The importance of slow slip on faults during hydraulic fracturing stimulation of shale gas reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Americas Unconventional Resources Conference 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 344-352

  Zoback, Mark D ^a   Kohli, Arjun ^a   Das, Indrajit ^a   McClure, Mark ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GAS PERMEABILITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; MICROSEISMIC MONITORING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; RESOURCE VALUATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHALE GAS;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FRACTURES AND FAULTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HYDRAULIC STIMULATIONS; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; RATE AND STATE FRICTION; RELATIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 84866020808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/155476-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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