oa Hydraulic Fracture Optimization Model to Maximize Tight Gas Recovery

As the demand for gas increases worldwide, tight and deep unconventional gas reservoirs are becoming the target for development. However, for such reservoirs the conventional approach of simply fracturing the formation in such reservoirs to hydraulically stimulate the well is inadequate. This is because most currently available commercial software may lack proper optimization tools in them and they might not have taken into consideration several key parameters and realistic design constraints in them.