Fracture pattern development has been a challenging area of research in the Earth sciences
for more than 100 years. Much has been learned about the spatial and temporal complexity …

Well-developed natural fractures in the tight gas conglomerate reservoirs of the
northwestern Sichuan Basin, China, are proved to greatly contribute to the porosity and …

Spatial arrangement is a fundamental characteristic of fracture arrays. The pattern of fault
and opening-mode fracture positions in space defines structural heterogeneity and …

Core data from various North American basins with the support of limited amounts of data
from other basins around the world have shown in the past that process speed or delivery …

We present new techniques that overcome limitations of standard approaches to
documenting spatial arrangement. The new techniques directly quantify spatial arrangement …

In the Keshen gas field in the northern Tarim Basin, the main production interval is the ultra-
deep (> 6000 m), ultra-high pressure Lower Cretaceous Bashijiqike Formation …

Outcrop studies are essential for understanding subsurface fractures, because some key
attributes such as length and height distribution cannot be measured using wellbores …

Understanding fracture network variation is fundamental in characterising fractured
reservoirs. Simple relationships between fractures, stress and strain are commonly assumed …

The deeply buried carbonates in the Sinian Dengying Formation are one of the crucial
hydrocarbon exploration targets in the central Sichuan Basin of China, and are …

Reservoir quality in tight fractured carbonate rocks is controlled by the fracture properties,
the tectonic origin of fractures, the relationship of fractures to other sedimentary features …