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oa Multi Stage Fracking Optimization in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs - A Discrete Numerical Approach
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, First EAGE/SBGf Workshop 2013, Rio de Janeiro - Fractures in Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs, Nov 2013, cp-365-00016
- ISBN: 978-90-73834-59-0
Abstract
In the case of low permeability reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing is a completion strategy that increases the contact between the well and the reservoir that finally will increase the well production. Fracture propagation is a result of the interaction of different physical processes like creation of new surface (fracture toughness), fluid flow in the fracture and porous media and their interaction, fracture geometry, rock elasto-plastic behavior, pre-existing fracture sets and in situ stress.