Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing

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InTech, Chapters published May 17, 2013. 1070 pages. Hard cover. — ISBN 978-953-51-1137-5 Первоисточник: http://www.intechopen.comThis book comprises the proceedings for the International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing (HF2013) which was held 20-22 May 2013 in Brisbane, Australia. The conference goal was to advance hydraulic fracturing technology that is effective in its purpose and sustainable in its impacts on communities and environments by bringing together hydraulic fracturing experts not only from the petroleum industry, but also from other application areas of hydraulic fracturing such as mining and geothermal energy production. Topics include hydraulic fracturing of naturally fractured formations, well completions and fracture initiation, induced seismicity, experimental investigations, and coupled modelling. Beyond this mix of traditional hydraulic fracturing research topics, this book includes papers on applications in mining and also on regulations, risk, and communities.Contents:Fracturing fluids Fracturing fluid componentsFractures and fracturing - hydraulic fracturing in jointed rockFive things you didn’t want to know about hydraulic fracturesEGS — goodbye or back to the future 95Understanding hydraulic fracture growth, effectiveness, and safety through microseismic monitoringDevelopment of fracture networks through hydraulic fracture growth in naturally fractured reservoirsHydraulic fracture propagation across a weak discontinuity controlled by fluid injectionEffect of flow rate and viscosity on complex fracture development in UFM model Hydrochemical and hydrogeological impact of hydraulic fracturing in the Karoo, South Africa Regulatory nirvana for hydraulic fracture stimulationHow can understanding community concerns about hydraulic fracturing help to address them?Numerical study of interaction between hydraulic fracture and discrete fracture networkHydraulic fracturing in formations with permeable natural fracturesInjection modeling and shear failure predictions in tight gas sands — a coupled geomechanical simulation approachThe role of natural fractures in shale gas productionDo perforated completions have value for engineered geothermal systemsDifferentiating applications of hydraulic fracturingInitiation and breakdown of an axisymmetric hydraulic fracture transverse to a horizontal wellboreHydraulic and sleeve fracturing laboratory experiments on 6 rock typesMicroseismic monitoring developments in hydraulic fracture stimulationBlue shift in the spectrum of arrival times of acoustic signals emitted during laboratory hydraulic fracturingA numerical investigation of fault slip triggered by hydraulic fracturingNumerical simulation of hydraulic fracturing in heterogeneous rock: the effect of perforation angles and bedding plane on hydraulic fractures evolutionsQuantitative evaluation of completion techniques on influencing shale fracture ‘complexity’Modeling of proppant permeability and inertial factor for fluid flow through packed columnsA new approach to hydraulic stimulation of geothermal reservoirs by roughness induced fracture openingFracture network connectivity — a key to hydraulic fracturing effectiveness and microseismicity generationFluid-driven fracture in a poroelastic rockPressurization of a pkn fracture in a permeable rock during injection of a low viscosity fluidModified formulation, ε-regularization and the efficient solution of hydraulic fracture problemsThe geomechanical interaction of multiple hydraulic fractures in horizontal wellsNumerical simulation of sequential and simultaneous hydraulic fracturingThree dimensional forms of closely-spaced hydraulic fracturesThe xfem with an explicit-implicit crack description for hydraulic fracture problemsAn abaqus implementation of the XFEM for hydraulic fracture problemsStress intensity factor determination for three-dimensional crack using the displacement discontinuity method with applications to hydraulic fracture height growth and non- planar propagation pathsSecondary fractures and their potential impacts on hydraulic fractures efficiencyImportance of fracture closure to cuttings injection efficiencyThe fate of injected water in shale formationsThree-dimensional numerical model of hydraulic fracturing in fractured rock massesTesting and review of various displacement discontinuity elements for lefm crack problemsThe impact of the near-tip logic on the accuracy and convergence rate of hydraulic fracture simulators compared to reference solutionsHydraulic fracturing mine back trials — design rationale and project statusMonitoring and measuring hydraulic fracturing growth during preconditioning of a roof rock over a coal longwall panelEstimation of the impact of mining on stresses by actual measurements in pre and post mining stages by hydrofracture method–a case study in a copper mineAn efficient and accurate approach for studying the heat extraction from multiple recharge and discharge wellsThermal effects on shear fracturing and injectivity during CO2 storageScale model simulation of hydraulic fracturing for egs reservoir creation using a heated true-triaxial apparatusComparison of hydraulic and conventional tensile strength testsFormation fracturing by pore pressure drop (laboratory study)Optimizing hydraulic fracturing treatment integrating geomechanical analysis and reservoir simulation for a fractured tight gas reservoir, Tarim basin, ChinaInvestigation of hydraulic and natural fracture interaction: numerical modeling or artificial intelligence?