Summary Small drilling-fluid losses provide an accurate means of detecting conductive natural fractures and pinpointing potentially productive zones. We outline improved interpretation techniques that allow losses as small as 0.5 bbl to be used reliably as fracture permeability indicators. We compare results from four case histories with conventional fracture-detection methods.
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