Since the beginning of the US shale gas revolution in 2005, the development of
unconventional oil and gas resources has gathered tremendous pace around the world …

Spurred by the advanced technologies, mainly including horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing, shale gas exploration has grown significantly over the past few decades. Upon …

We present a fully implicit formulation of coupled flow and geomechanics for fractured three-
dimensional subsurface formations. The Reservoir Characterization Model (RCM) consists …

We developed a hydraulic-fracturing simulator that implicitly couples fluid flow with the
stresses induced by fracture deformation in large, complex, 3D discrete-fracture networks …

In this paper, an integrated discrete-element-method (DEM)/computational-fluid-dynamics
(CFD) numerical-modeling work flow is developed to model proppant embedment and …

Artificially created fracture networks with sufficient fracture conductivities are essential for
economic production from shale reservoirs. Fracture conductivity can be significantly …

Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are two enabling technologies to create a shale
gas reservoir. For the created reservoir scale, we define shale blocks between hydraulic …

The fracture-permeability behavior of Utica shale, an important play for shale gas and oil,
was investigated using a triaxial coreflood device and X-ray tomography in combination with …

Field data have shown the decline of fracture conductivity during reservoir depletion. In
addition, refracturing and infill drilling have recently gained much attention as efficient …

The interpretation of microseismic data was initially focused on hydraulic fracture length and
height, providing an important measurement to calibrate planar fracture propagation models …