... consumption and large volumes of flowback water involved in these activities have induced new challenges. Recycling and reinjecting flowback water for hydraulic fracturing constitute a potential solution. However, the effect of reinjecting flowback water with different salinities on CBM production remains...

...Eric Davis Summary Fiber-optic deployments in offset wells generate multiple data sets, including low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) measurements that provide detailed information on the wellbore axial strain during nearby hydraulic fracture treatments. Analysis of strain during...

...Mohamed Adel Gabry; Amr Ramadan; Mohamed Y. Soliman Summary At the end of a hydraulic fracturing treatment, the pump shuts down, causing a water hammer (WH) effect to occur. The WH is influenced by formation properties and fracture complexity. In this study, we use the continuous wavelet transform...

... and efficient parameter estimation method. 11 10 2024 27 3 2025 25 2 2025 18 4 2025 11 6 2025 Copyright © 2025 Society of Petroleum Engineers fracture characterization reservoir simulation hydraulic fracturing fluid dynamics structural geology neural network flow...

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... fluid dynamics hydraulic fracturing conformance improvement production monitoring fracture gel injection flow rate particle drilling fluids and materials production logging enhanced recovery complex reservoir flow in porous media drilling fluid selection and formulation production control...

...Abdul Muqtadir Khan; Samir Mensaria; Tim Drews; Denis Bannikov; Dinesh Sukumar; Melissa Teoh Summary The energy industry has been taking transformative actions to achieve sustainable growth. Specifically, hydraulic fracturing and associated intervention activities are known to be emissions...

... hydraulic fractures and matrix, which leads to a very long transient period near the fracture surface. To adequately capture the dynamics of multiscale discrete-fracture/matrix and multicontinuum features, a new explicit method exploiting the partition of unity property of shape functions for the discrete...

...Wei Xiong; Hang Deng; Mengling Stuckman; Adam Jew; Johnathan Moore; Dustin Crandall; Christina Lopano; J. Alexandra Hakala Summary The Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site 1 (HFTS-1) was a field study performed in the Wolfcamp Formation in the West Texas Permian (Midland) Basin, USA, with a focus...

...Zhiming Chen; Biao Zhou; Wei Yu; Kamy Sepehrnoori Summary The reservoirs of shale gas are typified by their low porosity and permeability, which generally necessitates the implementation of large-scale hydraulic fracturing for economic development, thereby resulting in highly complex flow...

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...Xiangyang Li; Hancheng Ji; Liang Chen; Fengxia Li; Qingbin Xie; Chenggang Xian; Qichao Lv; Jianhua Qin; Jing Zhang Summary In this study, we investigate the initiation and behavior of hydraulic fractures (HFs) in glutenite reservoirs using data from a post-fracturing cored well in the Triassic...

...Grant Charles Mwakipunda; Norga Alloyce Komba; Edwin Twum Ayimadu; Long Yu Summary Accurate estimation of the brittleness index (BI) is critical for optimizing hydraulic fracturing operations in shale gas reservoirs, as it directly influences fracture propagation and gas recovery efficiency. The BI...

...Meng Cao; Mukul M. Sharma Summary In past studies, pressure changes in natural fractures that are filled with fluids have been ignored when studying the interaction of hydraulic fractures with natural fractures, leading to limitations in fracture design and production optimization. To overcome...

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... piqued interest in unconventional hydrocarbon sources, such as tight shale formations with very low permeability. Standard extraction methods for conventional reservoirs are ineffective here. However, hydrocarbon extraction from these formations is economical because hydraulic fracturing and horizontal...

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..., and for the 15 wells analyzed, this index shows a correlation coefficient of 0.66 with the assessment score of ESSIGSS-AS, indicating that wells with higher ESSIGSS-AS scores experience lower operational difficulty in hydraulic fracturing and higher peak production. The study provides a distribution map of sweet...

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