Effect of borehole size and pressurization rate on hydraulic fracturing breakdown pressure

32nd U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, USRMS 1991

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 191-199

  Haimson, Bezalel C ^a   Zhao, Zhongliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LIME; PRESSURIZATION; ROCK MECHANICS;

BREAKDOWN PRESSURE; FAR-FIELD STRESS; FIELD DATA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY TEST; PRESSURIZATION RATES; PUMPING RATE; RATE EFFECTS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85047093232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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