... fracture model, simulating dispersion during transportation in sand-mixing tanks and fractures, respectively. The specific practical steps were as follows: Beaker experiment: Fracturing fluid was prepared according to the experiment; 150 g of it was weighed and placed into the beaker. Then, 15 g...

... and multiple-perforation injection mode strategies should be applied first to improve the proppant transport efficiency. 31 5 2023 5 9 2023 31 8 2023 21 9 2023 Copyright © 2023 Society of Petroleum Engineers upstream oil & gas proppant geologist fracturing fluid united...

...Bailong Liu; Deyi Yang; Takatoshi Ito Summary Hydraulic fracturing can produce a main fracture and increase flow efficiency. It can also result in the invasion of fracturing fluid, which can produce clay swelling. The invasion can block the pores and throats in the porous media and damage matrix...

... inclined fractures with tortuous shapes exhibit significant disparities when compared with their straight counterparts. 8 6 2023 23 8 2023 5 8 2023 14 9 2023 Copyright © 2023 Society of Petroleum Engineers sedimentary rock fracture characterization fracturing fluid...

.... It can be a crucial part of artificial intelligence hydraulic fracturing. 15 7 2022 13 1 2023 5 1 2023 6 2 2023 9 8 2023 Copyright © 2023 Society of Petroleum Engineers neural network artificial intelligence particle fracturing fluid hydraulic fracturing...

...Yang Zhang; Shuyue Xiao; Jincheng Mao; Ming Li; Tao Xu; Jinhua Mao; Quanhang Wang; Zigao Huang; Xiaojiang Yang; Chong Lin; Meitao Fu; Zhiyu Huang; Qi Dong; Qiulei Luan; Guoshuai Zhang Summary Successful fracturing operations heavily rely on the performance of fracturing fluids (FFs), which mainly...

... reduce sand production. 14 4 2022 27 2 2023 5 2 2023 14 3 2023 9 8 2023 Copyright © 2023 Society of Petroleum Engineers upstream oil & gas fluid dynamics proppant production logging fracturing materials fracturing fluid flow in porous media sand control...

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...Yanli Pei; Hongjie Xiong Summary Operator H’s wells on University Lands acreage in the Delaware Basin were completed with a perforation cluster spacing of around 45 ft and a fracturing fluid volume of about 25 bbl/ft. However, other operators in this area used half or even smaller perforation...

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... set 1 geologist fracturing fluid modeling & simulation geological subdiscipline proppant permeability extraction equation thermal expansion coefficient particle young proppant set 2 where q v is the volumetric heat source intensity (W/m 3 ), q i...

...Ghith Biheri; Abdulmohsin Imqam Summary Excellent proppant transport can be accomplished by introducing high-viscosity friction reducer (HVFR) fracture fluids. However, HVFRs face several challenges that prevent these fluids from providing good proppant transport performance, including the presence...

... and coverage area of the proppant bed. The experimental results and laws provide novel understandings that can help optimize hydraulic fracturing design and treatment by rationally selecting proppant and fracturing fluid to improve the productivity in tight reservoirs. Fig. 3 Proppant samples...

...-making process of selecting fracturing fluids is proposed. Copyright © 2023 Society of Petroleum Engineers production enhancement well intervention north america government united states government hvfr fracturing materials produced water discharge fracturing fluid hydraulic fracturing...

...Zhiwei Zhang; Fei Zhao; Yuling Meng; Junzhang Lin; Yanpeng Xu; Yun Feng; Feng Ding; Piwu Li Summary An effective fracturing fluid should have sufficient viscosity to fracture the oil-bearing layer at the initial stage and should be removed smoothly at a later stage by controlling the release rate...

... with more variable Na + content. produced water management and control fracturing materials fracturing fluid proppant us government upstream oil & gas energy economics hydraulic fracturing unconventional resource economics produced water discharge concentration operation salinity usa...

...Yanan Ding; Daoyong Yang; Hai Huang; Haiwen Wang Summary Although non-Newtonian fracturing fluids have been widely used, numerical simulation of field-scale proppant transport considering non-Newtonian fracturing fluids is far from satisfactory. In this study, a novel numerical scheme based...

...Amit Singh; Xinghui Liu; Jiehao Wang; Margaretha C. M. Rijken Summary Effective proppant placement has been one of the key objectives of hydraulic fracturing. Different proppant and fracture fluid characteristics and placement methodologies have been historically applied based on learnings from...