Laboratory Evaluation of Apparent Conductivity of Ultra-Fine Particulates

Janette Cortez-Montalvo, Ubong Inyang, Ron Dusterhoft, DanDan Hu, Maria Apostolopoulou

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is prohibited. Abstract Most current hydraulic fracturing operations are performed in unconventional reservoirs (i.e., tight gas and oil reservoirs...

Selecting an Appropriate Unconventional Play Analog for the Bowland Shale While Acknowledging Operational Constraints in the UK; #11252 (2019)

Bob Harrison, Tamara Oueidat, Gioia Falcone

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... magnitude forced Cuadrilla to suspend hydraulic fracturing operations temporarily. In November 2018, Cuadrilla announced the production of natural gas...

Analysis of Far-Field Drainage from Pilot Experiments in the Bakken

Carlos Miranda, Craig Cipolla, Mike McKimmy

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the lower TF intervals, which can have high water saturation in many areas UBS and LBS act as hydraulic seals, unless natural fractures are present...

Fiber-Optic Monitoring: Stimulation Results From Unconventional Reservoirs

Eric Holley, Nitika Kalia

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to analyze hydraulic fracturing has diversified substantially across unconventional reservoirs in North America. There has also been a diversification...

Field Trial of a Cased Uncemented Multi-Fractured Horizontal Well in the Horn River

Stefan Merkle, Jurgen Lehmann, James Pyecroft

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., alternating from well to well. This manner of hydraulic fracturing allows concurrent operations that maximize operational efficiency and reduce...

An Innovated and Integrated Smart Fracture Calibration Workflow Based on Geophysics and Geology for Deep Shale Reservoirs with Complex Natural Fracture Networks

Chuxi Liu, Jijun Miao, Jianfa Wu, Xuefeng Yang, Cheng Chang, Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... development, the operators must close the gap by gaining more in-depth knowledge regarding their reservoir, natural fractures, and also manmade hydraulic...

Current Scenario and Future Prospects of Shale Gas in India, #80276 (2012)

Tarang Jain, Akash Sharma, Apoorv Agarwal

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... produced for years from shales with natural fractures; the shale gas boom in recent years has been due to modern technology in hydraulic fracturing...

A Novel Workflow from StimPlan to EDFM for Complex Hydraulic Fracture Modeling and Production Simulation

Yukun Yan, Jiayao Deng, Dante Guerra, Wei Yu, Jijun Miao

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... schemes with natural fractures network Conclusions An integrated StimPlan-EDFM workflow was developed through hydraulic fracturing simulator, non...

Our Current Working Model for Unconventional Tight Petroleum Systems: Oil and Gas, #80589 (2017).

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Lawrence Meckel

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... over large areal extent • Natural fracturing enhances tight reservoirs • Inverted systems common • Horizontal drilling and fracture stimulation...

Multiphysics characterization of hydraulic fracture height and parentchild well interference at HFTS-2

Zhishuai Zhang, Kurt Nihei, Jiehao Wang, Zijun Fang, Yunhui Tan, Daniel Emery, Amit Singh, Yuguang Chen, Chang Li, Dimitri Bevc

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... interference during hydraulic stimulation, we investigated the multiphysics surveillance data from the Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site 2 (HFTS-2). Comparison...

Quantifying Changes in Hydraulic Fracture Properties Using a Multi-Well Integrated Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) And Reservoir Simulation Model in an Unconventional Wolfcamp Fm., Midland Basin, West Texas

Arashi Ajayi, Roy Cox, Brian Schmitt, Brendan Elliott

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... approach to evaluate both natural and hydraulic fracturing in mechanical layered rock. Their method provides a full 3D assessment of hydraulic fracture...

Multifocusing 3-D Diffraction Imaging for Dectection of Fractured Zones in Mudstone Reservoirs

Alana Schoepp, Evgeny Landa, Stephane Labonte

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Most production wells are drilled horizontally through the reservoir rock and hydraulic fracturing is applied to increase permeability...

Assessing Hydraulic Fracture System Geometry Using Induced Microseismicity: New Techniques to Characterize Microseismic Events, by Joel H. Le Calvez, Leo Eisner, Kevin Tanner, and Les Bennett; #90041 (2005)

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Layered Modulus Effect on Fracture Modeling and Height Containment

Kaimin Yue, Jon E. Olson, Richard A. Schultz

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... is prohibited. Abstract Oil and gas production from unconventional reservoirs generally requires hydraulic fracturing within layered reservoirs, which...

Field Scale Proppant Transport Simulation and Its Application to Optimize Stimulation Strategy

Rui Kou, George J. Moridis, Tom Blasingame

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...centration is 7.03 PPA. The blockage at the HF-NF interface is also referred as proppant bridging. The occurrence of bridging is usually associated with narr...

3D Modeling and Analysis of the Utah FORGE Reservoir Stimulation

Dharmendra Kumar, Ahmad Ghassemi, Baohua Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...e and pressure record. The findings underscore the significant impact of natural fractures on hydraulic fracturing in EGS and the need to design fracturing job...

The Upper Mancos Shale in the San Juan Basin: Three plays, Conventional and Unconventional

Ronald F. Broadhead

West Texas Geological Society

... wells have been drilled horizontally and stimulated with multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. The Upper Mancos shales are both the source rocks...

AAPG Geoscience Technology Workshop; - Abstracts, #90207 (2014).

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Wolfcamp Hydraulic Fracture Test Site Drained Rock Volume and Recovery Factors Visualized by Scaled Complex Analysis Method (CAM): Emulating Multiple Data Sources (Production Rates, Water Cuts, Pressure Gauges, Flow Regime Changes, and b-Sigmoids)

Ruud Weijermars, Kiran Nandlal, Murat Faith Tugan, Ron Dusterhoft, Neil Stegent

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... field test sites to study the effects of hydraulic fracturing when applied to hydrocarbon reservoirs with multi-well development. One field project...

Enhancing Well Performance and Operator Profit by Optimizing Well Completion Design - A Delaware Basin Case Study

Yanli Pei, Hongjie Xiong

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Introduction Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are two essential techniques to exploit unconventional reservoirs as they provide more access...

Hydrocarbon Traps: Chapter 13: Part III. Processes

Kevin T. Biddle, Charles C. Wielchowsky

AAPG Special Volumes

... that, in addition to a top seal, other effective seals must be present (Figure 13.1). These are the poly-seal traps of Milton and Bertram (1992). Lateral seals...

Reservoir Modeling and Forecasting Shale Multi-Stage Stimulation with Multi-disciplinary Integration

Atif Malayalam, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Coulibaly Aboubakar, Herb Sebastian, Don Woodward

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... during hydraulic fracturing of the subject treatment well using two vertical observation wells that were nearby and within an optimum distance for event...

Geomechanics of Fault Activation and Induced Seismicity during Multi-stage Hydraulic Fracturing

M. Grob, S. Maxwell

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that stimulation of the DFN during a hydraulic fracturing treatment is minor and would not affect the results concerning the interaction with the natural fault...

Numerical Simulation of Inter-Well Fracturing Interference and Fault Reactivation in Layered Shale Based on Discrete Lattice Method

Zhuo Zhang, Jizhou Tang, Yu Fan, Wenya Jiang, Junlun Li, Jian Yang, Fengshou Zhang, Fei Liu, Jian Xu, Gang Hui, Shengnan Chen

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...lip fault reactivation triggered by hydraulic-natural fracture propagation during fracturing stimulations near Clark Lake, Alberta. Energy & Fuels. ht...

Investigation of Barite Scaling During Reaction between Pre-Treated Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid from the Field and Marcellus Shale

Wei Xiong, Christina Lopano, Alexandra Hakala, BJ Carney

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... Monongahela River water as base fluid leads to barite precipitation in hydraulic fracturing fluid (HFF) before injection. Northeast Natural Energy...