...Chapter 2 Fracturing Fluid Components Carl Montgomery Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56422 Abstract The materials and chemistry used to manufacture hydraulic fracture fluids are often confus ing and difficult for the practicing hydraulic...

... ABSTRACT In order to understand the thermal recovery Behavior of an engineered geothermal system (EGS), this paper develops a model in which fluid circulates in a single, planar hydraulic fracture with a constant hydraulic aperture via multiple recharging and discharging wells. The coupled...

...Chapter 3 Fractures and Fracturing: Hydraulic Fracturing in Jointed Rock Charles Fairhurst Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56366 Abstract Rock in situ is arguably the most complex material encountered in any engineering disci pline. Deformed...

...Chapter 28 Fracture Network Connectivity A Key To Hydraulic Fracturing Effectiveness and Microseismicity Generation F. Zhang, N. Nagel, B. Lee and M. Sanchez-Nagel Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56302 Abstract In this work, the effect...

...Chapter 49 Scale Model Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing for EGS Reservoir Creation Using a Heated True-Triaxial Apparatus Luke Frash, Marte Gutierrez and Jesse Hampton Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56113 Abstract Geothermal energy technology...

...Chapter 27 A New Approach to Hydraulic Stimulation of Geothermal Reservoirs by Roughness Induced Fracture Opening Nima Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Sheik S. Rahman and Andrei Kotousov Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56447 Abstract Hydraulic fracturing...

... ABSTRACT A new finite element has been implemented in ABAQUS to incorporate the extended finite element method (XFEM) for the solution of hydraulic fracture problems. The proposed element includes the desired aspects of the XFEM so as to model crack propagation without explicit remeshing...

...Chapter 18 Differentiating Applications of Hydraulic Fracturing Joel Adams and Clem Rowe Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56114 Abstract Hydraulic fracturing has received abundant media attention in recent years due to a rapid increase in the use...

...Chapter 22 Blue Shift in the Spectrum of Arrival Times of Acoustic Signals Emitted during Laboratory Hydraulic Fracturing Arcady V. Dyskin, Elena Pasternak, Andrew P. Bunger and James Kear Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56448 Abstract We discuss...

...Chapter 8 Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Across a Weak Discontinuity Controlled by Fluid Injection Dimitry Chuprakov, Olga Melchaeva and Romain Prioul Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/55941 Abstract We investigated the problem of a hydraulic...

...Chapter 21 Microseismic Monitoring Developments in Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation Mirko van der Baan, David Eaton and Maurice Dusseault Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56444 Abstract The last decade has seen a significantly increased interest...

... and hydraulic fracturing experience, refined to some extent with recent shale gas and shale oil stimulation campaigns, can be adapted for geothermal applications, it may be possible to improve the chances for successful EGS. One central issue for vertical, inclined, extended reach or horizontally drilled wells...

... since the beginning of Hydraulic fracturing. This paper describes the history of fracturing fluids, the types of fracturing fluids used, the engineering requirement of a good fracturing fluid, how viscosity is measured and what the limitations of the engineering design parameters are. drilling...

... 1 Introduction Hydraulic fracturing is commonplace in the geo-industry, whether designed or unintended; e.g., stimulation of hydrocarbons reservoirs [1, 2], disposal of waste water [3], waterflooding operations [4], enhanced oil recovery by injection of CO2 [5], and preconditioning of rock...

... the basement had been regarded as a competent rock mass and the leading exploitation scheme was to connect two inclined boreholes by a number of parallel fractures created by hydraulic fracturing in short insulated borehole sections. Realizing that the basement contains open natural fractures even at great...

...Chapter 41 Three-Dimensional Numerical Model of Hydraulic Fracturing in Fractured Rock Masses B. Damjanac, C. Detournay, P.A. Cundall and Varun Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56313 Abstract Conventional methods for simulation of hydraulic...

... of the pressure decline curves may reveal the relationship between the fracture responses and formation characteristics. Drillstem Testing Efficiency pressure response hydraulic fracture Upstream Oil & Gas fracture closing function superposition derivative straight line leakoff wellhead...

... of sophistication and reliability to function as a service technology in the early 21st century [12,13], and many thousands of hydraulic fractures have been monitored since that time. In addition to providing a "window" into the subsurface for fracture optimization and control, the large amount of microseismic data...

... borehole actual measurement horizontal principal stress stress Gradient hydraulic fracturing pre-mining stage mining stress tensor stress measurement principal stress PRE Post Mining Stage maximum horizontal hydrofracture method Chapter 46 Estimation of the Impact of Mining on Stresses...

... ABSTRACT Outcrop studies have revealed the presence of abundant cemented fractures in many low permeable formations. Recovered cores have also revealed the opening of some of these smaller size fractures on the wall surface of main hydraulic fractures. Furthermore, early-production well...