Patent ID: 8855988

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, by a computer system, a set of viable hydraulic fracture scenarios for a plurality of fracture zones planned for a single borehole in an underground formation, the determining by: providing log data and parameters regarding hydraulic fracturing, the providing to a fracture planning program; providing the log data to a fracture simulation program; providing information regarding a tubing string to a stress analysis program; providing information regarding the underground formation to an inflow performance relationship (IPR) analysis program; providing data regarding the underground formation to a reservoir modeling program; providing data regarding expected future prices per unit to a financial analysis program; starting a management software by a user, the management software executes the fracture planning program, the fracture simulation program, the stress analysis program, the IPR analysis program, the reservoir modeling program; and the management software: determines viable hydraulic fracture scenarios from a plurality of hydraulic fracture scenarios, and makes available the set of viable hydraulic fracture scenarios, and produces: a set of expected initial hydrocarbon production flows, each expected initial hydrocarbon production flow corresponding to a respective hydraulic fracture scenario in the set of viable hydraulic fracture scenarios; a set of expected hydrocarbon production flows over time, each expected hydrocarbon production flow over time corresponding to a respective initial hydrocarbon flow in the set of expected initial hydrocarbon flows; and produces a set of indications of financial viability, each indication of financial viability corresponding to a respective expected hydrocarbon production flow in the set of expected hydrocarbon production flows over time.