... gas and light oil. hydraulic fracturing flow in porous media Upstream Oil & Gas fracture conductivity optimum fracture Modeling & Simulation PVT measurement fracture overlap correlation staggered perforation perforation cluster perforation Scenario Mayerhofer unconventional...

... Abstract Crush resistance has become a key, perhaps even the singular, parameter used in selection of proppant for hydraulic fracture stimulation operations. The API Recommended Practice 19C (RP19C)—which is identical to the ISO13503-2 standard 1 — lays out procedures intended to produce...

... Abstract Induced fracture complexity maximization, in addition to the primary hydraulic fracture, to improve the recovery efficiency or productivity of gas or liquids in unconventional reservoirs has been accepted and fully implemented by the industry. As a result, stimulation fluids...

... Abstract Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling has been the technology that makes it possible to economically produce natural gas from unconventional shale gas reservoirs. For best performance of fracturing stimulation, hydraulic fracturing designing parameters...

... 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...

.... , Mack , M. G. 2011b . Integrating Microseismic Mapping and Complex Fracture Modeling to Characterize Hydraulic Fracture Complexity . Paper SPE 140185 presented at SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference , The Woodlands, Texas , 24–26 January . Cipolla , C. L. , Maxwell , S...

... semilog derivative hydraulic fracturing analysis method reservoir pressure injection falloff test-pressure difference fracture drawdown buildup Introduction Pressure diagnostics, including prefrac fracture-injection/falloff tests, have become the preferred well test in unconventional...

... shale complex reservoir Simulation solid phase Reservoir Characterization hydraulic fracturing Fluid Dynamics Computation reaction in-situ upgrading gaseous phase kerogen liquid organic phase hydrocarbon decomposition equation heating saturation fracture in-situ upgrading process oil...

... to be a primary driver for the performance of shale gas/oil wells. Since linear flow is the main transient flow regime in the early life of a hydraulically-fractured shale gas/oil well, a Rate Normalized Pressure (RNP) versus Square Root of Time plot is the most commonly used diagnostic plot for the performance...

... with much less computational time and lower cost. In order to prove stress dependent permeability and develop a model, first a three dimensional hydraulic fracture model is constructed based on wire-line logs and mini-frac tests, then the resulting fracture geometry and conductivity are used as input data...

..." is available, this study allows us to objectively evaluate and optimize production data analysis best practices. Artificial Intelligence Upstream Oil & Gas deterministic approach hydraulic fracturing Fluid Dynamics flow in porous media drillstem/well testing rigorous approach production data...

... is typically with vertical wells, which are stimulated with multiple hydraulic fractures targeting the expected pay intervals and are produced commingled. A significant challenge for operators is determining the optimum well locations and spacing for efficient reserve development. Operators use various field...

... of fracture asymmetry and increase EUR. hydraulic fracturing Upstream Oil & Gas reservoir geomechanics Reservoir Characterization correspond History Match fracture propagation modeling Simulation effective fracture half-length pressure depletion fracture half-length fracture wing...

... Abstract Hydraulic fracturing in unconventional reservoirs has increased rapidly in the past ten years. Each year, technologies are improved and methodologies are refined, making this process faster, safer, and more economical. Currently, plug-and-perforate is the most common type of hydraulic...

... in shales (100-mesh and 40-70), and this supports the geomechanics model which determines the fracture widths by matching microseismic data. machine learning proppant Palmer frac stage fracturing materials fracturing fluid hydraulic fracturing microseismic cloud porosity Artificial...

... in Mokhtari's setup and reservoir pressure in subsurface applications). Hoang et al. (2011) present a thermo-hydraulic model for the wellbore and reservoir for a perforated completion and account for the fluid leakage to the reservoir from the wellbore during a hydraulic fracturing treatment. However, they do...

... the surface FIT-based closure time; however, microfracturing entails additional rig time. In-situ stresses control the orientation and propagation direction of hydraulic fractures. Microfractures are tensile fractures that open in the direction of least resistance. These fractures are also affected by hoop...

... 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...

.... ∂ V ¯ f ∂ P is the inverse of the fracture stiffness, S f , defined by the elastic or strain energy required to keep a hydraulic fracture open ( Craig, 2006 ). The final material balance equation is in the form of a tank model: (19) ∂ P f ∂ t = − q t C...