... proppant transport during three-dimensional (3D) hydraulic fracture propagation in multi-layer formations. The results demonstrate that hydraulic fracture height growth mitigates the form of proppant bed, so the proppant placement is more uniform in the hydraulic fracture under a smaller stress contrast...

.... This led to the conclusion, that hydraulic fracture propagation downward into the Frontier was limited by the highly laminated rock and well contained within the Turner. Additional differences between the RTA and numerical results are attributed to the true complexity of the final hydraulic fracture...

... outcome. Stress interference between the fracturing sources in a stage highly affects the outcome of each fracturing source. Middle fracturing sources tend to result in inhibited hydraulic fracture propagations while outer fracturing sources achieve hydraulic fracture propagations with outward curvatures...

... In order to estimate the hydraulic fracture length, it is important to isolate microseismicity that is relevant to the hydraulic fracture propagation. As a first step of the analysis, the events that occurred during the injection are separated from the events that occurred past the injection. After...

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... hydraulic fracture rock tensile failure hydraulic fracturing hydraulic fracture propagation tendency fracture propagation fractured reservoir fracture node interaction Angular Position fracture propagation INTRODUCTION Large volumes of natural gas are stored in low-permeable fractured...

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... Abstract We performed scaled laboratory experiments of hydraulic fracture propagation and closure in soft artificial rock and outcrop rock samples. We also performed numerical simulations of the fracture behaviour in plastic rocks, using independently measured rock properties. The simulations...

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