2024-01-02 18:12:29
It was already big news, but the data on the number of fracturing stages carried out to put the new Vaca Muerta wells into production indicated that In December, 1,150 punctures were performed, which ended up placing 2023 as the best year in the training’s little more than a decade of activity. by adding nothing less than 14,747 steps taken throughout the year.
The information corresponds to the special report prepared by the country manager of the NCS Multistage company, Luciano Fucello, for the Contactos Energético Foundation. And he realizes that In December the pace of activity dropped considerably in relation to the previous month.
In detail, in the last month of 2023 the Vaca Muerta companies added a total of 1150 stages of fractures in the wells, including in that count the 25 stages that were carried out in the first two wells of the formation in Mendoza.
However, this value is 11.6% less than that registered in November, when the 1,302 completed stages had been reached.
This lower activity not only responds to the classic effect that holidays have in Decemberbut also to a lower activity evidenced by YPFwho already at the end of November had said goodbye to one of the fracture sets, starting to work with only two.
Specific, In December there were 7 companies who worked in their wells, and although YPF He took his foot off the accelerator and continued to lead the segment with 396 stages completed.
He followed TotalEnergies, the French firm focused on gas that resumed fracturing wells following several months, and added 171 punctures. Third place went to December Tecpetrolwhich doubled fracture sets and reached 165 stages.
Pan American Energy (PAE) was positioned in fourth place with 162 stages completed, and quite far from the fifth position that was tied between Shell and Pampa Energía, with 92 punctures performed each.
The list is finally completed with Capex which carried out a campaign of 72 fracture stages in December and which shows that The natural gas segment was the most active at the end of the year.
With the December records, 2023 closed with a total of 14,747 fracture stages carried out, thus exceeding the previous record that dated from 2022 by 17.7%.and marking that 2023 was the year with the greatest activity in Vaca Muerta, since there is a direct relationship between the stages of fracture carried out and the production that will be obtained in the following months.
Dead Cow in Mendoza
The report gives an account of the Fracture work of the first two wells destined for Vaca Muerta that are carried out outside of Neuquén and more specifically in Mendoza.
This is regarding the work he did YPF with the support of the services firm Weatherford which amounted to a total of 25 fracture stages during the past month.
These wells have a depth of regarding 2,500 meters and somewhat short lateral branches, in relation to their Neuquén neighbors, since in each case they are 1.000 metros.
YPF’s objective is not only to study the performance of the shale formation in that province, but to obtain a good production of much denser oil than the one obtained in the Añelo area.
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