... Abstract With increased focus on CO2 storage, hydraulic fracturing, and steam injection operations in recent years, understanding of fluid induced seismicity has drawn a lot of attention amongst researchers and practicing engineers. Reactivation of existing dormant faults due to injection...

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... Abstract Recently, the elevated levels of seismicity activities in Western Canada have been demonstrated to be linked to hydraulic fracturing operations that developed unconventional resources. The underlying triggering mechanisms of hydraulic fracturing-induced seismicity are still uncertain...

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... Abstract An existing equation-of-state compositional simulator is extended to include proppant transport. The simulator determines the final location of the proppant after fracture closure, which allows the computation of the permeability along the hydraulic fracture. The simulation...

... Abstract We investigate unconditionally stable sequential algorithms for coupled hydraulically fractured geomechanics and flow systems, which can account for poromechanics behavior within the fractures. We focus on modifying the concepts of the fixed stress and undrained sequential methods...

... of the dynamic behavior of fractures and the accompanying poroelastic deformations on the safety and productivity of subsurface projects. reservoir characterization modeling variation & wheeler hydraulic fracturing displacement wheeler production well upstream oil & gas computational...

... and hydraulic fractures to capture the stress-dependent fracture stiffness. The force balance equation is discretized by the finite element method (FEM) and coupled with IEDFM to form an iterative coupling simulation approach. A water flooding example in a naturally fractured reservoir and a depletion example...

...-phase flow in a realistic fracture geometry. The DPDP results match well the DFM reference solution, while being significantly faster than the latter. machine learning complex reservoir artificial intelligence hydraulic fracturing scaling method reservoir simulation simulation dpdp model...

... ) Abstract The imbibition process due to capillary force is an important mechanism that controls fluid flow between the two domains, matrix and fracture, in naturally or hydraulically fractured reservoirs. Many simulation studies have been done in the past decades to understand the multi-phase flow...

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.... Although high-resolution models for well and fracture are required to achieve adequate resolution, they are computationally too demanding for practical field models with many stages of hydraulic fracture. The paper aims to innovate localization strategies that take advantage of locality on timestep...

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... and borehole. A stimulated coalbed is defined as an assembly of three interacting porous media: matrix, continuous fractures (CF) and radial primary hydraulic fracture (RF). Matrix and CF constitute a dual-porosity-dual-permeability system, while RF is simplified as an 1-D cracked medium. These media further...

... fluid, resulting in thermal/poroelastic responses near the hydraulic fractured area which are the dominant factors of fluid flow. In this paper, the three-dimensional (3D) Embedded Discrete Fracture Model (EDFM) was adopted to describe the geometry of the fracture and simulate fluid flow and heat...

... propagation. This extends the capabilities of many legacy reservoir simulators to handle more physics. Artificial Intelligence complex reservoir scientific computing Fluid Dynamics hydraulic fracturing concentration reservoir simulator geomechanics representation fracture network velocity...

... for gravity drainage. These findings are explained by analyzing the matrix-fracture flows, and implications on efforts to improve shape factors in DPDK models and upscaling efforts in DFM models are discussed. hydraulic fracturing Upstream Oil & Gas Gravity Drainage fracture system reservoir...

... Lagrange Multipliers. A number of numerical tests are performed to investigate the Newmark scheme's accuracy and cases for wave propagation in poroelastic and natural fracture media are implemented to evaluate computational efficiency. We apply the method to model seismic data from hydraulic fracture...