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041			_aInglés
100	1		_aPournik, M. _953015
100	1		_aSmith, B. _953016
100	1		_aLi, L. _919232
100	1		_aNasr-El-Din, H.A. _912183
245	0	0	_aEffect of Acid Spending on Etching and Acid-Fracture Conductivity
260			_cfeb. 2013
270			_a28/05/2013 ; 17/04/2013
300			_a8 p. ; 46-54
520			_aTranscripción del resumen del autor: In acid fracturing, while the near-wellbore area of the fracture receives live, unspent acid, sections of the fracture farther down the length receive partially spent acid because of the acid's reaction with the rock. As a result, there is a distribution of acid concentration along the fracture length. However, almost all experimental studies on acid-fracture conductivity have been conducted with live acid, which is representative of what occurs near the wellbore. An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of spent acids on the resulting fracture conductivity in a laboratory facility designed to perform acid-fracture-conductivity characterization. Gelled HCl acid systems with different degrees of acid spending were used to etch fractured cores under identical treatment conditions, which were set to mimic field conditions. Detailed etched surface characterization, fluid analysis, and conductivity measurements were performed on acid-etched fracture faces. Experimental results show that the amount of rock dissolved and the actual etching pattern depend highly on acid concentration. While there was less fracture-face etching with more spent acid systems, the etching pattern also changed with acid spending, which sometimes offset the additional etched volume of unspent acid. As a result, the retained conductivity was generally higher for more spent acid, and the decline in conductivity with closure stress was more subtle with the spent acid, probably because of less weakening of the fracture face. While there have been many developments in enhancing the etched length of acid-fractured wells, a major reason for the lack of long etched fractures is acid spending along the fracture. In order to understand the etched fracture profile, there is a need to realize how the degree of acid spending limits etching and affects the resulting fracture conductivity. On the basis of the newly discovered effect of acid spending on conductivity, acid-etched length and conductivity can be predicted more accurately and acid-fracture treatments better designed.
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773	0		_tSPE Journal _g18
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