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AAPG Bulletin; Year: 2024; Issue: January DOI: 10.1306/10242221078
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Figure 8.
Simple physics-based model of oil and gas production in shales. H is the shale formation thickness, 2d is the effective distance between two consecutive hydraulic fractures, and 2L is the tip-to-tip length of the hydraulic fractures. The arrows show the linear flows occurring during the production: from inside the stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) toward the hydraulic fracturing stages (interior flow), and from the outside the SRV toward the lateral section (exterior flow). 
is the producible hydrocarbon mass per one of the N hydraulic fracture stages per lateral.
Figure 8.
Simple physics-based model of oil and gas production in shales. H is the shale formation thickness, 2d is the effective distance between two consecutive hydraulic fractures, and 2L is the tip-to-tip length of the hydraulic fractures. The arrows show the linear flows occurring during the production: from inside the stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) toward the hydraulic fracturing stages (interior flow), and from the outside the SRV toward the lateral section (exterior flow). is the producible hydrocarbon mass per one of the N hydraulic fracture stages per lateral.