Numerical Simulation in Hydraulic Fracturing: Multiphysics Theory and Applications

ISBN-13: 9781138029620 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 168 str.

Xinpu Shen; William Standifird

Opis

Hydraulic fracturing is a powerful common technique used to improve the intrinsic permeability of porous rocks in different types of productive reservoirs. It is not only used in development of shale gas, tight oil, and coal bed methane resources, but also in development of geothermal resources etc.
This book presents 3D numerical solutions to the following problems of which hydraulic fracturing is a major content: Optimized value of stage-interval for multistage fracturing and optimized value of well spacing for a pair of zipper-frac wells;
Wellbore trajectory optimization for drilling in naturally fractured shale formation;
Integrated 3-dimensional numerical simulation on Cutting Reinjection (CRI): fracturing, fault reactivation, and seismicity;
Widened mud weight window (MWW) for drilling through naturally fractured reservoirs;
Stress orientation analysis related to pressure depletion and production enhancement measures;
Value of upper-bound of injection pressure window with casing integrity for fracturing shale gas formations. Continuum damage mechanics is one of the theoretical tools used for the 3D description of the initiation and propagation of fractures, both for natural fractures and for fractures induced by hydraulic injection. Consequently, it is a real-3D tool, as compared to those models that use 3D-planar fractures. Cohesive element is also used to simulate the CRI process and to investigate the widened MWW.
This book can be used as a reference textbook to petroleum, geotechnical and geothermal engineers, to senior undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, and to geologists, hydrogeologists, geophysicists and applied mathematicians working in this field. This book is also a synthetic compendium of both the fundamentals and some of the most advanced aspects of hydraulic fracturing technology."

O autorze

Xinpu Shen is a Senior Advisor at Guoyang Technology and Services, and formerly a Senior Advisor at Halliburton Consulting. He received his PhD degree in Engineering Mechanics in 1994 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He was lecturer and associate professor in Tsinghua University from 1993 to 1999. Since May 2001, he was a professor in Engineering Mechanics in Shenyang University of Technology, China. From 1997 to 2004, he worked as post-doctoral research associate in several European institutions, including Politecnico di Milano, Italy and the University of Sheffield, UK, etc. He worked as consultant of geomechanics for Knowledge Systems Inc Houston since 2005 and until it was acquired by Halliburton in 2008. He has been coordinator to 4 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China since 2005. He is inventor (co-inventor) to 10 patents and author (coauthor) to 7 books and 98 related papers among which 30 can be downloaded from OnePetrol.com. William Standifird currently serves as a Director - Global Technical Practices at Halliburton. In this role he is charged with the invention, development and deployment of innovative technologies that support safe and efficient well construction for petroleum assets. William began his career with Schlumberger as a Drilling Services Engineer where he specialized in the application of petroleum geomechanics to deepwater drilling operations. He subsequently joined Knowledge Systems Inc. and rapidly built a global petroleum geomechanics practice which was acquired by Halliburton in 2008. William has over 20 peer reviewed publications, a Performed by Schlumberger Silver Medal and a Hart’s Meritorious Engineering Award. He holds undergraduate degrees in electronics engineering, management science and earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston System.