Shale oil is a promising alternative unconventional energy to conventional fossil fuels. Its
exploration and production are critical to improve the present energy consumption pattern …

The hike of hydraulic fracturing in North America and beyond leads to significantly enhanced
hydrocarbon production especially in low-permeability geological formations. Proppant …

After over a decade of innovation in shale gas fracturing theory and engineering technology,
China has established a theoretical and technical system for the development of shallow …

A proppant transport model was proposed to simulate the fluid-granular interactions in rough
narrow fractures. The Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) was used to describe the fluid …

The morphology of rough fractures significantly affects proppant transport in hydraulic
fractures. The fracture roughness is even more critical in proppant transport using …

Hydraulic fracturing technology is one of the important and extensively studied stimulation
methods in rocks with low permeability, and has been widely used in the petroleum industry …

Fundamental understanding of solute transport behaviors in rock fractures is of great
importance to many hydrogeological processes. The fate of fluid-borne solutes is inherently …

Hydraulic fracturing is essential in unconventional oil and gas extraction, with a critical role
in the effectiveness of proppant transport. This study employs Synfrac software to simulate …

The migration and sedimentation behavior of proppant in complex fractures plays a vital role
in the formation of fractures with high conductivity. Most of the existing studies on proppant …

This manuscript introduces a coupled model that simulates the propagation of three-
dimensional (3D) complex fractures and the proppant transport. The model takes into …