Simulating hydraulic fracturing in real fractured rock - Overcoming the limits of Pseudo3D models

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 507-521

  Nagel, Neal ^a   Gil, Ivan ^a   Sanchez Nagel, Marisela ^a   Damjanac, Branko ^b  

^a Itasca Houston Inc   (United States)

^b ITASCA CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELS; FLUID INJECTIONS; FLUID VISCOSITY; FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; FRACTURE GROWTH; FRACTURED ROCK; FRACTURING SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; INDUSTRY NEEDS; INJECTION RATES; MATRIX BLOCKS; NATURALLY-FRACTURED FORMATIONS; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SHEAR FAILURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; SHEAR FLOW;

HYDRAULIC TOOLS;

EID: 79959406788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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