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SHADOWFRACPLUG
DELIVERING
MOREEFFICIENTWELLS
In unconventional oil and gas plays,
plug-and-perf completions are
widely used. Frac plugs are selec-
tively placed along the lateral
to precisely control where fractures
are initiated – but these plugs
have to be removed, typically by
coiled tubing milling, before the
well can start producing. In the U.S.
shale plays in 2013, for example,
30,000 drilling days – or 30,000 days
of deferred production – were spent
milling plugs. Baker Hughes set out
to solve this challenge by eliminating
milling altogether.
The result was a pairing of the
Baker Hughes IN-Tallic™ frac balls
with a new plug concept – the
SHADOW™ frac plug. The nano-
constructed frac balls let us create
a large-bore plug that customers
can “set and forget.” Post-fracture,
the IN-Tallic™ balls disintegrate so
production can flow directly through
the plugs. No milling is required.
The pressure barrier is there when
it is needed, and gone when it is not.
The SHADOW™ frac plug changed
the game by opening up a new world
of possibilities – our customers
can now place as many frac stages
as the reservoir requires for
optimum production. It also allows
us to leverage our AutoTrak™
Curve systems to drill longer, more
economical wells – including laterals
that would have been inaccessible
to coiled tubing due to their length.
Our new technology introductions help customers
solve their most pressing problems of well conversion
efficiency, optimizing production profiles, and
improving ultimate recovery. In 2014, three specific
innovations designed to meet each of these challenges
raised the bar in technology.
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