A New Computational Model to Predict Breakdown Pressures in Cased and Perforated Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs

Mohammed Kurdi, Hamid Roshan

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... such reservoirs. However, depending on the in-situ stress magnitude and/or regime, breakdown pressures can be too extreme to achieve, given the available surface...

3-D Anisotropic Damage Mechanics for Modeling Interaction Between Hydraulic and Natural Fracture Planes in a Layered Rock … Application to Eagle Ford and Wolfcamp

Yamina Aimene, Chad Hammerquist, John A. Nairn, Ahmed Ouenes

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that full 3D modeling is needed. For example, in a strike-slip stress regime, when dealing with natural fracture planes that are not vertical, or when...

Geomechanical, Geological, and Engineering Controls of Hydraulic Fracturing

Gang Han, Kirk Bartko, Uno Mutlu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in a normal in-situ stress regime when the stress perturbations around perforations are sufficiently large. This magnifies fracture tortuosity...

Implication of Tectonic Inversion for the Existence of Hydrocarbons in Fractured Basement Reservoirs: A Case Study from Jabung Block, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia

G. Rifky Brahmanthya W. P. N., Beiruny Syam, Bella Dinna Safitri, M. N. Alamsyah, Salahudin Husein, Eko Widianto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... test in NEB Base-2 well showed no indication of influx from the well. Therefore, further investigation on the fracture characteristics from both wells...

Reservoir Characterizations of Pre-Tertiary Basement Fracture and Its Implication to The Production Behavior. A Case Study of Pase Field North Sumatra Basin Indonesia

Mirzal Nur Ardhie

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in the NSB. The expected model of shear ellipsoid under the NE – SW stress regime. 19 A-6 well A-5 well High intense fracture Low intense fracture...

Modeling of Fiber-optic Strain Response When Pumping Stops to Verify Potential Continuation of Fracture Extension

Kildare George Ramos Gurjao, Eduardo Gildin, Richard Gibson, Mark Everett

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...r to maximum horizontal stress (𝑆 𝐻𝑚𝑎𝑥 ), consequently a transverse hydraulic fracture is generated in non-reverse stress regime. Adopted fiber gauge lengt...

Geomechanical Analysis for CCS Study in the Subang Structure, Northern West Java Basin

Olifia Ammara Venty, Teddy Eka Putra, Nora Desiani

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... analysis, and pressure data measurement analysis. Geomechanical analysis includes estimating fracture gradients and maximum and minimum horizontal stresses...

Laboratory Investigation of Leakoff During Hydraulic Fracturing into Bedding Interfaces

Bradley C. Abell, Pengju Xing, Andrew Bunger, Egor Dontsov, Roberto Suarez-Rivera,

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... can contribute to fluid leakoff during hydraulic fracturing and thus affect fracture geometry, propped surface area, and the overall hydrocarbon...

Structural and Geomechanical Analysis of Fractured Cambrian-Ordovician Reservoirs in the Northern Appalachian Basin; #10793 (2015)

Ola Babarinde, John Miller, Neeraj Gupta, Joel Sminchak, Samin Raziperchikolaee

Search and Discovery.com

... SEPTEMBER 20-22, 2015 FRACTURE ORIENTATION RELATING OBSERVED NATURAL FRACTURES TO PRESENT DAY STRESS FIELD STRESS MAGNITUDES & REGIME IN THE LITHOSPHERIC...

Predicting Fracture Attributes in the Travis Peak Formation Using Quantitative Mechanical Modeling and Structural Diagenesis

Rijken, Peggy, Holder, Jon, Olson, Jon E., Laubach, Stephen E.

GCAGS Transactions

...Predicting Fracture Attributes in the Travis Peak Formation Using Quantitative Mechanical Modeling and Structural Diagenesis Rijken, Peggy, Holder...

Fracture Tectonics of the Mannville Group and its Relationship to Regional Fracture Systems

V. A. Gregor

CSPG Special Publications

...Fracture Tectonics of the Mannville Group and its Relationship to Regional Fracture Systems V. A. Gregor 1994 417 418...

Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture Networks in Three Dimensions Utilizing Massively Parallel Computing Resources

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

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... than the analytical solution. Figure 2 shows a comparison of the GEOS simulation for a propagating fracture in the toughness-dominated regime...

Extended Abstract: Microseismic Monitoring During Shale Field Development

Peter M. Duncan MicroSeismic, Inc., Houston, TX

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... Microseismic monitoring has become an important facilitator to the development of shale fields. As many as 10% of the hydraulic fracture treatments performed...

Carbonate Reservoirs of the Bashkiro-Vizean of the Perm Kama Region

I. A. Bykova

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... are present in some places. Conditions of sedimentation were determined by an extremely unstable hydrodynamic regime of the marine basin. For the area...

Abstract: Faulting, Fracturing and In-Situ Stress Prediction In Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: a Finite Element Approach, by F. Beekman and J. D. van Wees; #90933 (1998).

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Fracture and In-Situ Stress Characterization of the Unayzah-B/C Tight Gas Reservoir, South Haradh, Saudi Arabia, Ameen, Mohammed S.; MacPherson, Keith, #90100 (2009)

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Abstract: An Integrated Study of Basement Rocks in the Bayoot Field, Say’Un-Masila Basin, Yemen, by Ann Murray, Philip W. Whiteley, Mohammed Taha, Dave W. Montgomery, Joanna McKidd, Clive M. Simpson, and Ian G. Anderson; #90105 (2010)

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Using Microseismicity to Understand Subsurface Fracture Systems and Increase the Effectiveness of Completions: Eagle Ford Shale, TX

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Reconstructing Basin Overpressure and Geomechanical History to Explain Observed Natural Fracture Patterns, Cleveland Basin, UK

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Integrated Analysis of Borehole Microseismic, Completion and Production Data to Characterize Reservoir Depletion and Determine Infill Well Spacing in Tight Sands

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Impact of Crossflow Among Fractures in Multiply Fractured Horizontal Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs

Yawen Liu, Iraj Ershaghi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... flow. Instead of entering the boundary effects phase early, the fracture network favors higher accessible hydrocarbons and dominates the flow regime...

Abstract: Integrated Analysis for Fracture Identification During Hydraulic Fracturing; #90224 (2015)

Alice Guest, Estelle Rebel, Sean M. Bailly, Jelena Kostadinovic

Search and Discovery.com

... regime in its surrounding. By separating the data according to the injection time, we separate the events that are not related to the hydraulic fracture...

Exploring Shallow Prospects in the Iliran Basement High, South Sumatra Basin

Didit A. Firmansyah, Aziz Rifai, Sinto Yudho, Asril Kamal, R.M.I. Argakoesoemah

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... 3). In the Late Miocene, subduction of the IndoAustralia plate beneath the Eurasian plate caused a compressional regime in Sumatra. This resulted...

Geomechanical Wellbore Imaging: Key to Managing the Asset Life Cycle

Colleen Barton, Daniel Moos

AAPG Special Volumes

...-faulting regime, whereas well B is in a normal-faulting stress state.Figure 20 shows Kamb contours of the poles to fracture planes intersected by two study...

Formation Evaluation of Type-1 Fractured Basement Rocks Using Borehole Data

Adriaan A. Bal, Javier Franquet, Stephen Dymmock, Robert Maddock, Glen Palamountain, Ali Baradi, Dinah Pantic, Fermín Fernández-Ibáñez

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...-horizontal highly-productive fracture zone is difficult to discern from the image alone. Granite is under an overthrust stress regime (Wybon et al 2004...