Ultrafast Hydraulic Fracturing Model for Optimizing Cube Development

Egor Dontsov, Andrew Bunger, Bradley Abell, Roberto Suarez-Rivera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...eters are such that 𝜏 and 𝜙 fall into the 𝑀 regime (i.e., viscosity-storage regime), then fracture toughness is negligible compared to fluid viscosity and ther...

Design and Function of Oil and Gas Traps

W. H. Roberts

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Moreover, it honors all factual observations made around oil and gas d posits. Very simply, the most important function of a trap is to leak water...

Using Microseismicity to Identify and Verify Increased Fracture Complexity during Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations; #41501 (2014)

Ted Urbancic, Adam Baig, Ken Kocon, Krystal Tremblay

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...Using Microseismicity to Identify and Verify Increased Fracture Complexity during Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations; #41501 (2014) Ted Urbancic, Adam...

Cleat, Fracture, and Stress Patterns in the Piceance Basin, Colorado: Controls on Coalbed Methane Producibility

Carol M. Tremain, Roger Tyler

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...Cleat, Fracture, and Stress Patterns in the Piceance Basin, Colorado: Controls on Coalbed Methane Producibility Carol M. Tremain, Roger Tyler 103...

Fracture Permeability and High Initial Water Cut in a Carbonate Gas Reservoir: ABSTRACT

Richard P. Major

AAPG Bulletin

...Fracture Permeability and High Initial Water Cut in a Carbonate Gas Reservoir: ABSTRACT Richard P. Major 1985 282 282 69 2. (February) Waveland field...

Discrete Fracture Network Simulation of Production Data from Unconventional Wells

Thomas Doe, Chunmei Shi, Clifford, Knitter, Cristian Enachescu, Stefan Rohs

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... regime and no end time for fracture flow that would indicate fracture length. For simple, finiteconductivity hydraulic fractures, the fracture half...

Interpreting Inter-Well Poroelastic Pressure Transient Data: An Analytical Approach Validated with Field Case Studies

Brendan Elliott, Ripudaman Manchanda, Puneet Seth, Mukul M. Sharma

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... shown to reflect the geometry of propagating fractures. Interpretation of such data can be used to estimate fracture parameters such as azimuth, length...

Vein Formation in Cretaceous Carbonates in the Laramide Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt of Eastern Mexico

H. Ferket, R. Swennen, S. Ortuo-Arzate, M. C. Cacas, F. Roure

AAPG Special Volumes

..., The evolution of a model trap in the central Apennines, Italy: Fracture patterns, fault reactivation and development of cataclastic rocks in carbonates...

Controls on the Trap Integrity of the Skua Oil Field, Timor Sea

A. Gartrell, M. Lisk, J. Underschultz

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of hydrocarbon migration into the trap. Regional and Generic Implications The results highlight the ability of fault and fracture networks formed...

Estimating Stage-by-Stage Reservoir and Fracture Properties Using the Post-Fracture Pressure Decay Technique

Wannees Alkhayyali, Mei Han, Christopher R. Clarkson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Estimating Stage-by-Stage Reservoir and Fracture Properties Using the Post-Fracture Pressure Decay Technique Wannees Alkhayyali, Mei Han, Christopher...

Height Growth in Layered Unconventional Reservoirs: The Impact of Formation Moduli, Interfaces and In-situ Stress

Qian Gao, Ahmad Ghassemi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... scheme is crucial to accurately predict the behaviors of hydraulic fractures, especially for fracture propagation in viscosity-dominated regime where...

Enhanced Recovery from A Tight Gas Sand Through Hydraulic Refracturing: Codell Formation, Wattenberg Field, Colorado

T.J. Birmingham, D.M. Lytle, R.N. Sencenbaugh

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... travel parallel to or within local natural fracture networks, which display both east-west and north-south orientations, and are area-specific...

ABSTRACT: North Africa … Mediterranean Present-day Stress Field Transition: Implications for Fractured Reservoir Production; #90016 (2003)

William Bosworth

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...-push in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean basins. Earthquakes indicate that the stress regime is predominantly that of strike-slip faulting. Along...

Geomechanical evaluation of Permian unconventional resources: Chucking out “brittleness“

Dave Cannon

West Texas Geological Society

... a dangerous trap resulting in underperformance and missed opportunities. The rise of petroleum geomechanics as part of a geologist’s toolbox has caused...

Abstract: The Prediction of Permeability Enhancing Fracture Patterns within Natural Gas Reservoirs Based on Outcrop Characterization Near Normal Faults; Wind River Basin, Wyoming, by Hutch Jobe, Randy Herr, and Paul MacKay; #90039 (2005)

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... on the well performance. The mega fracture/fault systems serve as the main conduit for hydrocarbon charging of the trap reservoir block. The smaller...

Abstract: En-Echelon Fracture Growth Behaviour Associated with Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations as Determined from Stress-Strain Analyses of Microseismicity; #90172 (2014)

Sheri Bowman, Ted Urbancic, Adam Baig

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... the background regime to which the events are responding and, for the case of hydraulic fracture stimulations, the effective conditions related...

A Semi-Analytical Modeling Approach for Hydraulic Fracture Initiation and Orientation in Shale Reservoirs

Andreas Michael, Ipsita Gupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...A Semi-Analytical Modeling Approach for Hydraulic Fracture Initiation and Orientation in Shale Reservoirs Andreas Michael, Ipsita Gupta URTeC: 3137...

Hydraulic Fracture Closure Revealed Under Controlled Laboratory Conditions

Mohsen Talebkeikhah, Brice Lecampion

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fracture after the fluid injection has stopped depends on the dominant propagation regime. If toughness dominates, the fracture immediately arrests...

Significant Production Improvement of UltraLow Permeability Granitic Reservoirs to Develop Heavy Black Oil, Utilizing Channel Fracturing Technique

Mostafa Mahmoud Kortam, Samir Siso, Nelly Mohamed Abbas, Ahmed Salah, Atef Hesam, Andrea. Cilli, Ahmad Kamar, Fatmaelzahraa Khafagy

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... stress regimes (yellow in in the color map Flag), it was preferred to place fracture in areas with an extensional/normal regime. In strike slip regime...

Application of Simulation of Coupled Hydraulic Fracture Propagation by Implementing Natural Fracture Modeling in Shale Oil Reservoir - A Case Study from Junggar Basin, China

Yanyan Ding, Yu Liang, Tingfeng Zhao, Mingwei Ma, Xingning Huang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Application of Simulation of Coupled Hydraulic Fracture Propagation by Implementing Natural Fracture Modeling in Shale Oil Reservoir - A Case Study...

Experimental Study of Fracture Permeability With or Without Proppants on Vaca Muerta Gas Shale

Kun Su, Martin Santacoloma, Sebastian Estrada, Pierre Barlet, Hamid Pourpak

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Change of the gas permeability of the fracture as a function of pressure gradient can be explained by the change of flow regime inside the fracture...

Abstract: Pre-Tertiary Fractured Reservoirs in the Western Bohai Bay Basin, PR China, by C. Wu; #90937 (1998).

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Investigating Layer Parallel Diagenetic Shortening Using Field Data, Thin Section Analysis, and Analog Models; #41419 (2014)

Nicole Pierson, Caroline M. Burberry

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... in a compressive stress regime parallel to bedding, including both mechanical and chemical changes. Typically, this deformation is not incorporated...

Development of Hydraulic Fracture Hits and Fracture Redirection Visualized for Consecutive Fracture Stages with Fast Time-stepped Linear Superposition Method (TLSM)

Tri Pham, Ruud Weijermars

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... discontinuities smeared over several elements. Solution for fracture propagation in a zero-fluid viscosity regime. Allows for complex competitively propagating...