American Oil and Gas Reporter - November 2017 - 74

SpecialReport: Service and Supply Startups
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Diverter 2

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Diverter 1

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Reveal Energy Services says its pressure-based fracture maps enable operators to
validate their completion design on every well in several ways. In this example, the
monitor well, far right, evaluated the effectiveness of individual diverter drops for two
diverter types. Diverter 1, the better choice, stopped fracture growth in 11 percent of the
drops, impeded fracture growth in 53 percent, and had no impact in 36 percent.

and get rapid feedback on whether those
changes improved performance," he reports.
The rapid feedback allows operators
to test multiple completion ideas and
zero in on the one that is most effective,
Kashikar adds. "A customer interested in
evaluating diversion techniques might
deploy one in the first four stages, then
modify the technique or switch to another
based on our feedback," he says. "By the
end of the pad, the customer will be able
to evaluate two or three diversion materials
and techniques, and identify the combination that gave the best results."
The physics that turn surface pressure
measurements into details on fracture
geometry, proppant placement, diversion
effectiveness, cluster efficiency and depletion boundaries are complex but proven,
Kashikar asserts. He says Reveal Energy
Services has validated its results by comparing them with ones from other technologies, such as microseismic and distributed acoustic sensing/distributed temperature sensing.
"This pressure-based fracture map
technology has worked extremely well
in every project where it has been applied,"
he reports. "We have deployed it on
almost 1,500 stages across seven basins
in the United States and Canada, including
the Permian, Eagle Ford, STACK/SCOOP,
Woodford, Marcellus and Bakken. Every
customer that has used it has continued
to use it."
Tiny Production Booster
Phoenix Chemical Technologies spent
eight years refining a suite of chemicals
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containing an extremely small tetrahedral
silicate monomer that boosts production
by weakening surface tension between
oil and rock, relates Shawn Kurtz,
Phoenix's founder. He attributes much
of the service company's success to the

monomer, for it made Phoenix's flagship
paraffin inhibitors extremely effective.
Through a new company, Mako Chemicals & Services, Kurtz says he is distributing chemicals containing the
monomer to the industry. Because it dislodges oil and leaves behind a coating
that reduces friction and protects metal
from corrosion and scale, he says the
monomer can enhance friction reducers
and scale, corrosion and paraffin inhibitors.
"The monomer reduces friction like a
surfactant but has none of the adverse effects," Kurtz reports. "Because it is inorganic rather than organic, it does not
create emulsions or leave residuals that
restrict production by plugging pores.
This simplifies chemical programs by
eliminating the need to follow the treatment
with others that exist solely to deal with
emulsions."
According to Kurtz, the monomer has
two other advantages. First, it is green.
At a customer's request, Kurtz says he
can get a product that uses the monomer
certified by NSF, an organization that
develops and enforces health, safety and

Mako Chemicals & Services' products often contain a tiny tetrahedral silicate monomer
that reduces friction, mobilizes oil, dislodges paraffin, and prevents corrosion and scale.
Unlike comparable products (left), the company says the monomer (right) works without
leaving behind formation-plugging emulsions.

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