Methods to Determination of Brittle-Ductile Transition Zone of Shale

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Rock Fabric Not Principal Stress Dictates SRV: The Story of How a ~70 Year Old Discounted Data Point Still Plagues Our Industry and How True Triaxial Testing Finally Confirms It

Giovanni Grasselli, Matthew G. Adams, Aly Abdelaziz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a horizontal fracture (that was tested) in stratified gelatin". They discounted this result stating that it was an outlier because of the "weakness...

Developing Predictive Models for Shale Reservoirs

Stephen A. Holditch, Carlos A. Dengo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fracture treatment data to verify if our rock mechanics information can be used to match real field data. Thus, input from drilling engineers...

Rock Physics Study of Coal Bed Methane Reservoir Rock: Case Study of Muaraenim Coal

Bagus Endar B. Nurhandoko, Susilowati, Usep M. Ishaq, Hussein Rudiyanto, Y. Wiyanto, Budi Sulistyanto, Mahatman L. Budi, Kaswandhi Triyoso, KiskoRiondo Siahaan, Wahyu E. Abdillah, Danang Kusudiharjo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in Rock Physics laboratory. Some studies were carried out on MuaraEnim coal samples. These samples contain many types of porosity, i.e.: fracture...

Abstract: Advances in the use of Wireless Technology for Real-time Seismic Recording—Applications to Seismic Surveys and Passive Monitoring , by R. Kligfield, G. Jones, M. Lambert, and D. Crice, #90188 (2014)

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Elk Hills Monterey Formation - Challenge of Incorporating Complex Natural Fractures to Improve Production Understanding

Robert Gales, Rad Sobczyk, Nicholas Harvey

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... is above the threshold, the fracture is said to exist and the detection length is added to the circumferential length. Figure 14. Fracture Frequency...

A Practical Workflow for Determining the Individual-Stage Fracture Network Using Flowback Dynamics and Microseismic Data: A Case Study

Linkai Li, Yue Wang, Xiao Guo, Zhendong Gao

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...; Cipolla et al., 2011). As the main method of the fracture network characterization during and after fracturing, microseismic monitoring can offer real-time...

Microseismicity and Geomechanics: Modeling and Comparisons

Scott Johnson, Randolph R. Settgast, Pengcheng Fu, Stuart Walsh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... on the fracture at the failure threshold, C0 is the cohesion, μrs is the friction coefficient as evaluated through the rate-and-state friction law, σn...

Next Generation Reservoir Engineering

Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Xiao Chen, Thomas Poulet, Manolis Veveakis, Hamid Roshan

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and importance to real world conditions. The working hypothesis to be investigated is hence, whether the success of Shale Gas extraction from reservoirs...

Intelligent Prediction of Shale Oil Fracturing Curves Based on A Sequence-to-Sequence Model

Leyi Zheng, Tianbo Liang, Yunjin Wang, Fujian Zhou, Junlin Wu, Bin Wang, Jiaming Zhang, Maoqin Yang, Gong Chen, Xingyuan Liang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... prediction of the wellhead pressure throughout the entire time steps of the fracturing stage (including the fracture initiation, fracture propagation...

Producing Gas-Oil Ratio Behavior of Unconventional Volatile-Oil Reservoirs, and Its Application in Production Diagnostics and Decline Curve Analysis

M. Khoshghadam, A. Khanal, C. Yu, N. Rabinejadganji, W. John Lee

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... and the multiple porous media flow systems created by multi-stage fracture stimulation. We used the numerical model to generate synthetic datasets based...

Assessment of Micro-Fracture Density using Combined Interpretation of NMR Relaxometry and Electromagnetic Logs

Lu Chi, Marcus, Elliot, Zoya Heidari, Mark Everett

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... the apparent volume fraction measured by NMR, which has been overestimated from the real value due to fracture-pore diffusional coupling. According...

Abstract: Measuring the Currently Unmeasured in a Resource Play: Model of Rulison Nuclear Re-Entry Well Shows Higher Than Expected Gas-in-Place, by B. Richter, D. Simpson, and S. Kleinsteiber; #90092 (2009)

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Simple Pyrolysis Technique Using Well Cuttings to Map Source Rocks, Gas-Condensate Maturity, and Abnormal Fluid Pressures Associated with Fracture Reservoirs: Example from Anadarko Basin: ABSTRACT

W. Jerry Koch, Fred F. Meissner

AAPG Bulletin

...Simple Pyrolysis Technique Using Well Cuttings to Map Source Rocks, Gas-Condensate Maturity, and Abnormal Fluid Pressures Associated with Fracture...

Novel Monitoring Technology Helps to Make Informed Decisions and Maximize the Efficiency of Completion Strategy

Sergey Parkhonyuk, Roman Korkin, Artem Kabannik, Andrey Fedorov, Max Nikolaev, Fedor Litvinets

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., or the fracture begins to bridge rapidly. These types of events are important to know in either real time or near real time to make a proper adjustment...

Inference of Induced Fracture Geometries Using Fiber-Optic Distributed Strain Sensing in Hydraulic Fracture Test Site 2

Stephen Bourne, Kees Hindriks, Alexei A. Savitski, Gustavo A. Ugueto, Magdalena Wojtaszek

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Inference of Induced Fracture Geometries Using Fiber-Optic Distributed Strain Sensing in Hydraulic Fracture Test Site 2 Stephen Bourne, Kees...

Sensitivity Analysis of the Main Variables Affecting the EUR Response Under Parent-Child Effect, Using a Comprehensive Simulation Workflow in the Core of Vaca Muerta

David Martins Cruz, Mauro Iván Weimann, Dave Ratcliff

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... data. The calibration process was divided into three main steps: calibration of fracture geometry and physics, calibration of the flow rates using real...

From Semi-Circular Bending Test to Microseismic Maps: An Integrated Modeling Approach to Incorporate Natural Fracture Effects on Hydraulic Fracturing

Arash Dahi Taleghani, Ping Puyang, Bhaba Sarker, Miguel Gonzalez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... network based on microseismic mapping results for a real field example. Cohesive Zone Model (CZM ) Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics ( LEFM ) (Atkinson...

Impact of Natural Fractures Beyond the Hydraulic Fracture Complexity in Unconventional Reservoirs … A Permian Case Study

Piyush Pankaj, James Li

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Impact of Natural Fractures Beyond the Hydraulic Fracture Complexity in Unconventional Reservoirs … A Permian Case Study Piyush Pankaj, James Li...

Abstract: The Study and Application of the Connectivity of the Carbonate Reservoirs in Tarim Basin, by Wang, Jinxi; Zhang, Huquan; Chen, Fangfang; Zhou, Junfeng; #90163 (2013)

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Optimizing Hydraulic Fracturing in Water-Sensitive Shales: A Comparative Study of Frac Fluid Performance

Fatick Nath, Rene Garcilazo Jr, Jorge Collazo Jr

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... shale environments. A commercial 3D fracturing simulator was used to model fracture propagation and proppant transport in horizontal wells from...

A Physics-informed Machine Learning Workflow to Forecast Production in a Fractured Marcellus Shale Reservoir

Michael R. Gross, Jeffrey D. Hyman, Shriram Srinivasan, Daniel O’Malley, Satish Karra, Maruti K. Mudunuru, Matthew Sweeney, Luke Frash, Bill Carey, George D. Guthrie, Tim Carr, Liwei Li, Dustin Crandall, Hari Viswanathan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... physics-based models to enable near real-time forecasting. Reservoir models specific to unconventionals must account for fracture dominated systems...

Experimental Study of Proppant Flowback with Standard Core Samples

Xinyao Zhang, Huiying Tang, Kaixiang Di, Cheng Du, Shiyi Xie, Liehui Zhang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... on flowback processes (Garagash et al., 2019). Coupled CFD-DEM approaches have further clarified the impact of particle-scale properties and fracture network...

A Rapid and Robust Approach for Optimizing Production in the Northern Delaware Basin

Cyrille Defeu, Brian D. Clark, Eric F. Wigger, Mike Mayerhofer, Todd Passmore, John Speight

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for the models to converge on a pore pressure for each zone and a single set of tectonic strains that reproduced real world results effectively...

A Single Core Test for Fracability, Breakdown Pressure and Conductivity

Zhengwen Zeng, Abdalah Harouaka

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... between semi-brittle and semi-ductile under an intermediate confining pressure range which corresponds to the majority of real world reservoir...