Weak bedding planes (BPs) that exist in many tight oil formations and shale–gas formations
might strongly affect fracture–height growth during hydraulic–fracturing treatment. Few of the …

Shale formations often consist of multiple weak interfaces between layers, which is easily
opened during hydraulic fracturing treatment and affect growth of fracture height. Fracture …

This paper reviews the equivalent permeability tensor concept for flow in 2D fractured
porous media and adds new fundamental insight from a series of systematic flow …

This paper presents a new workflow comprised of using hydraulic fracture modeling outputs
(effective length, height, and conductivity) for the next step-a discrete fracture flow model …

The perforation will damage the sealing integrity of cement sheath/cementing interfaces
around the hole more or less, especially the debonding of cementing interfaces may lead to …

ABSTRACT A new fracture propagation simulator, based on a time-stepped expansion
(TLSM) of the 2D linear superposition method (LSM), is applied here to study the growth of …

We propose three idealized hydraulic fracture geometries (“fracture scenarios”) likely to
occur in shale oil reservoirs characterized by high pore pressure and low differential in situ …

Through near 3000 horizontal producing wells on University Lands in the Permian Basin, we
have performed a series of case studies to systematically investigate the most critical …

The reservoir drainage around horizontal wells is visualized at high-resolution using a newly
developed analytical streamline simulator based on complex potentials. Drainage contours …

This study expands the high-resolution visualization of the drainage around horizontal wells
using a newly developed analytical streamline simulator. A first case of single synthetic …