GRI Advanced Stimulation Technologies Improve Production in Rose Run Formation

Over the past several years, Belden & Blake Corporation has been working in cooperation with the Gas Research Institute (GRI) on the application of Advanced Stimulation Technologies (AST) to the Rose Run Formation in Randolph Township, Ohio. The objective of the project was to use AST to design and implement a more effective hydraulic fracture treatment which would in turn improve production. Several AST technologies were used to develop a reservoir description and design an improved hydraulic fracture treatment. The newly designed treatment used crosslinked fluids to place more sand at higher concentrations with less total fluid volume. Real-time fracture diagnostics and modeling were used to help place proppant and refine the reservoir description. After the treatments, production data was collected and compared to offset wells that had been stimulated with a variety of treatments (linear gel, CO 2 foam). The production comparison showed that the treatment developed through the use of AST, which used more proppant at higher concentrations, out performed past treatments in both oil and gas production.