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FracFit

Solution Increased Post-fracture Treatment
Production

63%
Location,

Wolfcamp Shale, Texas

50,000
Results
Increased initial oil production by 63%
40,000

Reduced per barrel cost
Optimized well
63%
Barrels (cumulative oil)

Non-optimized well improvement Challenges


30,000
Improve shale production economics using
reduced data set
20,000 Optimize fracturing treatment in
heterogeneous reservoir
Improve fracture coverage to increase
10,000 production rates

0 Baker Hughes solution


FracFit fracturing optimization solution
1 16 31 46 61 76 91
RoqSCAN wellsite mineralogical analyzer
Days of production

During the first 95 days, production was 63% higher in the well treated with the FracFit solution

working in the Permian Basin region of


An operator properties derived from the RoqSCAN analysis.
Texas wanted to improve production economics in This information enabled optimal spacing of stages
the Wolfcamp
Shale by improving the post hydraulic and clusters, and uniform fracture initiation and
fracture well treatment with a reduced data set of propagation, which resulted in an improved
mud logging
information. production contribution from each cluster.

The operator
contacted Baker Hughes to provide a The post-fracture oil production of the well treated
solution. Baker Hughes recommended a holistic with the FracFit solution significantly outperformed
FracFit fracturing optimization solution to the geometrically completed offset well. During the

characterize the lateral and improve the fracturing first 95 days of production, the well treated with the
process and resultsas well as improve completion FracFit solution produced 63% more oil than the
for one of the two wells in the fracturing campaign. non-optimized well.
The other well would be geometrically completed
and used as a reference to gauge the success of the
FracFit solution.

Using the RoqSCAN wellsite mineralogical


analyzer, Baker Hughes identified the like-type rock
to unify the fracturing initiation based on the rock

Like-type rock was identified with the RoqSCAN analyzer to unify the fracturing initiation

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