...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...

...Chapter 36 An ABAQUS Implementation of the XFEM for Hydraulic Fracture Problems Zuorong Chen Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56287 Abstract A new finite element has been implemented in ABAQUS to incorporate the extended finite element method...

...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...

... calculation Upstream Oil & Gas pressure drop requirement geothermal well effective perforation stimulation openhole perforation reservoir Completion Installation and Operations hydraulic fracturing flow rate perforated completion diameter pressure loss fracture system...

... 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...

... microseismic monitoring Reservoir Characterization hydraulic fracturing information Upstream Oil & Gas Exhibition Effectiveness spe annual technical conference source mechanism Mayerhofer microseismicity height growth Magnitude hydraulic fracture growth Warpinski monitoring...

...). Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing, Petroleum Transactions AIME, T., 210, 4597. Estimation of the Impact of Mining on Stresses by Actual Measurements in Pre and Post Mining Stages httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56017 925 ABSTRACT To sustain and increase the productivity in a large underground copper mine...

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...Chapter 7 Development of Fracture Networks Through Hydraulic Fracture Growth in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Xi Zhang and Rob Jeffrey Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56405 Abstract A 2-D numerical study was carried out, using a fully coupled...

...Chapter 19 Initiation and Breakdown of an Axisymmetric Hydraulic Fracture Transverse to a Horizontal Wellbore Safdar Abbas and Brice Lecampion Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56262 Abstract We investigate the initiation and early-stage...

...Chapter 31 Modified Formulation, -Regularization and the Efficient Solution of Hydraulic Fracture Problems Alexander M. Linkov and Gennady Mishuris Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56218 1. Introduction Analytical models and numerical simulation...

...Chapter 11 Regulatory Nirvana for Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation Barry Goldstein, Michael Malavazos, Alexandra Wickham, Michael Jarosz, Dominic Pepicelli, Mieka Webb and Dale Wenham Additional information is available at the end of the chapter httpdx.doi.org/10.5772/56381 Abstract Government...

... low permeability of the shale means simple, bi-planar hydraulic fractures do not provide enough surface area to make an economic well. In these cases, the optimal, economic completion requires stimulation of the natural fracture system - often called increasing the complexity of the stimulation...