Browsing by Subject "Hydraulic Fracturing"
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(2014-12-18)Concerns about the substantial amounts of water and chemicals pumped into the subsurface during hydraulic fracturing are valid because long term effects of these stimulation actions are unknown at the present time. Although ...
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(2013-09-27)Previously unattainable shale gas deposits have become accessible since the late 1990s using a technique called hydraulic fracturing — the injection of chemicals, water, and sand into subsurface shale to free extractable ...
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(2016-08-09)The flowback performance of multi-fractured horizontal wells completed in an ultra-low permeability (shale) reservoir often includes an anomalous flowrate feature at early times prior to the development of a characteristic ...
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(2012-02-14)Unbroken gel and residue from guar-based fracturing gels can be a cause for formation damage. The effectiveness of a fracturing treatment depends on better achieveing desired fracture geometry, proper proppant placement ...
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(2014-09-05)Hydraulic fracture treatments are used in low permeability shale reservoirs in order to provide highly conductive pathways from the reservoir to the wellbore. The success of these treatments is highly reliant on the created ...
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(2017-08-04)The future energy portfolio at the national and subnational levels should consider its impact on water resources and environment. Although energy resources are the main contributors to the national economic growth, these ...
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(2019-05-23)Local Dynamic Mode Decomposition with control (LDMDc) technique combines the concept of unsupervised learning and DMDc technique to extract the relevant local dynamics associated with highly nonlinear processes to build ...
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(2023-01-23)Hydraulic fracturing technique has significantly evolved with larger fluid volume, more fracturing stages, and tighter perforation cluster spacing to efficiently stimulate unconventional reservoirs. Several field observations ...
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(2019-04-09)The coupling of the technologies of the horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations has enabled the economic development of the shale oil and gas reservoirs and led to the recent significant increase in the ...
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(2012-10-24)Hydraulic Fracturing stimulation technology is used to increase the amount of oil and gas produced from low permeability reservoirs. The primary objective of the process is to increase the conductivity of the reservoir by ...
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(2018-07-29)Unconventional reservoir systems are heterogeneous, thinly layered, and often exhibit strongly contrasting properties between layers. In addition, the interfaces between layers vary in strength (friction and cohesion) and, ...
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According to the US Energy Information Administration, over 50% of the oil and natural gas produced in the US came from hydraulically fractured wells in 2015. While the economic and geopolitical benefits of this new industry ...
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(2021-12-08)The objective of this study was to implement the use of drill cuttings in hydraulic fracturing-related operations. Two specific uses were studied: the use of drill cuttings as propping agents in hydraulic fracturing, and ...
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(2014-04-07)Commercial recovery of oil and gas from ultra-tight shale formations depends significantly on the performance of hydraulic fracturing. Enhancing the performance of the stimulation treatment can improve the estimated ultimate ...
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(2012-11-30)Successful development of shale gas reservoirs is highly dependent on hydraulic fracture treatments. Many questions remain in regards to the geometry of the created fractures. Production data analysis from some shale gas ...
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(2011-02-22)The conductivity of acid-etched fractures highly depends on spaces along the fracture created by uneven etching of the fracture walls remaining open after fracture closure. Formation heterogeneities such as variations of ...
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(2013-12-06)Chances of cement sheath failure increase considerably when the application involves deep, high pressure/ high temperature (HPHT) wells. Such failures occur as a result of temperature and pressure-induced stresses created ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This thesis presents and develops efficient and effective methodologies for optimal hydraulic fracture design and fracture performance evaluation. These methods incorporate algorithms that simultaneously optimize all of ...
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(2011-02-22)The distributions of pore pressure and stresses around a fracture are of interest in conventional hydraulic fracturing operations, fracturing during water-flooding of petroleum reservoirs, shale gas, and injection/extraction ...
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(2014-11-12)The overall goal of this study is to generate discrete fracture networks using microseismic and core data from a natural fractured reservoir that has been hydraulically stimulated. To improve fracture characterization, a ...