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• Integrated Reservoir Fracturing and Completion Study to Maximize Productivity of Individual Niobrara Wells in Yuma County, Colorado, R.E. Blauer, B.D. Brady, D.L. Holcomb, F.L. Robinson, SPE 36469, October 1996.
  

  ABSTRACT

  Integrated Reservoir Fracturing and Completion Study to Maximize Productivity of Individual Niobrara Wells In Yuma County, Colorado

  Consistently and continuously applied fracturing, reservoir and production engineering used to increase recovery from a original production low-permeability and low-pressure dry-gas reservoir has approximately doubled the initial production rate and the estimated ultimate recovery expected from new wells. The on-going costs of the additional engineering and technology to sustain the increased productivity of this reservoir is a few cents per MCF. As a result, new wells can be drilled and produced economically, the selection criteria for acceptable infill and exploration locations is greatly expanded, and proven gas reserves for both the new wells and the region are increased. Significant performance improvement can be achieved using a minimum number of wells, consistently collected data, and continuous review of performance changes caused by completion procedures changes. Exploitation optimization is an evolutionary process, not a one time study.