By some estimates as many as half of the perforation clusters in geometric shale hydraulic fracturing plans are not effectively stimulated, resulting in under-producing wells.
Obtaining the data needed to better place the frack clusters has required additional logging runs and rig time, until now.
A new process for planning frack jobs relies on data the drillers already gather. As the shale plays in the US have matured, drillers carried out increasingly fewer logging runs, resulting in less data about the lateral.
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