... Abstract The Vaca Muerta shale is complex, exhibiting significant lateral and vertical variability in lithology, mineralogy, organic content, pore structure, and thermal maturity. Natural fractures and laminations due to beef, ash beds and concretions further complicate extraction and recovery...

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... Abstract Vaca Muerta shale is among the most promising unconventional plays outside of North America. Like other shale plays, it is developed using multistage hydraulic fracturing technology. In this experiment, dual microseismic arrays were deployed during stimulation to monitor fracture...

... to rock and fluid heterogeneity and others to completion and production techniques. Therefore, understanding the differences between prospective areas by analyzing production data alone becomes an enormous challenge. We studied three vertical oil wells (1, 2, and 3) in the Vaca Muerta shale located...

... concentration Vaca Muerta shale reduction axial load permeability platen conductivity proppant grain conductivity cell URTeC: 2670951 Laboratory Investigation of Proppant-Pack Conductivity: Eagle Ford and Vaca Muerta Shale Abhinav Mittal*, Chandra S. Rai, and Carl H. Sondergeld Mewbourne School...

... geometry events (such as fracture net pressure level and microseismic events) and history matching production of existing laterals in the Vaca Muerta shale. Different scenarios are then considered to evaluate the interaction of the hydraulic fracturing, the reservoir properties, fluid type and well spacing...

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... with advanced laboratory analyses, was used to characterize the distribution of petrophysical properties along a core spanning the entire section of the Neuquén basin Vaca Muerta shale. A novel quantitative extraction and gas chromatography method was used to measure the total hydrocarbon composition (C1–C30...

... Abstract Like any unconventional resource, the economic viability of the Vaca Muerta shale, located in the Neuquén basin, Argentina, depends on the ability to effectively connect the tight rock fabric to the wellbore by creating complex fracture networks. This requirement makes the completion...