FracPoint MP Sleeve with DirectConnect Ports
Improve frac efficiency with multiple fracture initiation points per stage and minimized near wellbore tortuosityThe Baker Hughes FracPoint™ MP sleeve with DirectConnect™ ports is a combination of two revolutionary technologies that improves the placement and effectiveness of the frac treatment, ultimately providing more connectivity to the reservoir. This technology, combined with the FracPoint multistage fracturing system, provides a method of completing formations that require hydraulic fracturing to produce efficiently. The overall technique of using openhole packers to isolate multiple stages and ball activated frac sleeves to divert the frac treatment is the same, but this technology allows for more initiation points per stage and better connectivity to the reservoir.
The FracPoint MP sleeves contain patented ball seats that allow one size frac ball to open multiple sleeves per stage. This is accomplished by using a ball seat that allows the frac ball to seat, open the sleeve, and then pass through to another ball seat that has the same diameter. Also, there is a solid ball seat at the bottom of each stage that does not allow the ball to pass through. When the frac ball has opened all the sleeves with the subsiding ball seats, it lands on the solid seat, which isolates the current stage from the ones below. When pressure is applied, the sleeve is opened and the fracturing can begin.
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