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Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks

By Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot , Wen Chen , Christian La Borderie , Thierry Reess , Olivier Maurel , Franck Rey-Berbeder , Antoine de Ferron

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Year
2016
ISBN
1848217102, 9781848217102
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5938484 bytes)
Series
FOCUS Civil Engineering and Geomechanics Series
Edition
1
Pages
130\133
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-12-08 15:39:21
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Description

This book presents a new fracturing technique that should be considered as a potential alternative, or a companion technique, to hydraulic fracturing of tight gas reservoirs and low permeability rock masses. As opposed to hydraulic fracturing which generates a few numbers of large cracks, electro-hydraulic fracturing induces diffuse micro-cracking and fragmentation of rocks. Laboratory tests demonstrate that increases of permeability by two orders of magnitude can be reached, without major cracking in tested specimens. This book discusses the principles of this new technique, reports experiments which have been developed is order to prove the concept and finally describes the numerical model from which the potentialities of this technique in representative reservoir conditions can be assessed.

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