Damage and plastic deformation of reservoir rocks: Part 2. propagation of a hydraulic fracture

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1711-1732

  Busetti, Seth ^a,b,c   Mish, Kyran ^a,b,c   Hennings, Peter ^a,b,c   Reches, ZE'Ev ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Subsurface Group Inc Texas   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELASTICITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING;

DAMAGE PROPAGATION; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; DYNAMIC SOLUTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FRACTURE COMPLEXITY; FRACTURING PROCESS; GEOMETRIC COMPLEXITY; INJECTION PRESSURES;

FRACTURE;

BOREHOLE; COMPLEXITY; DAMAGE; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; RESERVOIR ROCK; RHEOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866869322     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/02011211011     Document Type: Article

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