PhaseTrace Inflow Tracer Confirmed Water Inflow in Production/Frac Sleeves

The Problem

Knowing when and in which zones you have water breakthrough is valuable information for the correlation of reservoir models and production forecasting.

An operator in Alberta, Canada, planned to complete a well with frac sleeves for hydraulic fracturing of the oil-bearing formation. To monitor the time and zone of the expected water breakthrough into the well, Completion Tracer’s partner, Core Laboratories, suggested to the operator that they should test if solid polymer rods containing the PhaseTrace water-soluble inflow tracers could be installed in the frac sleeves.

The Solution

The PhaseTrace inflow tracer rods can be tailor made in different sizes and geometries to fit the dimensions of almost any downhole hardware equipment being used as the tracer carrier.

The expansive Completion Tracer portfolio of PhaseTrace and FlowTrace oil and water-soluble tracers allows for a unique signature to be applied in each zone across all wells in a field.

Custom-made sizes of PhaseTrace water-soluble inflow tracer rods from Completion Tracer were installed in the frac sleeves to identify when and from which zones the water breakthrough would appear.

The Result

The wells were successfully completed with the PhaseTrace water-soluble inflow tracers installed in the frac sleeves.

PhaseTrace water inflow tracers helped the team to gather important insights about the well, potentially pointing towards areas that require further attention.