... solution is basically unchanged over time, maintaining good friction reduction and sand-carrying performance during the shearing process of large displacement pumping. geologist sedimentary rock upstream oil & gas mineral hydraulic fracturing concentration asia government complex reservoir...

... effective stress-sensitive reservoirs fully penetrated by fractured oil wells. The hydraulic fracture in the proposed mathematical modeling is finite with tip effects and crosses the whole reservoir net-pay. A new permeability stress-sensitive pseudopressure m ⁢ ( σ ′ ) is developed, and the solution...

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...Aishwarya Srinivasan; Joseph Mjehovich; Wen Wang; Kan Wu; Ge Jin; George Moridis Summary Low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing (LF-DAS) has recently received much attention for its ability to monitor fracture propagation at offset wells. Hydraulic Fracture Test Site-2 (HFTS-2), a Department...

...Aishwarya Srinivasan; Yongzan Liu; Kan Wu; Ge Jin; George Moridis Summary Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has recently gained importance in monitoring hydraulic fracturing treatments in the oil and gas industry. DAS data contain critical information about the fracture geometry as linearly...

...William J. Bailey Summary This paper presents a generalized methodology for hydraulic fracturing pump schedule (PS) optimization to maximize a stated objective function. The methodology is illustrated using an example where the objective function of interest is return on investment (RoI...

...Brent A. Kebert; Jennifer L. Miskimins; Gage Soehner; William Hunter Summary Hydraulic fracturing in limited-entry (LE) completion designs relies on maintaining a high bottomhole treating pressure (BHTP). LE requires high perforation friction to maintain an even distribution of the hydraulic...

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...Qian Gao; Desheng Zhou; Ahmad Ghassemi; Xiong Liu; Yafei Liu; Minhao Guo Summary As a mature technology to enhance the permeability of geological formations, hydraulic fracturing has widely been used in geothermal energy development and in the petroleum industry. Due to its effectiveness...

...Sihan Yang; Xiaoping Li; Qiguo Liu; Youjie Xu Summary Since there are several hydraulic fractures around a wellbore after a large-scale hydraulic fracturing and the well is not in the center of the reservoir, no corresponding semianalytical model for wellbore pressure analysis has been proposed...

... were used to calibrate a hydraulic fracture model to enable more reliable predictions of fracture geometry and morphology. Cluster-level measurements of fluid distribution provided data to support increasing clusters per stage and decreasing stage count. Production has been monitored continuously...

...Xiao Jin; Alhad Phatak; Dawn Friesen; Aaron Sanders; Ginger Ren; Nicholas Koster Summary Surfactants are typically used in hydraulic fracturing applications to perform a single function, which results in multiple surfactants being used during operations. In this study, flow loop and coreflood tests...

... that the properties and geometries of NFs/hydraulic fractures have a significant influence on the pressure behaviors. In contrast to the dual-porosity model, the DFMs can accurately characterize each fracture ( Olorode et al. 2020 ). The DFMs can usually be divided into DFM and embedded DFM (EDFM). In DFM...

... fluid to generate a complex fracture network and then injecting a water-based slurry (e.g., slickwater and linear gels) to further increase the stimulated surface area, transport proppant, and generate near-wellbore conductivity. While water-based fluids provide sufficient primary hydraulic fracture...

...Shabeeb Alajmei; Jennifer Miskimins Summary Proppant transport in horizontal wellbores has received significant industry focus over the past decade. One of the most challenging tasks in the hydraulic fracturing of a horizontal well is to predict the proppant concentration that enters each...

... in comparison with pressure-based membrane processes, high cost of membrane distillation modules, vulnerability to pore wetting, and high thermal energy consumption. reservoir characterization hydraulic fracturing concentration composition database spe production shale gas upstream oil...

... mixed to bridge and plug hydraulic fractures. BVOH diverting agents were evaluated for slit widths of 1–4 mm with different pellet geometries using a high-pressure and high-temperature filtration apparatus. The swelling and dissolution rates depend on many parameters such as the temperature, dissolution...

...Yongzan Liu; Ge Jin; Kan Wu; George Moridis Summary Low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing (LF-DAS) has been used for hydraulic fracture monitoring and characterization. Large amounts of DAS data have been acquired across different formations. The low-frequency components of DAS data are highly...

...Maunish Shah; Nicholas A. Koster; Connor Clark; Subhash N. Shah Summary The technique of employing specialized particulates for far-field diversion is well established during hydraulic fracturing treatments in unconventional formations and is being investigated for use in conventional formations...

... interaction is often marked by signature pressure responses, that are a combined outcome of acid reaction kinetics, responses to changes in fluid viscosity and densities, fluid-frictional drop in narrow hydraulic fractures, and other such parameters. This paper focuses on interpretation of bottomhole...