Fracture Impact Screening Tool

Well Performance Yes No Unsure

1.Do well test or whole core permeabilities
exceed typical porosity-permeability
relationship by an order of magnitude?
2.Do some wells in the field experience
water influx
3.Are well much
rates earlier than
extremely others?
variable across
the field?
4.Do injected fluids show up earlier or in
different wells than expected?
5.Are flow rates after casing and perforating
substantially lower than open hole tests?
unexpected high mud losses or unintended
variable
7.Do yourdrilling rates?
wells experience rapid decline in
rates?

Geological
1.Do you observe significant number of
natural fractures (>1/ft) in core or on well-
processed imaging logs?
2.Do outcrops of the relevant formation(s) on
structures of similar origin contain abundant
natural fractures?
greater that those observed from core
analysis?
models using mechanical properties of the
formation of interest and relevant structural
geometry and deformation paths predict
significant brittle strain in the trap?
5.Do calibrated restoration strains from
kinematic forward modeling predict
significant brittle strain in the trap?

Geophysics
1.Do various forms of seismic attributes
based on amplitude anomolies display
azmuthal response within the trap?
show a strong azmuthal anisotropy within
the trap?
structural curvature in the structure or map
parallel to regional fracture trends in the
area?
4.Do interval velocities for the potential
fractured reservoir vary significantly
throughout the trap or structure?

Drilling
1.Do restricted zones in the formation exhibit
penetration rates higher than expected and
does this occurs in more than 1 well?
2.When drilling certain hard formations,
does the drill string exhibit an unusual
amount or character of vibration?
3.Do we experience sporadic and rapid mud
losses within the formation and do they
correlate across the field/trap?
4.Do zones of mud loss become periodic
within the formation?
kicks, especially in tight portions of the
formation?
6.Do production logs (spinner, temperature,
acoustic) display restricted zones of high
fluid entry in a step function manner?

Reservoir Engineering
maximum rate and cumulative production
within the field?
2.Do pressure transient tests display a dual
porosity behavior?
3.Does history matching require greater than
anticipated flow rates or drainage areas?
flow barriers or point sources away from the
wellbore, and can these be mapped using
multiple wells?
5.Do multiple well tests or flood pilots
indicate strong preferential flow directions or
high permeability azimuths?