West Texas & Southeast New Mexico / Permian Basin
Real-Time Completions Intelligence for the Permian Basin
Stacked Targets. Infill Interaction. Depletion Response.
Dense well development and stacked landing targets make Permian Basin completions increasingly interdependent. Real-time completions intelligence shows how the reservoir responds across wells and target intervals while stimulation is underway, giving completions teams additional evidence for the next stage, infill well, or pad.
- Measure fracture height, lateral extent, azimuth, and event distribution across stacked Permian Basin landing targets.
- Evaluate whether the observed response remains within the intended Wolfcamp, Bone Spring, Spraberry, or other target interval or extends toward adjacent producing zones.
- Track stimulation relative to producing parent wells, new infill wells, adjacent laterals, and vertically offset targets.
- Integrate microseismic observations with treatment and offset-well pressure data to investigate fracture-driven interactions, interwell communication, and offset-well exposure.
- Evaluate how pressure depletion and changes in the local stress field influence fracture direction, asymmetry, containment, and stage-to-stage behavior.
- Apply the results to decisions involving well spacing, landing-target selection, treatment order, stage sequencing, and future pad development.
Permian Basin Completion Case Studies
Field results from Permian Basin developments.
Operator Improves Well Spacing to Increase Production
A Spraberry and Wolfcamp development evaluating vertical fracture coverage and well spacing.
Estimating Production, Drainage Volume and Interference From Multiple Stacked Wells
A Midland Basin example examining stacked wells, drainage and interference.
Wellbore Density Scenarios: Showing Improved Drainage and Increased NPV
Comparing development scenarios in the San Andres on the Central Basin Platform.
Our stats
Permian Basin Experience at Scale
194+
Projects
461+
Wells Monitored
14,683+
Stages Monitored
MicroSeismic brings extensive completions-monitoring experience to the Permian Basin. Across 194 projects, our teams have monitored 461 wells and 14,683 hydraulic-fracturing stages, building substantial field experience interpreting fracture geometry, well-to-well interaction, fracture containment, and depletion-related stress response across densely developed, multiwell acreage.
This experience helps us design monitoring programs around the operator’s completion decisions including infill drilling, parent–child well interactions, stacked landing targets, well spacing, treatment order, stage sequencing, and offset-well exposure.
We convert measured reservoir response into practical completions intelligence for the next stage, well, or pad.
Permian Basin Completions Intelligence
Understand the Response Between Wells and Targets
In developments with stacked landing targets and neighboring wells, the key question extends beyond a single lateral. Design the monitoring program to investigate vertical growth, lateral reach and changes associated with the development sequence.
Evaluate the measured response alongside treatment, pressure, geology and production data to inform the next engineering decision.
01
Vertical Development
How does the observed response extend relative to the planned target intervals?
02
Well-to-Well Interaction
Where does the response develop relative to parent wells and adjacent completions?
03
Sequencing and Spacing
What can differences between stages and wells tell the team about the next pad?
Four Questions for Completion Decisions
For Permian Basin projects, connect these four questions to the decisions your completions team needs to make. Interpret each diagnostic in the context of the treatment and local geology.
01
Uniformity Index
How uniformly is stimulation distributed across the treated interval?
Use Uniformity Index analysis alongside treatment and pressure data to compare stimulation distribution, while accounting for the different landing targets in a Permian development.
Completion decision: Evaluate cluster spacing, perforation strategy and treatment distribution for each target.
02
Fracture-Driven Interactions
Is the treatment interacting with parent wells or adjacent targets?
Assess observed fracture development relative to parent wells, neighboring laterals and stacked targets, and integrate offset pressure observations to investigate communication.
Completion decision: Review well spacing, development sequence and operator-defined offset-well response protocols.
03
Frac Completions
Is fracture growth consistent with the plan for each landing target?
Compare vertical and lateral response across stages and wells to investigate containment and the influence of completion sequence.
Completion decision: Evaluate stage design, treatment volumes and sequencing across the multiwell development.
04
Screenouts
Do treatment trends and changing fracture response warrant intervention?
Integrate treating-pressure and pumping data with subsurface observations to investigate treatment changes and potential screenout risk within each target.
Completion decision: Reassess rate and proppant schedules under the operator’s engineering protocols. Microseismic observations alone do not establish or predict a screenout.
A Monitoring Plan Designed Around Your Decision
Every development has different geometry, objectives and constraints. MicroSeismic designs the monitoring program around the decision your team needs to make, not around a one-size-fits-all acquisition method.
01
Define
Start with the spacing, sequencing or containment question your team needs to resolve.
02
Measure
Evaluate surface or buried-array options around the project geometry and objectives.
03
Interpret
Connect the observed response with operational context and carry the learning forward to the next stage, well or pad.
More Permian Basin Resources
Technical papers, articles and video related to completion design and reservoir response in the Permian Basin.
Technical Papers
Tank Development in the Midland Basin, Texas: A Case Study of Super-Charging a Reservoir to Optimize Production and Increase Horizontal Well Densities
URTeC
A Midland Basin study of tank-style development and horizontal well density.
Read MoreDetermining Maximum Horizontal Stress With Microseismic Focal Mechanisms: Case Studies in the Marcellus, Eagle Ford, Wolfcamp
URTeC
Cross-play stress interpretation, including a Wolfcamp example.
Read MoreFull Wave Imaging of Downhole Microseismic Using All the Data
White Paper
Downhole imaging methodology from MicroSeismic’s Permian case-study collection.
Read MoreArticles
Micro Insights Into Permian Basin Wellbore Spacing
E&P Magazine
How microseismic information can inform Permian well-spacing decisions.
Read MoreMicroseismic Monitoring Helps Producers Aim for Sweetest of Sweet Spots
Midland Reporter-Telegram
Reporting on microseismic monitoring and reservoir development.
Read MoreRequest a Permian Basin Technical Consultation
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