Schlumberger intros reservoir stimulation design software

Offshore Mag reports.

Mangrove offers the Completion Advisor for perforation picking and staging that leverages accurate reservoir definition, and includes predictive complex hydraulic fracture as well as conventional planar fracture models.

Measurements and information including seismic, geological, geomechanical and micro-seismic data can be integrated with a reservoir simulator to integrate seismic-to-simulation workflow.

According to Your Oil and Gas News, Mangrove methodology has already been used to optimise completion designs in the Marcellus shale, in North America, eliminating screen outs and increasing production by more than 50% on one well.

The Mangrove Completion Advisor workflow enabled the customer to engineer custom staging and perforation designs instead of geometric perforation designs, thereby enhancing stimulation coverage, flow rates and ROI.

The Mangrove software and methodology currently is available to customers only through Schlumberger engineering services.