... Abstract Handling flow through fractured media is critical for transient pressure and flow analysis in shale gas reservoirs, because gas production from such low-permeability formations relies on fractures, from hydraulic fractures and fracture network to various-scaled natural fractures...

... Abstract The Eagle Ford Shale is recognized as the largest oil and gas development in the world, based on capital investment ( Wood Mackenzie 2012 ). Development typically consists of horizontal wells stimulated with multiple hydraulic fracture stages. Almost $30 billion will be spent...

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... fracture propagating away from the wellbore. The other three simulations used a stochastically generated network of natural fractures and assumed that as hydraulic fractures propagated through the formation, they terminated when they intersected natural fractures. The termination process created complex...

.... The technological advances in multiple stage hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have improved the overall profitability of oil shale plays by enhancing the matrix – wellbore connectivity. The combination of these technologies has become the key factor for the operators to reach economically attractive...

... of multiphase flow, stress and pressure dependent permeability, condensate banking, flow through hydraulic fractures and stimulated rock volume (SRV) region, etc. on the reservoir performance of LRS plays. Single well modeling has been extensively used to model well and reservoir performance from shale plays...

... to the specific conditions in a particular well. This paper presents a case study from the Eagle Ford Shale and describes a step-by-step workflow to simulate hydraulic fractures using a state of the art, reservoir-centric stimulation design tool (RCSD). The presented approach incorporated petrophysical data...

... and booking of reserves; 2. Anisotropic geomechanical models were the most appropriate for simulating hydraulic fracturing treatments; 3. Conventional hydraulic fracturing models do not always represent the behavior of fractures in the unconventional formations evaluated; 4. Production rates along the lateral...

... Abstract Horizontal wells with multistage hydraulic fracturing stimulation become the common practice in developing tight and shale gas reservoirs. For gas condensate reservoirs, heavier components in the gas phase start dropping and decrease the gas mobility due to a relative-permeability...

... along the horizontal wellbore. It is well known in the oil and gas industry that natural fractures, either open or prone to opening during hydraulic fracturing, greatly improve hydrocarbon production in tight sand and shale reservoirs. There are many techniques available to identify natural fractures...

... were missed. The first horizontal well in the Bakken was completed in 1987 in Billings County with pre-perforated or slotted liner, without hydraulic fracture stimulation. It was not until the 1980s that vertical wells were hydraulically fractured ( Olsen et al, 2009 ). In the 1990s, horizontal wells...

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... hypothesis is supported by dry gas flow simulation involving stochastic generation of DFN with various characteristics. The effect of variations in natural fracture lengths, apertures, density, and connectivity are considered along with induced hydraulic fracture dimensions. In view of our findings we...

... fractured vertical well. Additional wells have been drilled, hydraulically fractured and flow tested to further evaluate the development potential of the shale. Prior to 2009, development of the McCully field has included the use of water based hydraulic fracturing to enhance production. In 2009 a fracture...

... for further well design enhancements based upon the study findings and the results of the second horizontal well. hydraulic fracturing shale play geologic model lateral porosity upstream oil & gas fracture network production rate horizontal well hydraulic fracture effective porosity...

... Hydraulic fracturing with large volumes of proppant and water will not only create high conductivity primary hydraulic fractures but also stimulate or reopen natural fractures (if present) near each hydraulic fracture. This process generates a complex fracture network or stimulated reservoir...

... Abstract Microseismic measurements were integrated with seismic reservoir characterization and injection data to investigate variability in the hydraulic fracture response between three horizontal wells in the Montney shale in NE British Columbia, Canada. When wells were close enough, hydraulic...

...-stage hydraulic fracturing treatments are the stimulation method of choice and have been successful in shale gas reservoirs. However, the fundamental science and engineering of the process are yet to be fully understood and hence the stimulation method needs to be optimized. In this paper, we used...

... Abstract Thousands of hydraulic fracture treatments have been monitored in the past ten years using microseismic mapping, providing a wealth of measurements that show a surprising degree of diversity in event patterns. Interpreting the microseismic data to determine the geometry and complexity...

.... Observations of near-wellbore reservoir quality and completion efficiency can be attained from the analysis of this data. Rock properties such as mineralogy, natural fracture density, and closure stress in the near wellbore region impact reservoir quality and hydraulic fracture conductivity. Completion...