BACKGROUND The development of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing methods has dramatically increased the potential for the extraction of previously unrecoverable natural gas. Nonetheless, the potential risks and hazards associated with such technologies are not without controversy and are compounded by frequently changing information and an uncertain landscape of international politics...

explosion has always been regarded as one of the most complicated engineering problems. as a result, many engineers have preferred rather simplified empirical approaches in comparison to extremely complex deterministic analyses. in this paper, however, a numerical simulation based on the combined finite/discrete element methodology is presented for analyzing the dynamic behavior of fracturing r...

A theoretical method is proposed to estimate post-fracturing fracture size and transmissivity, and as a test of the methodology, data collected from two wells were used for verification. This method can be employed before hydrofracturing in order to obtain estimates of the potential hydraulic benefits of hydraulic fracturing. Five different pumping test analysis methods were used to evaluate th...

In classical tsunami-generation techniques, one neglects the dynamic sea bed displacement resulting from fracturing of a seismic fault. The present study takes into account these dynamic effects. Earth’s crust is assumed to be a Kelvin-Voigt material. The seismic source is assumed to be a dislocation in a viscoelastic medium. The fluid motion is described by the classical nonlinear shallow wate...

The self-potential (SP) response during hydraulic fracturing of intact Sierra granite was investigated in the laboratory. Excellent correlation of pressure drop and SP suggests that the SP response is created primarily by electrokinetic coupling. For low pressures, the variation of SP with pressure drop is linear, indicating a constant coupling coefficient (Cc) of -200 mV/MPa. However for press...

Hydraulic fracturing is an effective technique for increasing the productivity of wells producing from low permeability formations. Tracer fracture monitoring technique is near-wellbore zone frctures direct test method that can monitor the height and width of hydraulic fractures in the near-wellbore section. ZeroWash Tracer uses a medium strength ceramic proppant which is mainly used in fractur...

In petrochemical, marine, and other fields, high-concentration solid-liquid two-phase flow induced pipe vibration has always been a problem worthy of attention. Especially when the oil transports flow, researchers have introduced equivalent density into fluid momentum equation to consider influence on pipes with vibrations. This method ignores particle collision accumulation in vibration, which...

The oil and gas (O&G) industry is now as focused on minimizing costs maximizing efficiency just much production. Operators are looking for new cost-effective ways to add profitable assets their portfolio. One such way re-fracture existing wells. There evidence that these wells can be very productive in the Bakken. However, because of factors depletion aging wellbore material, re-fracturing ...