... The development of natural fractures in tight gas reservoirs is a fundamental requirement for fracture network formation ( Guangyu Liu, etal 2020 ). The development of natural fractures has a great influence on the filtration of fracturing fluids, and the opening of natural fractures will change...

... and complex fracture geometries in the single model, a well testing based model for a finite-conductivity fractured vertical well in radial composite reservoirs with dynamic supply and fracture networks is established. Based on "successive steady state method", the point source function, pressure...

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... Abstract Choosing an appropriate technique for upscaling the permeability of the discreet fracture network (DFN) model is vital for maximizing recovery from naturally fractured reservoirs (NFR). Flow -based upscaling is accurate, yet it is computationally expensive. Analytical (i.e. Oda method...

... algorithm of EDFM, especially for its 3D implementations. A test case and an application example for complex fracture network are implemented to verify that this modified EDFM can significantly improve the early-time simulation accuracy to greatly eliminate the errors of the original EDFM. complex...

... is a naturally fractured formation, and it is vital to account for the natural fractures during a simulation study. A discrete fracture network (DFN) model and a 3D mechanical earth model (3D MEM) were created and used to determine the complexity of the hydraulic fracture geometry. The microseismic data obtained...

... inspired new technologies to economize the extensive fracturing treatments necessary to complete extremely low permeability commercial wells. While bi-wing fractures are typically achieved during conventional fracture stimulation applications, it is often necessary to generate a complex fracturing network...

... and interactions from historic reservoir pore pressure, saturation and stress to frack pumping schedule, fluid and proppant volume which will impact re-frack fracture network development in great detail and production behavior of re-frack well in an integrated model and simulation process. At the same time, how...

... Abstract Microseismic monitoring technology is widely used to characterize the fracture network and provide enough information on fracture geometry and properties. We go beyond the existing method that uses planar fractures or orthogonal conjugate fractures for representing the fracture network...

... each fracturing stage in shale gas reservoir. This model considers the interference effect of multiple fractures, and subdivides the SRV into shear-SRV and tensile-SRV according to the failure type of natural fractures network. In order to validate the feasibility and reliability of the model...

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... methods are based mainly upon empirical approaches which, to a large extend, are uncertain and imperfect. This paper established a novel but simple mathematical model to calculate the volume of proppant, merely using optimized parameters of fracture network obtained from numerical simulation. Since...

... is therefore difficult to generate fracture network. How to enable all fractures propagate effectively from each cluster and generate enough stress interference to enable fracture network is of critical concern. This paper established a 2D fracture propagation model based on finite-element method to simulate...

... a network of connected fractures such as Dual Porosity model. It is assumed that fracture network is primary continuum for fluid flow, the matrix of low permeability, high storativity is considered to be a sink/source to the fracture. The matrix and the fracture communicate through an exchange term which...

.... Interacting with the pre-existing natural fractures, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing along horizontal wells creates complex fracture networks. Compared with the traditional single or multiple planar fractures, the flow process in these fracture networks is significantly different due to the complex interplay...

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... and mine data to derive fully calibrated and deterministic fault/fracture network volumes for resources. Examples from Oil & Gas, Mining and Geothermal projects around the world demonstrate that these new techniques can provide a step-change in understanding drilling, production and safety issues...