... ABSTRACT Multi-well fracturing techniques are beneficial to enhance stimulated reservoir volume and completion efficiency in unconventional oil and gas development. However, severe inter-well stress interference aggravates the uncertainty of fracture propagation and proppant transport, which...

... phenomenon coupling several physics such as fracture nucleation and growth, fluid flow inside fracture, fluid leak-off, and proppant settling and jamming. An integrated numerical model will be required to understand the physics of proppant transport in hydraulic fractures and guide field operations...

... understanding of proppant transport mechanisms in hydraulic fracturing, thanks to numerical simulation. This has led to the optimization of proppant types, fracturing fluid compositions, and injection strategies. upstream oil & gas asia government geologist fracture hydraulic fracturing united...

... ABSTRACT The impacts of the fluid type and stress shadow on proppant transport during hydraulic fracturing in a Marcellus shale horizontal well with multiple hydraulic fracture stages were investigated. The available data from a Marcellus Shale horizontal well were utilized to determine...

... mesh size), where the mesh size of 40 was obtained using 40-45 mesh sizes, while 70 was taken using 70-80 mesh sizes. The final part of the study focuses on investigating the proppant transport through a dynamic model, where the measurements of proppant transport were conducted using different fracture...

... transport at secondary fractures closer to the injection point, while gravity plays an important role in proppant transport at secondary fractures further away (Wen et al., 2016). Alotaibi and Miskimins (2015) studied the effect of particle surface roughness and found that angular sands transport better...

... ABSTRACT: Hydraulically fractured well productivity greatly depends on fracture conductivity, which itself is dictated by proppant transport and placement. To guide engineering design and evaluate performance of proppant placement, a full understanding of the underlying physics and robust...

... fractures from the main fracture. Through complex fracture proppant transport equipment, the settlement and distribution of proppant at the intersection of longer fractures and multiple fractures are studied, and mathematical methods are used to normalize the settlement height and the shape of the sand bank...

... ABSTRACT: A numerical model is developed to describe proppant transport within a propagating blade-shaped fracture towards defining the fracture conductivity and reservoir production following fracture arrest, deflation then production. Fracture propagation is formulated based on the PKN...

... transport HVFR transient velocity fracture orientation orientation experiment linear gel society of petroleum engineers 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, understanding settling velocity and proppant transport in complex fracture system plays an essential role in determining propped fracture area, fracture...

... proppant transport fracture orientation fracture 1. INTRODUCTION The free settling velocity of solid particles in different fluid media is generally encountered in a wide variety of industrial processes. Understanding particles behavior and particles settling plays a vital role in optimizing design...

... the transport law of proppant in large thick glutenite reservoir, and propose a method to improve the effective placement of proppant in vertical direction. Novotny (1977) conducted a proppant transport experiment in non-Newtonian fracturing fluids, and recognized that the proppant moves at different speeds...

... ABSTRACT: We have developed a new frac-pack model to simulate power-law fluid flow coupled with proppant transport inside the fracture. Two empirical correlations of the relative velocity between the fluid and proppant for the vertical direction (settling) and the horizontal direction...

... proppant. From the preliminary tests, PLA fibers crumbled and tended to induce proppant screen-out often; thus, only PGA materials were used for the proppant transport experiments. Since the PGA materials were cost prohibitive, we determined the optimum concentration of PGA fibers by changing the polymer...

... accommodates the leakoff into a dual porosity medium. Proppant transport is accommodated by introducing empirical constitutive equations to determine the proppant distribution during the hydraulic fracturing treatment assuming that only the major hydraulic fractures remain propped. The model is solved...

... proppant transport dispersion capsule flow cell fracturing materials orientation concentration interaction displacement hydraulic fracturing particle closure relationship fracture upstream oil & gas rock mechanics association numerical simulation fracturing fluid experiment...

... fracturing flow rate upstream oil & gas proppant placement proppant experiment fracturing materials fracture fracturing fluid inlet narrow vertical wedge-shaped fracture fernández la plata dune wellbore proppant transport placement particle 1. INTRODUCTION In recent years, many oil...

... proppant size plug proppant transport Abstract Proppant additives play an essential role in hydraulic fracturing as they provide support, which retains the fracture opening after the pumping is shut off. From a production point of view, a larger proppant size provides better permeability, while...

... of proppant placement, causing abruption of fluid flow and proppant transport. The results of the study give a new understanding of pressure, fluid viscosity, proppant concentration and size, and fracture width on the difference between horizontal proppant and fluid velocities in the fracture and clogging...

... closure proppant flowback fracture system proppant transport wellbore open channel ABSTRACT: Hydraulic fracturing of certain low permeability, gas shales is performed by injecting tens of thousands of barrels of water and several hundred thousand pounds of proppant at pressures in excess...