Some challenges in hydraulic fracturing of tight gas reservoirs: an experimental study
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Abstract
Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to enhance production from low quality oil and gas reservoirs. This approach is the key technique specifically in developing unconventional reservoirs, such as tight formations and shale gas. During its propagation, the hydraulic fracture may arrive at different interfaces. The mechanical properties and bounding quality of the interface as well as insitu stresses are among the most significant parameters that determine the interaction mechanism, i.e. whether the hydraulic fracture stops, crosses or experiences an offset upon its arrival at the interface. The interface could be a natural fracture, an interbed, layering or any other weakness feature. In addition to the interface parameters, the rock types of the two sides of the interface may affect the interaction mechanism. To study the interaction mechanism, hydraulic fracturing experiments were conducted using a true triaxial stress cell on two cube samples of 15 cm. Sample I had a sandstone block in the middle surrounded by mortar, whereas in sample II the location of mortar and tight sandstone blocks were changed. The results indicated that besides the effect of the far field stress magnitudes, the heterogeneity of the formation texture and interface properties can have a dominant effect in propagation characteristics of an induced fracture.
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