A Case Study for the First Successful Refracturing on Horizontal Well in Tight Volcanic Gas Reservoir in China

This paper introduces the first successful refracturing example of horizontal well in a tight volcanic gas reservoir of Xushen gas field. The well was fractured and put into production in 2008, with the accumulated gas production of 0.64×108 m3. Due to the limited technical conditions of the horizontal well-stage fracturing process at that time, only four fracturing stages have been carried out. the horizontal section of the volcanic gas reservoirs with more than 600 meters of the well was not fractured, leaving a large potential for increasing production. In 2017, based on the fine research of gas reservoirs, the refracturing optimization design, multi-stage perforation, fracturing and commissioning integrated tubular completion and the diagnosis control of complex fractures in fracturing construction, the refracturing job of the well is implemented successfully with a good result.