Mangrove

Multistage completion and hydraulic fracture design software

Applications
■■ Tight gas and shale reservoirs
■■ Single or group of wells
■■ Vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells
■■ Multistage completion design
■■ Hydraulic fracture design
■■ Post-treatment evaluation

Benefits
■■ Single platform that provides seamless
integration through seismic-to-simulation
solution
■■ Logical engineering based approach to
Showing simulated hydraulic fractures using 3D mechanical earth model and pre-existing natural fractures along
completion design that uses reservoir with microseismic data
characterization
Mangrove is a one of a kind software on the market, using an integrated, reservoir centric workflow
■■ Fit-for-purpose hydraulic fracture simula-
to enable seismic-to-simulation, journey-to-design, optimal completion and stimulation scenario for
tors that properly models non-planar
superior production performance in unconventional reservoirs. Developed on the Petrel platform,
complex fractures
Mangrove leverages the seismic, geological, geomechanical, microseismic, and reservoir simula-
■■ Conventional hydraulic fracture simulator tion capabilities offered by native Petrel and Petrel plugins. It offers separate, optimal completion
that enables side-by-side comparison of design tools for tight sand and shale. Mangrove brings two brand new unconventional fracture
multiple scenarios simulators along with the conventional planar fracture.
■■ Comprehensive zoning tool that accounts
for the rock heterogeneity, vertically and
Zoning
The zoning process provides a wide range of options to accurately capture reservoir characteriza-
horizontally, through 3D geological models
tion and structural input. This leads to enhanced completion design, and subsequent hydraulic
■■ Extensive fracturing fluid and proppant fracture predicting capabilities. This process provides flexibility to capitalize on the existing data
database that predicts realistic hydraulic through four primary options. One option uses a 3D model, with detailed rock heterogeneity descrip-
fracture properties tion along with surface tagging, to create zones. The second option uses well logs for target well to
■■ Integrated, real-time monitoring, including determine zones. The third option allows offset wells, or pilot holes, to define zones. The last option
microseismic and comprehensive post lets users manually enter zones.
treatment evaluation
Completion Advisor
Features This engineered process uses reservoir characterization as the basis to provide best possible
■■ Reservoir specific workflows completion design. This semi-automated process primarily offers two reservoir and well type specific
■■ Well and completion specific workflows workflows: one for the vertical wells in tight sands, and the other for the horizontal wells in shale. The
field validated workflow for tight sands vertical wells uses pay zones and stress barriers to create the
■■ Zoning and reservoir characterization
right combination for the specific completion needs. While the newly designed shale horizontal well
■■ Multistage completion advisor workflow uses reservoir quality and completion quality to design staging, and subsequently to pinpoint
■■ Conventional hydraulic fracture simulator perforation clusters. Completion advisor also provides limited entry option applicable when intervals
■■ Unconventional hydraulic fracture simulator with varying in-situ stress are stimulated together to ensure effective stimulation. This process allows
similar flexibility as in zoning process to maximize the usage of available data.
■■ Side-by-side scenario comparison
■■ State-of-the-art visualization Hydraulic Fracture Simulation
■■ Post treatment pressure match Mangrove introduces two new numerical models, unconventional fracture model (UFM) and
wiremesh, specifically developed for simulating non-planar complex hydraulic fractures in shale
■■ Engineering report
reservoirs. At the same time, it offers all the conventional models including the multi-layer fracture
■■ Regional and user level preference settings model for tight sands. Additionally, microseismic data is used to calibrate the hydraulic fracture
simulation results.
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Selectively placed perforation clusters

Rock quality

Stress Rock Quality

■ Good CQ and Good RQ
Stress Low High
■ Good CQ and Bad RQ
■ Bad CQ and Good RQ
■ Bad CQ and Bad RQ

Showing a customized completion design with selectively placed perforation clusters using reservoir quality (RQ) and completion quality (CQ).

UFM
The first of its kind UFM is the most rigorous hydraulic fracture simula-
tion model on the market. This model is primarily developed for naturally
fractured reservoirs to numerically simulate complex fracture networks
using discrete fracture networks (DFN) and 3D mechanical earth mod-
els (MEM). This model takes into account the influence of pre-existing
natural fractures to predict the complex hydraulic fracture geometry
without presumption of its pattern. In addition to the hydraulic fracture-
natural fracture interactions, the UFM also takes into account the
interaction among adjacent hydraulic fracture branches by computing
the “stress shadow” effect on each fracture element by the adjacent
fracture. Showing simulated hydraulic fractures using MLF module in a vertical tight sand
well along with completion design
Wiremesh
Fluid & Proppant Database
The wiremesh model is the mathematical representation of the hy-
Mangrove offers both extensive fluids and proppants databases. These
draulic fracture network. It provides a quick estimate of the fracture
are shared with FracCADE* and are updated with all commercial fluids
network dimensions and proppant placement in the network. This model
and additives. The fluids database contains extensive data on rheologi-
requires less input data and runs faster as it is simple in nature in com-
cal, leakoff, and friction performance. The proppants are described with
parison to UFM. This model is also easier to calibrate with microseismic
a wide array of permeability vs. closure stress data. Mangrove also
interpretations such as stimulated surface area.
provides fluid and proppant customization as per specific needs which
Conventional can be saved for future use.
The conventional hydraulic fracture simulator provides a host of fracture
Pressure Match
geometry models. It provides the capability to model fracture growth into
Mangrove supports pressure match workflow. It presents a technique
layers above and below the pay zone along with bi-wing fracture exten-
for consistent analysis of pressure records during both injection and
sion. The MultiFRAC* placement (MLF) module simulates simultaneous
decline, including changes due to rate and fluid viscosity variations. It
initiation and extension of multiple hydraulic fractures.
is also used to match simulated and measured fracturing procedures
within specified limits. This process uses the prescribed treatment
parameters (slurry injection rates, proppant concentration, etc.) to simu-
late fracturing pressures for a given set of fracture parameters (in-situ
stress, fluid leakoff, etc.).

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