Transcend Customized Chemistry Improves Well Performance

Halliburton's solution enables significant improvement in production

In the Permian region, Halliburton worked with a Midland Basin operator to incorporate customized chemistry into its fracturing designs. Using a structured design approach that included reservoir analysis, fracture fluid lab testing, and fracture design, Halliburton customized a fracturing fluid using Transcend™ permeability enhancers. Implementing the customized fluid design to the fracture treatments improved load recovery and increased barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) by 61 percent when compared to offset wells not utilizing the Transcend service.

Custom chemistry was key to the solution

Through our targeted design approach and ongoing collaboration with the customer, a solution was developed to improve production with minimal changes to the completion. At the core of the solution was Transcend chemistry, optimized with the Halliburton RockPerm service. Coupled together with our expert guidance provides a testing protocol solution based on sound stimulation fluid and reservoir engineering principles. The RockPerm service is a laboratory testing service performed by specially trained technicians in local-area labs. This process provides pre-stimulation scientific testing with actual formation cuttings, reservoir fluids, and treatment fluids and additives.

The testing assesses fluid and reservoir response to stimulation fluid additives. Assessment allows Halliburton engineers to optimize the fluid design to improve stimulation treatment success and overall reservoir production. With the cuttings and formation fluid samples and using the proposed stimulation fluids, the RockPerm service was performed to determine an optimized permeability enhancer package for improving fluid mobility in the formation, ultimately resulting in increased production. 

Transcend permeability enhancer brings results

After testing and analysis were completed, the operator agreed with the fluid recommendations and implemented the design changes on the next well. Utilizing the RockPerm service allowed Halliburton engineers to not only design the best additive, the Transcend product permeability enhancer but also implement it in the most effective concentration. The stimulation treatment was completed as per the design. After the treatment, as compared to similar offset wells, the wells with the Transcend service demonstrated higher load recovery. Additionally, compared to offset wells, the first three months of initial production demonstrated a 61 percent increase in BOE, and incremental production revenue exceeded USD 1.7 million.