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随着分流器技术在井眼增产中变得越来越重要，DiverterPlus 和 Seismos 联手推进近场技术。在最近的 SPE 现场技术讲座“近场驱动生产”中，两家公司的代表分享了他们的合作伙伴关系和技术如何帮助促进近场刺激。

Seismos 高级运营经理 Steven Bourgoyne 表示，他的团队注意到许多近场增产程度较高的油井正在使用 DiverterPlus 提供的分流器服务，因此他们抓住了合作机会。

Seismos 是一家位于德克萨斯州奥斯汀的情报和数据分析公司，将其技术与 DiverterPlus（一家为井下作业提供技术的公司）的技术结合起来。布尔戈因表示，这次合作是“天作之合”。

“从某种程度上来说，这是与 DiverterPlus 的自然联系，因此我们希望以此为基础，”他继续说道。“我觉得测量近场很重要，并期望当您要使用像分流器这样的东西时，[您]最终会明白，“我的分流器是否工作？我应该稍微调整一下音量吗？我能用更少的钱做更多的事吗？”这些都是我们希望回答的问题。

“我们的一个客户正在使用分流器，想要测量该分流器是否有效，或者我是否需要稍微调整一下音量，这是非常有意义的，”布尔戈因说。“我们已经看到客户能够在向下过渡时逐渐改变分流器的音量。我们确实看到了它对近场的影响，对我们来说，这在世界上都是有意义的。”

DiverterPlus 技术和应用副总裁 Nick Koster 补充道：“我们真正感到兴奋的是，[此次合作]将 Diverter 从这种盲目的被动过程转变为智能过程，我们可以在其中确定其需求，做出回应，然后看看该回应的效果。”

下一步

尽管这些公司的分流器技术具有先进的井眼理解（包括压力监测），但仍然需要更多技术。

“压力监控给我们带来了很长的路要走，但归根结底，我认为我们已经达到了这样一个阶段：我们确实需要其他技术，或者我们确实需要更大的数据集来真正理解这种相互作用[模式之间的相互作用”。数据]以及有多少是好的，有多少是坏的，”布尔戈因说。

他补充说，分流器通过提供“控制近场增产的手段”和“提供更好的近场增产的机会”来帮助恢复或增强井眼的近场增产。

“如果我能将近场刺激与生产联系起来，那么下一个问题当然是，‘我如何控制它？’我们希望流体在我们所有的集群上有更多的分布，”布尔戈因说。“在完美的情况下，他们都会摄入相同量的液体，但这确实是一项很难完成的任务，特别是当你需要考虑所有其他因素时。”

科斯特说，随着团队在现场收集数据，他们更多地了解了分流器在井下勘探中的用途，更接近于闭合“实验室与现实世界之间的循环”。

“无论何时进行测试和设计（与压力刺激软件相同），都很难获得所有必要的数据，”他说。“或者，就我们而言，当我们进行产品开发时，很难获得所有必要的数据。”很难充分模拟现实世界的条件。”

科斯特表示，重要的是不仅要了解产品的行为方式，还要了解其效果。 

“模拟速度非常困难，更不用说油藏响应了，”他补充道。“任何时候你想要进行井下测量来测试现实世界的条件，现在我们可以开始了解我们所做的改变是如何影响的不仅仅是我们，还有您的总体刺激设计。这是一项非常令人兴奋的技术。”

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As diverter technology becomes more relevant in wellbore stimulation, DiverterPlus and Seismos have teamed up to advance technologies in the near-field. In the recent SPE Live Tech Talk “The Near-field Drives Production,” representatives from the two companies shared how their partnership and technology help promote near-field stimulation.

Steven Bourgoyne, senior operations manager with Seismos, said his team noticed that a lot of wells that had high near-field stimulation were using diverter services provided by DiverterPlus, so they leapt at the opportunity to collaborate.

Seismos, an intelligence and data analytics company based in Austin, Texas, paired its technology with that of DiverterPlus, a company that provides technology for downhole operations. The partnership was a “natural fit,” according to Bourgoyne.

“In a way, it was a natural connection with DiverterPlus, and so it's something we're looking to build upon,” he continued. “We feel that measuring the near-field is important and expect when you're going to use something like a diverter [you] get an understanding at the end of the day of, ‘Is my diverter working? Should I adjust the volume a little bit? Can I do more with less?’ These are the type of questions that we hope to answer.

“If a client of ours is using diverter, it makes all the sense in the world to want to measure if that diverter is effective or if maybe I need to tweak the volume to us a little bit,” Bourgoyne said. “We have seen clients who are able to progressively change their diverter volume as they transition down the lateral. We do see an impact it has on the near-field, and for us, it makes all the sense in a world.”

Nick Koster, vice president of technology and applications with DiverterPlus, added, “What we're really excited about is [the partnership is] taking diverter from this kind of blind passive process into an intelligent process where we can determine the need for it, respond and then see the efficacy of that response."

Next steps

Although the companies' diverter technologies have advanced wellbore understanding, including pressure monitoring, the need for more technology still exists.

“Pressure monitoring has brought us a long way, but at the end of the day, I think we're reaching a point to where we do need other technologies or we do need bigger datasets to truly understand this interaction [between patterns in the data] and how much is good and how much is bad,” Bourgoyne said.

A diverter helps restore or enhance wellbores in near-field stimulation by providing “a means of controlling that near-field stimulation” and “an opportunity to make near-field stimulation better," he added.

“If I can relate something from, let's say near-field stimulation to production, of course, the next question is, ‘How do I control it?’ We want more distribution of fluid along all of our clusters," Bourgoyne said. "In a perfect scenario, they would all take the same amount of fluid, but it's just a really difficult task to accomplish, especially when you have all these other factors to consider."

As the team gathers data in the field, they learn more about the uses of diverters in downhole exploration, coming closer to closing “the loop between like the lab and the real world,” Koster said.

“Anytime you're doing testing and design (same thing with press stimulation software), it's very difficult to have all the necessary data," he said. "Or, in our case, when we're doing product development, it's very difficult to stimulate real-world conditions fully."

Koster said it's important to understand more than just how products behave but the effects as well. 

“It's very difficult to simulate velocity, let alone the reservoir response," he added. "Anytime you want to produce a downhole measurement that is testing the real-world conditions, now we can begin to understand how the changes we make are affecting things and not just us, but your stimulation design in general. It's a really exciting technology.”