The combination of horizontal drilling along with hydraulic fracturing has significantly improved the production of hydrocarbon reservoirs and made it possible to extract the relatively impermeable and uneconomical reservoirs. The production rate of oil and gas wells increases proportional to hydraulic fracture aperture or crack opening displacement (COD). This is an important parameter i...

Project HOTSPOT, the Snake River Scientific Drilling Project (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program), tested for deep geothermal resources and examined the petrology of volcanic rocks with three drillholes in the central and western Snake River Plain (western USA). The MH-2 drillhole targeted fractured crystalline and hydrothermally altered basalt in the area of the Mountain Hom...

Results of spectroscopic temperature measurements of the laser-induced plasma generated during percussion drilling with a high power diode-pumped, pulsed Nd:YAG laser are presented. SAE 52100 steel was drilled with varying average powers. Helium and oxygen were each used as the shield gas. Emission spectra were collected with a monochrometer and an intensified charge coupled detector connected ...

Tectonic coal seams are characterized by soft, low permeability and high gas outburst. The traditional control method is the intensive drilling extraction in this seam, which not only large engineering quantity, cost, difficult to form holes efficiency, but also easy induce outburst, a problem for global mine control. To solve problem, controllable shockwave equipment developed author’s team su...

A major issue to overcome when characterizing a deep fractured reservoir is that of data limitation due to accessibility and affordability. Moreover, the ability to map discontinuities in the rock with available geological and geophysical tools tends to decrease particularly as the scale of the discontinuity goes down. Geological characterization data include, but not limited to, measurements o...

The gas in a coal seam is clean energy source, but it also the main cause of accidents during mining mineral resources. There large pressure–relief influx upper and lower adjacent layers 1211 working face Wanfeng Coal Mine Jinhui, Shanxi Province, China. Based on evolution law overburden fractures, collaborative extraction mode “directional drilling gas-conducting fractured zone + staggered bur...

Abstract Using observations and descriptions of drilling cores, image logging, microscopic section, argon ion polishing field emission scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, whole-rock trace element analysis, the study shale reservoir diagenesis space types in Fengcheng Formation Mahu Sag was conducted. Considering contents their ratios (Sr/Ba, V/Ni, Th/U, V/(V + Ni), U/Mo, Sr/Cu), is...

To characterize the coupled hydromechanical behavior of rock fractures, step-rate injection method for fracture in-situ properties (SIMFIP) was conducted with a specialized downhole probe developed by Guglielmi et al. (2014, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-013-0517-1). In June 2019, field campaign carried out near Åre, Sweden, where SIMFIP applied in Collisional Orogeny Scandinavian Caledonides-...