... be reduced by 25% with in-plane perforations or cyclic pressure ramping. The results further indicate that open hole and conventional plug-and-perf completions lead to more near wellbore fracture tortuosities, while transverse fractures can be initiated from the in-plane perforation geometry. Introduction...

... and growth of fractures from a variety of perforation geometries and injection rates, and also containment at stress or stiffness contrasts. The work was motivated following an unpublished literature review of available information on fracture initiation. In particular, while there is available experimental...