SYSTEM, METHOD, & COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT TO DETERMINE PLACEMENT OF FRACTURE STIMULATION POINTS USING MINERALOGY

摘要

The present invention generally relates to fracture completion strategies and more specifically, to optimizing the placement of fracture intervals based upon a mineralogical analysis of the formation. Conventionally, a very simplistic approach is used to determine fracture initiation points along a wellbore. The first fracture point is selected at random or based upon gas shows encountered while drilling (with weight given to low gamma sections), and the subsequent fracture points are evenly spaced apart from one another. This approach is based on the assumption that there is very little geological and mineralogical variation along the length of the well bore.