms of, or circle diagram. Anybody want to |
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19:42 | a stab at that? J one have a really large circle. |
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19:53 | and J two would have really small towards closer to the tension that curve |
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20:00 | occurs of close half right. The would be back there. Your share |
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20:15 | that zero. That's right. Shear it. Zero. How about the |
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20:24 | of the stresses? We large So guess the curve will be inverted instead |
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20:32 | junior increasing with both of them. both needs to be big. |
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20:37 | So it's the opposite. Both need be both need to be small. |
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20:43 | ? Yeah. So both of these tensile failure. So failure is occurring |
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20:54 | here in Moore Coons Stress spaces. the stress circle has to be very |
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21:00 | to fit into that space. um, because it's small, it's |
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21:08 | doesn't take much change for this One of the sigma three to swap |
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21:16 | change the orientation from a northeast to . I didn't. So when you |
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21:23 | you see these multiple joint sets the strike of the joints is telling |
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21:29 | the strike of the Sigma H. and, um, the presence of |
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21:37 | starts that hi angles to that is you that the stresses air very close |
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21:43 | each other in value so that they easily swap in terms of the the |
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21:49 | in the max value and the more stress space. I'm so this so |
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22:00 | this is important. The strike of joints is parallel to the max. |
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22:05 | stress in the magnitude of the stresses to be very small to get into |
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22:11 | tensile region on the in the Mechanical analysis. So I have a |
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22:19 | . But you mean the You mean just You mean between J two and |
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22:31 | one? They're both very small because already broke. So the stress is |
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22:41 | . Is this graphic for J one tube? It's for the graphic is |
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22:48 | both Thinks part of the graphic is both since. Okay, So this |
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22:56 | analysis this graphic doesn't tell you anything the orientation of the joints. It |
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23:03 | tells you about the stresses when they E. I'm thinking that j one |
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23:08 | it looks in the picture so much than the then Jay too, that |
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23:14 | kind of expected to see something different them. Um, the grasses. |
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23:28 | an interesting point. The the length the spacing is really independent of this |
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23:40 | on Once you get a once, get a through going set, it's |
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23:47 | toe limit the length of all the set. So J to the length |
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23:52 | J two is going to be limited the spacing of J one. |
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23:58 | and the the length of J one could be almost infinite, depending on |
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24:12 | , uh, the area that's affected the food pressures and the depending on |
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24:19 | area that's affected by the fluid So I would expect, in all |
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24:26 | , for the length of the first to be very long and the length |
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24:31 | the 2nd and 3rd sets will be by the spacing of that J 17 |
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24:46 | , Mhm. Any other comments or on that questions? Okay, |
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25:08 | we'll go on a little bit. . One of the interesting things we've |
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25:18 | recently is that the joints that we at the surface and outcrop are not |
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25:24 | present in the subsurface. And when we this is an example of |
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25:33 | Marcellus joints and outcrop, you see J one here, Here, |
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25:39 | J twos here. Ah, butting the J ones in the subsurface Onley |
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25:48 | J twos or president. So we We don't see these j ones in |
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25:53 | subsurface. Yeah, and all over Northeast, in New York and |
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26:02 | But we get both of these joints . We get the northwest trending one |
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26:08 | the northeast trending one that represents the one and is parallel to the present |
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26:14 | of signal H backs. And in case, it is the signal |
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26:20 | the J two is northwest trending more less throughout this whole region. |
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26:28 | if we go south in Pennsylvania and and West Virginia, we see the |
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26:32 | relationships. We see a through going one set trending roughly Northeast and a |
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26:40 | trending J to set roughly perpendicular to J one. But when we look |
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26:50 | the subsurface data, uh, we see the J two step that northeast |
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26:57 | J once that is absent in the . And this comes from some work |
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27:02 | done by a Wilkins and Van Mountain in a PG bulletin. They looked |
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27:10 | , um, Warhol image logs and from several wells, uh, the |
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27:18 | where these red lines are the The solid spots represent areas where they |
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27:26 | core. The open circles represent where had image logs on. And in |
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27:33 | of these cases, they only saw Northwest training set. They never saw |
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27:37 | Northeast trending set. What's the reason that? Dancing subsurface. So that's |
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27:48 | an excellent question. Um, we that this Northwest training sent set is |
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27:57 | to the stresses at the time of Allegheny Nirajan e at the time of |
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28:02 | folding and thrusting that formed the major here Eso This was late Pennsylvanian |
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28:10 | And and we think that this orientation those compressive stresses. Um, in |
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28:21 | the other joint sets, we think the stresses imposed present day during |
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28:29 | So they formed much, much And at this Northeast orientation related to |
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28:36 | present day S H. Max shown by the arrows here and here. |
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28:41 | I think these guys formed early in pen perm Allegheny in and the Northeast |
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28:49 | ones that are absent in the subsurface during uplift in the present day stress |
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28:58 | . Thanks. Let's go. What's the, uh, that pitch max |
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29:03 | that, uh, southwestern part of map to be, uh, you |
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29:08 | , towards the Northeast? E there's like Cincinnati art right there. |
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29:14 | I didn't know. I didn't know was that setting right there. You |
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29:18 | , I honestly don't know the reason that. Um, it's, uh |
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29:31 | it's probably good. Yeah, I speculate, but I don't I don't |
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29:36 | know the reason for that. just . Thanks. Yeah, I could |
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29:43 | up a geology story, but I'll put my foot in my mouth for |
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29:47 | . So I won't, um it be worth going back to this article |
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29:53 | see if they if they explain Because I don't recall that we see |
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30:04 | similar thing in the Gulf Coast. there it's related to the are to |
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30:09 | Gulf of Mexico drifting and filling. I'm I'm not sure what it's related |
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30:16 | you here. I have a question Yes. So in this, in |
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30:24 | case, the principal stress is along the foot in parallel to the |
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30:31 | Right. Um, the the principal when they formed was parallel to the |
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30:41 | . The present, a principal stresses to that, but it's parallel to |
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30:48 | second joints that folks. Okay, ? So? So when When it's |
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30:56 | to them, it also needs to bigger than the perpendicular one. Which |
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31:00 | the one from from the top. . So does this mean that it |
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31:07 | higher than the overburden pressure? If I'm thinking about the overburden pressure |
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31:16 | , that its's the column off frog the fracture. Um, you think |
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31:24 | the you think about the overburden pressure . But when the IT present day |
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31:31 | the stress, the main stress in orientation these rocks are shallower than they |
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31:40 | earlier in their history. So the that they're experiencing now are actually |
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31:46 | then previously in their geologic history. , just because they're not buried is |
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31:57 | . Yeah, it's only at the when they form. Correct. |
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32:15 | Yeah. So this is the joints . Very interesting story there. Very |
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32:21 | features. So there's tons and tons tons of literature on them on |
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32:25 | Only in the last few years with drilling that we've gotten subsurface information that |
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32:34 | constrains the story on these. So toe summarize, uh, in |
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32:51 | outcrop, we see two very prominent sets, but only one of them |
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32:56 | J tube is present in the And we think that relates to the |
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33:03 | at the time of formation that this the Allegheny in compressive stress on in |
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33:10 | represents the present day compressive stress. . Allow these things to form during |
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33:18 | , and hence it much shallower Okay, so this now is a |
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33:27 | history for for the Marcellus shale. this? This layer represents the Marcellus |
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33:35 | . So it was initially deposited in mid Paleozoic, subsided to a maximum |
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33:46 | near the Paleozoic Mesozoic boundary, and subsequently was uplifted. Now, when |
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33:56 | look at the fluid inclusions in the , we see too high temperature populations |
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34:06 | one high, high temperature population that at maximum burial. And at this |
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34:16 | , the marshals would have been generating been generating gas. And we see |
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34:23 | the fluid inclusions to phase inclusions mostly , indicating that the fractures formed are |
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34:32 | this on this phase of of uh, during or I shortly after |
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34:37 | gas generation window. So those so joints had to form sometime. What |
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34:49 | it? Here in the the early during the beginning stages of uplift. |
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35:04 | have similar observations from the Eagle Ford in South Texas. The oil shale |
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35:08 | there. So this is a temperature . Ah, time getting from old |
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35:14 | young here on the top death here temporal. Sorry temperature here in degrees |
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35:22 | in this curve represents the burial history the Eagle furred. When we look |
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35:29 | bed, parallel and joint veins in eagle. Furred. Um, we |
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35:34 | that they contain hydrocarbons both oil and . And it's And that suggests that |
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35:40 | formed after the oil generation window or in the oil generation window somewhere here |
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35:46 | the first stages of up left. and so the uplifting unloading both here |
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35:53 | the Marcellus are important points are important in the generation of those joints. |
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36:07 | , so I have a little calculation for you. We just saw that |
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36:14 | joints Marcellus joints had to form it 25,000 ft T v d. Based |
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36:20 | the fluid inclusions. So what I you to do is to calculate the |
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36:27 | that's required to form those joints. so, in the in the overpressure |
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36:34 | is the flute pressure above hydrostatic. what? We know that we had |
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36:42 | total stress. Negative Sigma three High pressure, low differential stress. These |
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36:47 | all the requirements to get that stress over into the tensile failure realm. |
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36:53 | what I want you to calculators how that food pressure had to be to |
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36:58 | the stress circle over here or and can assume that the uh, signal |
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37:06 | is Sigma one, and that's gonna with that. At a rate of |
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37:10 | one PS I per foot, the stress is going to be about 70% |
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37:18 | that. So my minimum stresses Sigma , and it's gonna be about 70% |
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37:23 | the Sigma V, and then the water pressure increases with depth at a |
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37:29 | of about 0.455 p s soccer So given this information in that |
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37:37 | you can calculate what overpressure was required form the joints at this at this |
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37:45 | . Okay, um so go Solved that. Pull out your |
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37:53 | pull out your calculators. Mhm and on that. Let's see. I'll |
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38:01 | you I'll give you about 15 Take a break if you want, |
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38:09 | , and and do these calculations, when you're done, turn your video |
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38:15 | on so I can see when you're , and we can start to discuss |
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38:19 | answer. Maria, it'll be another minutes or so before we start |
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41:16 | So you might want to hold off recording until then. Sorry. Are |
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41:28 | any Yes. So I was just , um, it'll be another 10 |
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41:34 | or so Before we start discussing the , you might want to pause the |
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41:39 | for a while. That's okay. off. Yeah, I was just |
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41:52 | at it again. Um, so guess I'm I just wanna make sure |
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41:59 | get mine. What I'm doing is getting the 25,000 PSE for Sigma |
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42:07 | and then 70% of that is, , 7 18,050 at those together. |
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42:15 | then subtract that by the hydrostatic. pressure 32,000 bc, Um, you |
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42:25 | your one for three? Yeah. . Amir, what did you |
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42:39 | I went directly to the affected, I just subtracted the 25,000 pc from |
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42:46 | the hydrostatic pressure. I got 13 6 to 5, and, uh |
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42:59 | that's it. I wasn't sure if should switch it to the minimum component |
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43:03 | just use this one. Yeah. need to take the minimum component. |
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43:13 | , J d What did you Okay, So did a process similar |
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43:20 | Clayton. And then I figure that would need an overpressure greater than |
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43:29 | 125 pc. Yeah, that's The onset of fraction. Yeah, |
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43:40 | good. So the only thing I differently than Clayton was used that the |
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43:45 | men? Oh, yeah, it's critical. They use that. H |
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43:50 | that Sarah, What did you So I didn't tell her, but |
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44:00 | guess I used the box instead of men. But I did not. |
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44:09 | . I got 17 5. It's . When I out of those feelings |
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44:15 | traffic. Ps I Calculation. I 31 1 25. Okay. |
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44:24 | you don't You wouldn't add those to would just take the same age. |
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44:36 | . Yeah, Joseph, what did car groups It is that the same |
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45:09 | 61 25. I was just wondering negative Sigma three, though, |
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45:19 | And then just like overall low total that, like, relative to the |
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45:23 | that you're looking at, I think muted. See? Yeah, it's |
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45:36 | relative to that system. It's It's relative to that Sigma one. Sigma |
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45:54 | . Grant. Did you finish the ? Yeah, I did. E |
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46:00 | 25,000 PSC for signal wanted 17,500 PSC Sigma three. 11,375 p. |
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46:09 | I for the hydrostatic and then 6125 . S I over overpressure. |
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46:16 | It's perfect. I put it I that into an excel document. If |
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46:26 | you have to change is your I pressure change in your depth and you |
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46:31 | and sigma be you could pretty much that across the board. You think |
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46:35 | is a pretty good way to do ? Yes. Yes, absolutely. |
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46:42 | fact, when we when we talk , we'll talk about over pressures in |
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46:49 | weeks and we'll set ups. Um , figures and excel that judge Just |
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46:55 | based on this taking, taking when extrapolations of this. We used to |
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47:27 | that Shelley and P stood for Shell in Power Point because you could just |
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47:32 | so many problems in excel. Come . Okay, Daniel, Welcome |
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49:37 | What did you calculate? You're We can't hear you. Sorry. |
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49:57 | , yeah, I wasn't too Like I'm not I'm honestly not too |
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50:01 | what I did. E subjected 70% the 25,000 from 25,000 of them. |
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50:09 | that by 0.455 Um, Okay. you wanted to run Now let's calculate |
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50:25 | of that. 25,000. That gives the signal. Three, that you |
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50:31 | to, uh, get enough water to equal. And so then you |
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50:38 | that 70% of 25,000 and subtract the water pressure from that. And that |
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50:46 | gives you the over pressure that you Thio, Dr Sigma. 3 to |
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50:50 | or negative. So that put So 70% of that 25,000 is |
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51:05 | So you subtract, um, 0.455 17,500. You subtract the product of |
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51:16 | times 25,000. Okay, used. . Say I get up. 1 |
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51:37 | . Yeah. Yeah, that's Okay, so I've put up the |
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51:57 | here in red and the key thing , um, the key thing here |
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52:05 | that joints require the fluid pressure to equal Sigma three. They've got to |
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52:11 | greater than or equal to Sigma three . So first you need to calculate |
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52:18 | One. The 25,000 ft that gives our Sigma the that's 25,000 p s |
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52:27 | 25,000 ft, times one this 25,000 , and then the Sigma three is |
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52:33 | to be about 70% of that. I take 70% of that 25 and |
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52:39 | 17,500. That's the total fluid pressure I need to generate the joints. |
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52:49 | then I want to subtract my hydrostatic from that to get the overpressure. |
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52:56 | the next step is to calculate your pressure, which is the 0.455 times |
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53:02 | . That gives you 3 11,075. then if you subtract that from the |
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53:10 | that gives you the overpressure necessary for the joints, which is 6125 |
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53:17 | Um, so it's ah, calculating food pressures is a pretty straightforward |
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53:29 | The key thing to remember is that joints require food pressure equal or greater |
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53:35 | Sigma three time, and then these things. They're just straight algebra, |
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53:42 | linear functions. Um, you can can set this up in excel and |
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53:47 | a general solution with calculating each of as a function of depth. |
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53:53 | but for this for this particular all right, with the joints for |
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53:58 | in 25,000 ft. Need about 6000 . S. I overpressure Thio, |
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54:03 | enough overpressure to drive those joints. other comments or questions on that before |
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54:18 | move on? Okay, I will ahead. All right, So we're |
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54:56 | to go on and talk briefly about role of fluid pressures and hydro fractures |
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55:01 | hydro fractures form exactly the same as fractures. And the key is that |
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55:07 | fluid pressure reduces the stress. It the effective stress and the tensile. |
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55:14 | tensile failure requires those high food pressures we just calculated. Um and that's |
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55:20 | on the fracking sites, you see those pump trucks and tank trucks and |
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55:27 | pumps and huge of parallels to count to create the high fluid pressures that |
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55:34 | need to get the hydraulic fractures. see. Okay, So this was |
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55:50 | was another discussion point that I wanted have well, looking at a map |
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55:57 | the the Permian Basin in West all these blue lines in these green |
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56:03 | are ligaments of various sorts. Just those for For now, each one |
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56:08 | these red spots represents a well where have hydro fracture orientations from your whole |
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56:17 | logs. And you see, they're trending pretty consistently Northwest. They're a |
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56:23 | bit curvilinear, strongly northwest down here little bit. Maurice Tewes to appear |
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56:29 | the northern part of the basin. the point. I want to discuss |
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56:36 | . What does What does this tell about the strikes off signal H Max |
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56:42 | signal H men. Yeah, that some areas, the signem. It |
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57:00 | of some Mr Last almost like in middle in the north, right? |
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57:13 | . How about down here in the ? Yeah. Yeah. So? |
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57:24 | the hydraulic fractures air just like natural . They they strike in the orientation |
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57:30 | this big May age, max. then here the signage Max is basically |
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57:37 | southeast. Here, it's a little East west. Uh, here it's |
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57:42 | more East west again. Northwest, , over here. Home. And |
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57:48 | so, if that's my signal. Max, what's my signal? H |
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57:57 | ridiculous. Perpendicular to that? So Northeast, Southwest, over |
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58:04 | Little more north south here and appear north south for me. And so |
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58:14 | of you know this already. What's optimum orientation of, well, |
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58:19 | And why some of you know this your jobs perpendicular to the full direction |
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58:32 | enhance the recovery so perpendicular to which ? So it's a direction off signatory |
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58:44 | the direction of signatory and direction to to signal one. Yes, |
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58:49 | Exactly. Right. In that when you when you do a frack |
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58:56 | , you're opening fractures against the So the least signage men, the |
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59:03 | , the smallest horizontal stress. And get the most effect if, |
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59:09 | stimulation job. Yeah, so it took todo so like what? So |
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59:19 | the optimum has moved again. So the album, as myth |
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59:24 | is pretty much northeast Southwest. You go perpendicular to the So all these |
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59:32 | ? Yeah. Okay. Well, do you think about drilling? Update |
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59:37 | down? Dio. I don't think should make any difference. Do you |
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59:56 | you does Anybody have experience? I've always heard update balls or better |
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60:04 | of, uh, near wellbore And the hell the well, a |
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60:08 | of times they put, uh, The idea is to heal the |
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60:12 | You can put those, uh, and them better, and they have |
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60:16 | , better drainage. At least that's I've heard from my eagle for production |
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60:22 | . So excuse. Okay, That's a good point for me to |
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60:31 | . I wasn't aware of that. it's hard. It's hard to prove |
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60:37 | because then we tried toe, you ? Then then you really try to |
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60:40 | at rock properties along the lateral and your stages communicating? And it's, |
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60:47 | , it gets really, really in weeds. I don't know. I |
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60:51 | I don't have anything in either It's like whatever the reservoir engineer |
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60:54 | right. No, it's a hard or anything, but I'd say it's |
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61:00 | like Do you want to? Then like lips in there to try Thio |
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61:04 | the oil from the other end? your info like right? It doesn't |
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61:11 | more or less oil. Futural Update um, yeah, I'm scared in |
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61:19 | ways, and, uh, I've arguments on both sides. Nobody seems |
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61:23 | know you. Have you seen anything affects the declines? The declines I've |
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61:34 | are just very, very rapid and They They declined to a plateau, |
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61:44 | , and then hang around that plateau years. But the plateau was pretty |
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61:48 | compared to their early production inspires like toe down. I'm not really |
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61:56 | I'd say a lot of times when production goes away really fast, it's |
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62:00 | they just opened the choke right up the very beginning, as opposed |
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62:03 | like, slow, gradual. But just gonna be the economics. And |
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62:06 | did you want? Did you don't quick investment return or do you need |
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62:11 | timeto classical form? There seems to a parent child problem there, |
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62:18 | Like also related to lateral spacing. . You get him in to |
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62:25 | and they're they're just no good. , also, like not only just |
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62:32 | spacing, same benches. But, , you know, the company |
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62:36 | Oh, well, we have, know, five different intervals that we |
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62:40 | target here, and they're different separated these, uh, back barriers. |
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62:45 | then you go to you drill like the wolf camp, lower you drill |
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62:49 | can't be well and in a well an X and Y fans and a |
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62:53 | phone Well, all in the same . And, uh, they had |
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62:56 | assumption that there, um, multiple . But then when you go to |
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63:01 | . Um, it's there's tons of between between the different reservoirs. So |
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63:11 | what was it like a star? ahead. See? Oh, I |
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63:14 | just gonna say some of the work seen using, um, micro seismic |
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63:19 | to try and monitor the volume of rock that stimulated. It's it is |
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63:24 | huge volume, mhm, laterally and . I've seen that. And also |
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63:33 | used a tracer data or try to chemical traces tracers toe. So look |
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63:38 | , um, production flow back for parts of the lateral. And, |
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63:43 | , so we try to you try bring it all together, but it's |
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63:46 | difficult. It's really difficult. Doesn't tracers usually don't really tell you much |
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63:51 | the end. Least what? We it out. Okay, good. |
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64:10 | , well, so this was this more or less the answer that I |
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64:13 | you to get that from these poor image fractures. You're They're telling you |
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64:21 | the signage max is more or less here. It does deviate tomb or |
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64:26 | west up here in the northern part the basin. Signage men is going |
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64:31 | be perpendicular to that. So that's to be basically northeast southwest in that |
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64:36 | becomes the orientation of your optimal um, lateral. So, |
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64:42 | you drill northeast or southwest and hydrofracking generate fractures that air, hoping against |
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64:53 | least horizontal show opening against the minimum stress. And that gives you the |
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64:58 | effective frack job. Okay, the other interesting thing is how the |
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65:15 | H Max varies. So this is map of the whole Permian Basin, |
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65:23 | these black lines represent orientations of of signage, Max. And so here |
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65:33 | the southern part of the Delaware it's mostly southwest northeast, and then |
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65:38 | starts to trend more east west. he come into the northern part of |
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65:41 | basement we saw. And as you further north under the shelf, it |
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65:47 | becomes, uh, Mawr Northeast, and over to the middle and |
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65:53 | It's essentially East west. Wow. the signage Max varies quite a |
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66:02 | just over the scale off the basin here, where you're getting into the |
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66:13 | Basin here we're starting to see the of the Gulf of Mexico, opening |
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66:20 | the signal three oriented this way and H. Max oriented roughly parallel to |
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66:26 | coastline, Parallel to the off the faults that achieving the extension. |
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66:34 | and here we're we think we're still more basement range. Rio Grande Rift |
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66:42 | of influence over here. Okay, last topic today will be the impact |
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66:54 | natural fractures on well, performance. I've got a graph here Now, |
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67:01 | scatter plot that compares matrix permeability well, test permeability. So each |
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67:08 | point on here represents a point where have data from a core plug. |
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67:16 | gives me a nun fractured core plug gives me the matrix permeability. And |
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67:20 | see these, especially in, the unconventional reservoirs tend to be |
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67:25 | very low. And the Y axis gives me well, test permit abilities |
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67:34 | , uh, extended well, tests , um, from reservoir simulations from |
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67:42 | like that. Where the, uh have Well, you have actual, |
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67:45 | , data to back out a permeability the stimulated volume Iraq. And, |
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68:00 | , each one of these lines represents order of magnitude increase. So this |
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68:05 | 1 to 1 where the wealth test in the matrix permeability are the |
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68:11 | This is where the well test perm 10 times the matrix 100 times the |
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68:17 | . 1000 up to 10,000 times the in what this shows is how the |
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68:24 | permeability of fractured reservoirs is just up 10,000 times greater than the main. |
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68:31 | , fractured matrix permeability. The blue here are all naturally fractured reservoirs. |
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68:39 | red triangles here are all stimulated. francs, reservoirs. Mhm. And |
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68:45 | all show pretty much the same. trends. The Hydra Fracked reservoirs. |
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68:50 | course, you're only going to do where you have the loan matrix. |
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68:54 | , ease. But the hydraulic fractures the same effect of increasing the effect |
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69:00 | permeability by several orders of magnitude so naturally fractured reservoirs and hydraulically stimulated reservoirs |
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69:10 | the same trends. So those were carbonate reservoirs in? No, they're |
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69:16 | mix of carbonates and classics. Oh, my. I was gonna |
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69:41 | a question on the side. Can hear me? Yes. Go |
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69:44 | Okay. Great. I'll just Can comment on? I've always found interesting |
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69:48 | we used to monitor, um, heavily while we were completing wells. |
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69:54 | it was just interesting to think about you could see communication well, the |
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70:01 | and you know, you're fracturing your these higher poor affirm systems while you're |
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70:07 | the job. But it was interesting we found that you see, |
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70:12 | events, you know, up to to 14 days after you complete some |
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70:17 | the world. So it was interesting you saw such a hot, you |
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70:20 | , communicate high amount communication early And then that pressure was still still |
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70:26 | in the system for, ah, time after that, in the in |
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70:31 | unconventional reservoirs. Um, I guess makes sense because the the permeability the |
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70:43 | is so low that you won't dissipate pressures through the through the matrix. |
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70:49 | they Well, because of that, linger on for an extended period of |
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70:55 | . Uh, all right, because of this on, we've always |
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71:12 | that natural fractures will enhance the productivity the reservoir. Right. And there's |
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71:21 | a quick bit of literature on that back to this figure, particularly the |
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71:27 | . I always thought that all these fractures, even even the J twos |
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71:33 | the J ones, would help of well productivity. Um, in |
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71:42 | that's true function knows there uh, that flow per unit area should be |
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71:50 | function of fracture intensity. So here looking at discharge or flow per unit |
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71:57 | and and in the numerator is We have fracture at that. Your |
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72:02 | the fracture spacing Hello gravity and the density. And then in the numerator |
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72:11 | , in the numerator I'm sorry. the numerator we have fracture spacing. |
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72:15 | , D h is the d does head radiant are fracture Spacing is in |
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72:22 | numerator in in use the the fluid . And so for fractures the the |
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72:32 | fracture spacing you have in the wider you will get mawr discharge per unit |
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72:39 | . So by adding natural fractures to rock volume, you would be increasing |
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72:47 | and decreasing d and you would expect mawr flow from naturally fractured reservoirs than |
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72:57 | . Okay, but what we see is that that's not really the |
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73:03 | Um, we did a study of Permian Wolf camp comparing natural fractures and |
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73:10 | with production data. And so we through, I don't know, a |
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73:15 | feet of core logging the number of per foot of core. And this |
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73:20 | a graph of one of those cores we have measured death here as the |
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73:27 | axis a number of fractures per foot as the X axes. So you |
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73:35 | , in the core we've got natural ranging up to 10 national fractures per |
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73:41 | of core and averaging sort of five per foot, of course. So |
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73:45 | have pretty intensity, pretty high intensity natural fractures, and we compared that |
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73:53 | well declined curves from nearby wells. wherever we had a at a |
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73:59 | well, we tried to find production that was close to that cord. |
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74:05 | , and here we're looking at a of barrels per day versus days on |
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74:11 | . The black is oil barrels per , green is water barrels per |
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74:16 | And you see these decline really rapidly the first 1 to 200 days and |
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74:22 | kind of platt throughout. Ah, . Atwater values around 4 to 500 |
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74:29 | a day versus oil values of 1 200 barrels a day. And then |
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74:33 | just go on for years. the decline of these is very, |
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74:39 | gradual. Oh, in this gradual in this gradual dissipation off pressure is |
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74:49 | to what I think you're seeing with , uh, with the decline of |
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74:54 | the Hydra Fracked pressures. And it's take a long time for those fractures |
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74:58 | those pressures to decline. All there are in the Permian. We |
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75:11 | all kinds of fractions. We have , uh, joins thes near vertical |
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75:16 | shown by the red arrows. and we have a few bed parallel |
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75:22 | , but the joints in your vertical represent about 80% of the fractures. |
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75:28 | , some of the joints are Some of them, like this |
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75:31 | are partially submitted or completely open. , and these are the ones where |
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75:37 | see sort of 52 10 of these per foot of core, and we |
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75:44 | see many veins. We see, , less than one vein for plus |
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75:49 | parallel vein for foot of core. , Right. And one of the |
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75:58 | things about the premium is that they're There's no mechanicals photography. So here's |
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76:03 | correlation. Suspecting, looking at 12345 wells are. And these were the |
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76:13 | of the different wolf camp formations. is preferentially fractured compared to, |
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76:36 | one of the other one of the members. It's all pretty comparably, |
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76:42 | fractured. So no, no, distinct mechanicals photography. And this is |
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76:54 | graph now preparing the fractures with the data. So on the X axis |
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77:00 | have the near vertical natural fractures per , of course. So this is |
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77:04 | natural fractures and these air just just joints both cemented and un cemented. |
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77:11 | on the Y axis here I have per day on a logarithmic scale, |
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77:17 | oil was shown in black water was in blue. Uh, the oil |
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77:23 | pretty consistent at around 1 to 200 a day. The water bounces around |
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77:29 | little bit from sort of 500 toe barrels a day with one outlier here |
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77:35 | greater with, like 20,000 barrels a , all right, and really no |
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77:42 | of the production rates with the natural intensity. Um, and what we |
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77:51 | we include concluded from that is just The intensity of the hydraulic fractures must |
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77:57 | overwhelmed the abundance of the natural And we we also compare a core |
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78:11 | some hydraulic through a hydraulically fractured I looked at both the natural and |
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78:16 | induced fractures, and we can We differentiate the two based on these characteristics |
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78:25 | the of the induced fractures, the fractures, you have really irregular |
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78:31 | You don't see the nice clean surfaces we see like a natural joints. |
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78:37 | see all these sort of unique little features on the stimulated fractures that we |
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78:44 | see unnatural joints. And we see lot of steps in the stimulated fractures |
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78:49 | we don't see in the natural So we could use these things to |
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78:54 | the hydra fractures from the natural fractures this plot. Now shows on compares |
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79:05 | number of hydraulic fractures with the number natural fractures and thieves come from a |
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79:14 | deviated well latter like this. It from a well in the middle and |
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79:19 | . So not in the Not in wolf therapist, none of the Delaware |
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79:24 | proper over in the middle of And, uh, within that |
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79:30 | we see lots of fractures at Various orientations, mostly high angle to |
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79:35 | , uh to the well bore Down on the bottom, I have a |
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79:42 | of number of fractures per foot of versus, uh, measured depth along |
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79:49 | lateral here. And the hydraulic fractures shown in the blue. And then |
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79:57 | two sets of natural fractures here in brown and in the green. And |
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80:02 | this shows is that the intensity of hydraulic fractures is just much, much |
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80:08 | than either or both sets off natural over the length of this lateral |
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80:17 | we average 0.35 hydraulic fractures per foot core compared 2.16 natural fractures per foot |
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80:25 | core. So the hydraulic fracture intensity twice the natural fracture intensity. And |
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80:34 | think that's why the hydraulic fractures just overwhelmed contributions of the natural fractures in |
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80:41 | core. Um, so in these these Permian Basin wells, the intensity |
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80:50 | the natural fractures just doesn't really It's completely overwhelmed by the intensity of |
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80:55 | hydraulic fractures. Right. Um, I'm going going to summarize and wrap |
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81:04 | here of four. This section on and Jim mechanics we talked about. |
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81:12 | have three generic types of fractures mode , Moto two and Moto three. |
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81:17 | mainly interested in the Mode one. are the tensile fractures the joints and |
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81:22 | bed, parallel fractures or beef. air fractures with no fracture parallels here |
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81:27 | any direction. The mode to in most tree have a sheer component in |
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81:33 | , uh in the plane of the , and the lack of that sheer |
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81:37 | is what distinguishes Mode one from these guys. It makes the mode one |
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81:42 | pure opening or pure tensile joints gee, mechanically. These tensile fractures |
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81:50 | high fluid pressures and load deviate orrick . So, um, so we |
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81:55 | to have that high, high fluid in a small stress circle to get |
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82:00 | stress circle over into the negative part the more cruel diagram. Low TV |
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82:07 | T V tour stress means, the small, small diameter to that |
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82:12 | that signal one minus Sigma three is . The difference between the stress is |
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82:18 | small. That difference is also important that's what enables a different joints. |
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82:24 | to form in different orientations. Because stresses are comparable in value, it's |
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82:30 | for signal one sigma three toe to . Sure, the budding relationships give |
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82:37 | the relative timing of the different joints , and this is what distinguishes J |
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82:43 | vs Jake versus J three. And on. PLOO. Most features we |
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82:48 | on the joints indicate the propagation direction each individual joint. The strike of |
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82:55 | joints equals the strike of the signal . Max at the time of |
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83:01 | So we can we can use that strike to constrain what that signal |
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83:06 | Max was at the time of joint . Mhm both the joints in the |
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83:12 | . Parallel fractures require high food They require that to get that stress |
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83:17 | far over to the left in that realm. Uh huh. The |
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83:22 | the bed, parallel fractures implied that fluid pressure approximately equals the overburden. |
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83:29 | these guys are signal. One is , are signatory, is vertical. |
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83:34 | so we're opening these bed parallel fractures Sigma three against the way of the |
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83:40 | column. And the fluid pressure to that has to be approximately equal to |
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83:44 | overburden. Thanks. Many he joins during uplift. So, like we |
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83:55 | about Marcellus andan, the eagle furd the joints, the joints have to |
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84:00 | during the early to late stages of . And what that means is |
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84:07 | What that implies it is that the and outcrop are not necessarily what we |
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84:14 | in the subsurface. So thinking back the Marcellus, we see those two |
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84:19 | sets an outcrop. But only one them, the less prominent one, |
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84:22 | present in the subsurface and hydro fractured . Intensity of hydro fractures is just |
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84:30 | , much greater than the intensity than intensity of the natural fractures. And |
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84:37 | of that, the intensity of the fractures has little to no effect on |
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84:42 | , performance in these hydraulically stimulated Okay, so questions or comments or |
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84:54 | ? This is where I was going stop for this session. I like |
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85:03 | you say insensitive natural fractures has no of, well performance. And I |
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85:07 | . I did like to see that because, ah, lot of times |
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85:10 | hear or I've heard the people You know, when they kinda can't |
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85:14 | they run out of ways to describe the well is doing better than their |
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85:17 | beating type period or something like they'll default. Thio. Oh, |
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85:21 | must be naturally fractured. Like I've it used this kind of like a |
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85:25 | out. Well, performance so All , it's interesting to see that. |
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85:30 | , we actually, we initiated that because that was our working assumption. |
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85:37 | we thought that we could use the data help predict the productivity of the |
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85:42 | . And we were kind of taken when we saw that there was not |
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85:46 | correlation. It wasn't what we expected find eyes. Is there a limit |
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86:05 | terms of death for the tensile Because, according to point number |
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86:10 | I was going, I was almost to conclude that it only happens in |
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86:15 | shallow section because of the requirements of law. The Theodoric stress. So |
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86:23 | guess the question is, how how is it toe happen in in a |
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86:28 | section, Or or it's mostly limited the shell sections? No, it |
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86:35 | common in the deeper sections as well the deeper sections just require higher fluid |
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86:44 | . Okay, so in the in shallow section, you can generate those |
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86:49 | low fluid pressure, but you can generate him. It creates depth as |
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86:54 | as you have high fluid pressure. the case of the Marcellus, from |
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87:09 | subsurface data, we saw that one set was present at depths of, |
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87:15 | , you know, 15 to 25,000 . So they're still forming at those |
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87:20 | depths. It just requires high food to do that. Have you seen |
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87:52 | asked one last question. Have you a correlation between discreet fracture network modeling |
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87:58 | and any I mean, have you worked or done any DFM work or |
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88:03 | any products from that? And correlated back to, like, maybe micro |
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88:06 | maker etcetera for for some of these fractures or induced fractures, I haven't |
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88:16 | it for induced tractors. I've seen lot of it from Oman incorporated reservoirs |
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88:26 | naturally fractured reservoirs. Mhm. And there it's it It's a little bit |
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88:37 | because they're they use the production data , uh, to help constrain |
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88:43 | The fracture intensity and the extent of discreet fracture networks is mhm. So |
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88:56 | , uh I'm not sure of the predictive value of those defense, I |
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89:06 | if you have ah dfm with a of calibration wells, then you have |
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89:10 | good control points and it should be . And yeah, I've seen that |
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89:18 | natural fractures, but not for induced . Yeah. So the E |
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89:23 | The study was they had fiber, , around some world wars, her |
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89:29 | wells, cyber case, cyber And they're monitoring the wells while they |
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89:33 | completing them. And then they were to link that back toe some of |
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89:36 | models that they had for the section they drilled it to see if, |
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89:43 | , they thought their FRACKED network is to do what? They thought their |
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89:47 | models were. Correct or not? , that would be interesting to |
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89:53 | I haven't I haven't seen any results that. Mhm. It sure would |
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89:57 | an interesting, interesting study. Did see? Were they able to conclude |
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90:04 | from that? That is actually really . So you could It's called Alexa |
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90:08 | company and the, uh, you monitor it real time. So it's |
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90:13 | a zoo long as the fibers live it stays in the well permanently because |
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90:17 | cemented casing. Um, you could with it something that the life of |
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90:22 | are like Indian hot basins. It's very, very good, but but |
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90:26 | can definitely see communication and really what trying. They see large liniment that |
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90:31 | correlate from maybe seismic or known But some of the interesting is to |
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90:37 | to see what fracture networks are outside what you can see in seismic or |
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90:41 | what you video? Uh huh. know, I know. In the |
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90:54 | chalk, the contribution of the fractures ah is a big unknown. A |
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91:01 | question that the the well productivity suggests lot more contribution from the fractures then |
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91:13 | we would expect, given the given amount of data that we have constraining |
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91:17 | fractures, given what we think is fracture intensity, Um, and I |
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91:23 | know where that is heading. We the we did something very similar in |
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91:28 | bacon where you have metal baking wells 34 12 and say we did for |
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91:33 | wells per section. And when we completing our, uh, middle blocking |
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91:38 | , you would you would start. the first five or six stages for |
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91:42 | three foreclose pressure up the system is the assumption was. And then you |
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91:47 | fracking your middle blocking wells and then know you track, you know simultaneously |
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91:52 | that, but you get it, get a jump start a couple stages |
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91:55 | your three forks walls is all used do this interest. And they were |
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92:00 | lower Well, so the thought process you. You pressure at the lower |
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92:03 | . So you're so you don't lose middle blocking. Frank's just, |
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92:08 | because you've got the upper blocking layer it. So we thought that all |
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92:11 | our fax we're gonna be probably getting instead of going up? Yes. |
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92:19 | did the what did the declines look in the bacon? They are insanely |
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92:24 | and like, there was saying we to go from from nothing to a |
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92:28 | like open choking in almost 48 are think it was a lesson. 48 |
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92:34 | sometimes. And so they're Declines are . I think we had some. |
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92:39 | were 11,000 b o E. In hour period. And then, |
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92:45 | I mean that I think they drop . I mean, 200 say level |
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92:49 | like 15 1600 barrels after 90 Something like that. Water cuts aren't |
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92:56 | . The water cuts are really First like 10%. And then, |
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92:59 | you get once you hit bubble point drop off the light or they are |
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93:02 | Sorry. It comes up to Yeah, it comes up pretty |
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93:05 | It's pretty, very substantial. Um, it's interesting. In the |
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93:14 | , those water cups stay fairly They you get that initial high, |
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93:19 | then it declines rapidly, and then just plateaus. But and most of |
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93:23 | wells, it doesn't increase again. just keeps slowly declining. Yeah, |
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93:29 | something like it's the same story in Austin chalk in Louisiana. There's that |
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93:33 | play, that Kanako and Marathon um E I think there was one |
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93:38 | player that used to be in but the wells air 1000 barrels a |
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93:42 | , but 90% water, so and , yes, Mhm. You |
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93:55 | I was afraid that would be a for the Permian. That just the |
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93:59 | disposal problem? Well, that's got . That's got its own set of |
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94:07 | . So they a lot of that is, um, is truck north |
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94:12 | Dallas and over and across the border Oklahoma and, uh, injected in |
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94:18 | deep injection wells. And when they that, they see, um, |
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94:25 | earthquakes. And you can imagine what just went through that. When they |
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94:29 | that water down and pressure up whatever they're putting it into, they're going |
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94:35 | . They're gonna induce small faults and from pressuring up those reservoirs. You |
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94:49 | , actually, if you if you're . If the, uh, Oklahoma |
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94:53 | , like, a Twitter page and have a really good map on |
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94:56 | Okay, g s website, and you could has a really good |
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95:01 | map that you can watch all of . I think it SAARC live web |
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95:04 | . You can watch all the and it's pretty much every about 15 |
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95:07 | minutes. There's person that there's some right now. Maybe not so much |
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95:12 | year, since there's been less but Okay, Wow, that's That's |
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95:20 | That's pretty intense. Every 15 20 . I'll have to go look for |
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95:25 | . That sounds entertaining. I was looking at some production from some of |
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95:39 | well that I steered in the Eagle and some of the better ones. |
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95:45 | know, they'll come on with the joke it 3 400 barrels of oil |
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95:51 | day, and then I'm looking at one. That's about 18 months |
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95:57 | and it's doing about 100 under barrels day. Mhm at 64th. So |
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96:06 | Net's. That's a pretty aggressive decline . That's one of the better |
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96:09 | too. Stuff in that part of eagle food. I have a |
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96:28 | Um, Professor, were you involved ? Are you familiar with? I'm |
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96:33 | you're familiar with it, but shell the U shaped lateral the horizontal. |
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96:42 | you shape letter? No, nothing that. Yeah. Shell drill the |
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96:46 | , it's kind of really interesting on went like that. Sorry. And |
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96:55 | ? They did it. It was U shaped well, so if they |
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96:58 | they drilled the well, they landed . And they kicked all the way |
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97:02 | and they drilled all the and then frack this half. They skipped the |
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97:05 | stages, and then they frack the half. So the theory was instead |
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97:08 | putting four wells, are you four or two wells in the section? |
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97:13 | this real one. Well, not heal section of one of the wells |
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97:18 | then just complete the laterals on both them. How? How far |
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97:23 | With laterals. Um, let's I'm not sure what? The space |
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97:30 | requirements for the basin that they were that would have that would. I'm |
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97:34 | to think I don't really know. stopped my head. I'm sure it |
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97:36 | have been too far because I don't what the deviation was on the curve |
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97:40 | when the bend. But you should it up. I think there's a |
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97:43 | sure there's an article out there on , but a friend of mine worked |
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97:46 | the company that they did all the data for on, uh, they |
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97:49 | it was really, really interesting. . Did they? Did they see |
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97:56 | between the laterals? Oh, for . Especially in the hell section. |
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98:01 | , I just thought up an It says it's about 1300 ft between |
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98:05 | two. It's interesting. I'll have have to dig up some information on |
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98:25 | one. See what I could Mhm. Well, the other the |
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98:31 | one that was supposed to be just magical thing was the cubic play. |
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98:37 | know if you all heard about tell us if Well, I'm |
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98:41 | I'm not too educated on it. gonna have thio the internet right |
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98:45 | but uh, who is it? There's a West Texas thing, of |
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98:52 | . And they just decided to dio treat the rock is a cube and |
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98:59 | just kind of put the wells in this. And the spacing was just |
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99:04 | . I'll probably give me well, of a non starter can't can't really |
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100:06 | anything good on it. But the is that you just drill multiple layers |
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100:11 | the same time and in a cubic , and you just end up with |
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100:15 | insanely close, well, spacing, frack them all together they were in |
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100:28 | in instances like that in the where there's getting to the point where |
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100:32 | where they're doing so many in fields because the wealth that originally drilled in |
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100:36 | section they had older completion techniques. instead of going back in and cleaning |
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100:40 | all those cast iron bridge blood, just drill a well right inside of |
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100:43 | and then used updated. So there's instances where I've steered Wells where we're |
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100:49 | over top of one well, and drilling this section and then finishing the |
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100:54 | above the next. Well, so you've got multiple anti collision hazards Just |
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100:59 | in one section at one World I had a question, JD. |
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101:30 | until unless I was pulled up. you. Um, I'm still |
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101:39 | Okay. Yes. So, Steve did this project where and, um |
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101:45 | , the company didn't want to spend on any new data sets thio figure |
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101:52 | out. So what they did was took my law gas shows from the |
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101:56 | bore. Yeah, from the And we would say any time that |
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102:00 | saw, um, and he just spikes in total gas, not |
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102:07 | We normalize it for some other drilling . R a p and cork and |
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102:13 | pump speed, that kind of We did a correction for that. |
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102:16 | then we just tried to figure out the, um, fracture networks, |
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102:23 | , or like, large fracture networks , um, contributing to the |
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102:27 | And we thought maybe by seeing some those gas shows along the lateral, |
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102:30 | could help correlate different. Let me that, you know, they may |
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102:34 | in communication. So you think that it was kind of a rough science |
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102:40 | we couldn't make much of a but you think that would be, |
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102:43 | , justifiable, you know? I think that's I think that's |
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102:48 | Um, when? What? When we drilled through service. Seismic |
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102:57 | faults. And the especially the damage around those faults. We often |
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103:03 | um, gas shows even take And so those who's false and damaging |
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103:11 | definitely contributing, um, to the in the well for sure. |
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103:38 | J d. Any luck? I'm really striking out here. I |
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103:51 | even remember the company that was pioneering . Forget it. Forget I ever |
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103:57 | it. It's not happening. Uh . Yeah. All right. |
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104:05 | if you do stumble on it, could bring it up in one of |
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104:07 | next sessions. There's obviously a lot interest. All right, so, |
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104:22 | , I'll wrap up there for the . If you have any more comments |
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104:26 | questions or discussion points, we can with those, but, um, |
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104:31 | gone through everything that I wanted to for the day. So, |
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104:35 | we'll wrap up unless you have anything you want to discuss. I put |
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104:50 | article I found in the check. was it was in Kana that was |
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104:55 | it is everything that we went through today. What's gonna be on the |
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105:08 | room or is also stuff on next ? Gonna be included. Also stuff |
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105:13 | next Friday? Yes, from And go through. We'll go through a |
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105:20 | of everything. The last session, couple hours before them in term. |
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105:27 | ? And then my my plan for midterm was Thio. Take take two |
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105:32 | . I would email you the test have you email it back to me |
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105:38 | the end of two hours on. I was gonna email it as a |
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105:43 | word document that you could then type or or drawn. And then just |
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105:50 | that Neil, email it back to . That way I could give you |
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106:03 | . Ah, more creative, thought questions. Maybe give you some realistic |
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106:20 | . All right, Good. We'll a good week. I'll see you |
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106:23 | next. Next Friday afternoon. Thanks lot. Thank you. Thank |
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