Shale formations show obvious anisotropic characteristics in their mechanical properties due to pronounced bedding planes and natural fractures. This anisotropic behavior generally creates complex fracturing networks and is crucial to gas shale stimulation. Although much research has been done to study the anisotropic compression behaviors of shale with static and quasi-static strain rates, the...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Study of Cyclic Fracturing in Vertical CBM Wells Ting Li and Ji-fang Wan Hubei Cooperative Innovation Center of Unconventional Oil and Gas, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, P.R China Petroleum Engineering College of Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, P.R China Key Laboratory of Drilling and Production Engineering for Oil & Gas, Hubei Province, Wuhan 430100, P.R China Mechanical...

Lowto ultralow-permeability formations require “special” treatments/stimulation to make them produce economical quantities of hydrocarbon, and at the moment, multistage hydraulic fracturing (MSHF) is the most commonly used stimulation method for enhancing the exploitation of these reservoirs. Recently, the slotdrill (SD) completion technique was proposed as an alternative treatment method in su...

The thickness of the free gas column below the base of the gas hydrate stability zone is a proxy for the pore pressure in the free gas bearing sediments underneath. In the study area the pore over-pressrues derived under this assumption range between 0 and 1430 kPa ± 30% which appear to be the typical maximum over-pressure that the gas hydrate sediments can withstand before hydro-fracturing occ...

supply security of energy is one of the main challenges of industrialized countries in recent decades. also, it has been noted that in recent years other countries like new emergence asian countries and latin american countries, have understood the role and importance of energy. however, oil and gas have more importance for numerous reasons such as convenience availability, high thermal value a...

Researchers have recently realized thatsilty laminas are very developed in naturally fractured continentalsedimentary formations in the Ordos Basin(China). Studies have shown that silty laminas are significant to improve the physical properties and gas storage capacity, and the natural fractures interact with the hydraulic fractures to maximize the fracture network during hydraulic fracturing. ...

Brittleness is important in the evaluation of fracturing ability shale reservoir and has a significant impact on gas exploration development. This paper discusses characteristics controlling factors brittleness continental Da’anzhai Member Ziliujing Formation Lower Jurassic age northeast Sichuan Basin. Continental lithofacies their associations were grouped into four main rock types: clayey sha...

BACKGROUND The economic value of unconventional natural gas resources has stimulated rapid globalization of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, natural radioactivity found in the large volumes of "produced fluids" generated by these technologies is emerging as an international environmental health concern. Current assessments of the radioactivity concentration in liquid waste...